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Digest – Commentary: Bee very worried, be Frank, be safe
Take that, you Luddites: In the wake of news that a virus may be to blame for colony collapse disorder in bees, the Gray Lady says that finger-pointing of cellphones and genetically modified crops is a sign of how freaked out we are, "not only about the death of creatures both benign and beneficial to us, but also about technology’s effect
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Digest – News & Commentary: Bee breakthrough, popcorn lung, progressive grocers
Duck! Six days' worth of links coming at you. Yeah, we're playing catch-up on some big news, and it really is 2:15 a.m. NEWS Unraveling the bee mystery: Genetic research on bees has indicated that Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV) may be the cause of Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) in American bees.
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Bees and a berry farm
Helping native bees Like many other science-related programs, KQED TV's Quest has done a segment on bees this year. Quest's segment focuses on the work of two University of California researchers, one who is trying improve honeybee genetics through selective breeding
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Digest – features: Farmers’ defense fund, culprit emerging in bee collapse
FEATURES The right to sell local: Backed by the Weston A. Price Foundation, a nonprofit Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund has been launched to protect the rights of farmers to provide meat, eggs, raw dairy products, vegetables and other foods directly to consumers. (Press
Digest – Features: Kolbert buzz on CCD, lessons from New Zealand
Queen Bee: Finally, Dairy Queen's favorite magazine ventures into the food-politics field with a terrific first-person essay on the crisis in beekeeping, by no less than climate-change expert and author Elizabeth Kolbert (who shows off her back-yard bee colony in a audio
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Digest – Features & blogsnacks: The rise and fall of bottled water, eco-kosher & beekeeping booms
FEATURES Water torture: Fast Company, of all publications, jumps on the anti-bottled-water bandwagon with an excellent look into how "a whole industry grows up around supplying us with something we don't need."
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Digest – News & Commentary: Irradiation, more cracks in China, the Arcadian philosophy
NEWS Are you listening, FDA?: The Produce Marketing Association says it supports the irradiation of produce, but believes it should be labeled and that changing the label to "cold pasteurized" will only "confuse the public and could even be perceived as misleading.” (Press
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Digest: Bee investigation continues, subsidy recipients bared, track your fruit
NEWS Death, where is thy sting: This excellent update on the search for the cause of colony collapse disorder in bees says that neonicotinoids have probably been ruled out, cell phone signals are laughed at, and most signs are pointing to a biological pathogen or parasite. (Los
Digest: China condemns ex-head of food agency, bees’ needs, Swift & Co. acquired
NEWS U.S. FDA head very glad he is not Chinese: China has sentenced the former head of its food and drugs agency to death for corruption. The sentence, which could still be reduced on appeal, reflects the weight China's top leaders are giving to the issues of corruption and food safety as they grapple
Digest: FDA gets food safety czar, rural broadband $ misused, honeybee update
Note: The Digest is going to be published every other day for a bit until we figure out how to better balance our paid and unpaid commitments. NEWS Melamine crisis & FDA developments: That new czar smell: The FDA has appointed a new food safety czar — Dr. David Acheson, chief medical officer
Digest: Tainted pork not recalled, Australia gets rain, tuna protected
TOP NEWS Enjoy your pork product!: The feds have decided that even though pet food spiked with melamine has probably killed hundred of animals, and that pigs who ate the product should be quarantined and slaughtered, there's no need to worry about the few that have entered the food chain already. The
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Digest: Bee conference, MickeyD’s makes Greenpeace, pass the chuck
"Mad bee disease"?: About 60 scientists are sharing their early findings regarding "colony collapse disorder" in bees. They're focusing on the most likely suspects: a virus, a fungus or a pesticide, particularly the neonicotinoids group banned in France for causing what the French called "mad bee disease."
