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Digest: CCD vs. SSDD, food borders awfully insecure, fat-powered initiative
What's the buzz, tell me what's happening: The wires and the blogs are swarming with speculation over yesterday's Independent story suggesting a link between the unexplained bee plague known as "colony collapse disorder" and cell phone signals. Glenn Reynolds at
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Digest: Organic rules changed, irradiation renamed, feed the tank and starve the poor
Bye-bye, organic coffee, sugar, chocolate?: Sam Fromartz reports on a new ruling by the USDA that dramatically changes how non-U.S. farms are certified organic. Previously, only a small percentage of farms in "grower groups" would be randomly inspected, and the group would then police the remainder's
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Digest: Rice with human proteins OK’d, Time celebrates la vida locavore, bee CAFOs
A groaning plateful o' food news today — more than we can possibly eat. Tomorrow's digest gets the leftovers. Averting a shitstorm?: The USDA has greenlighted large-scale cultivation in Kansas of rice that produces human immune system proteins in its seeds. The proteins go into an anti-diarrhea medicine
Digest: Wild birds cleared, USDA censured, protection from transgenic corn
Bird-flu CSI: It's official — comparison between the UK and Hungarian strains of the avian-flu virus reveals the highest genetic match, much more so than the strains found in wild birds. Press release Dept. of About Time: A federal judge
Digest: Food vs. fuel, Midwest movement, cow exodus, local beer
Des Moines Register: A rather terrifying article about the ethanol industry's insatiable demand for corn, which is leading farmers to forgo the soybean rotation that returns much-needed nitrogen
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Digest: Local hero, tater hots, mad Japanese cow, corn winners & losers
Houston Chronicle: Columnist Neal Pierce urges readers to have a "100-Mile Thanksgiving" and explains once again to skeptical Texans why buying local makes sense on many levels. New
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Digest: The crises in rice and corn, beyond-organic gurus, BB fight
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette: very informative article about how badly the discovery of genetically engineered rice hiding in an export shipment has hurt the U.S. rice industry, with Arkansas the biggest loser. (Arkansas grows roughly $800 million worth
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Digest: Organic chains, Bioneers fun guy, from garbage to biogas
Grist: Fast food is going organic — or is the other way around? Either way, it's not as bad as we thought. L.A. Weekly: Finally, an article that
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