Bills to support raw-milk production and to protect farmers from GMO patent-holders are on their way to the California legislature.
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Digest - Commentary: Obama’s and Clinton’s Big Ag donations, pro-GMO, it’s baaack
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - News: EU ponders Bt corn, California raw-milk battle, USDA shills for Monsanto
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: GMO comment war, piling on Andrew Martin, sweet corn blues
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: Monsanto reverse-engineered, organic farmtown, fishing compact
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Pharmaceutical rice stirs little dust in Kansas
A frustrated Dan Nagengast, executive director of the Kansas Rural Center, said after a recent forum on pharmaceutical crops that opponents needed to take the fight somewhere else.
Some 35 to 40 people attended the forum in Topeka on Nov. 14, which provided a pile of handouts, but it got little press and essentially no public […]
Digest - News: AgSec threatens Farm Bill veto, farmworkers win pesticide lawsuit
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
Digest - Commentary: Tesco to open in poor neighborhoods, Monbiot on biofuels, GMO warriors
Editorials and op-eds about sustainable agriculture (or its opposite) from newspapers and websites big and small.
Digest - Features: The ABCs of GM foods, Alice as the Sustainable Kitchen Fairy, clean-food catastrophe
In-depth, offbeat, or thought-provoking features about aspects of SOLE food, from eating locally to farms marketing to methods of food preservation.
Digest - Commentary & Blogs: Immigration bill, Alice Waters on “The View,” annals of pork
Posts by bloggers at both personal and nonprofit sites that you won’t want to miss.
Digest - News: Beef recall blossoms, Monsanto farmers to get cheaper crop insurance, bird flu in Canada
Breaking news and developments, such as contaminated-food outbreaks, Farm Bill milestones, and how the farming community is faring around the world.
File under “We should have thought of this!!”
Artifacts from the Future, the back page of Wired’s July issue:
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While all the wacky fruits and veggies seem plausible, I wonder at the inflationary prices. Peak oil, anyone?
Kudos to creator Patrick di Justo. I’m as green with envy as those Cinna-dels, the "only GM apple that expresses both cinnamon and […]
Digest - News: Monsanto patents attacked, Taiwan “leans” against U.S. pork
A round-up of the most important news & commentary regarding SOLE- and anti-SOLE food issues, farming, policy, etc. that we think Ethicurean readers will want to know about.
Digest - Features: transgenic animal rules, shrimp seeking sustainability
DNA deliberations: Although transgenic corn, soy and cotton cover the nation, rules governing transgenic animals have yet to be developed. The FDA has not committed to a date for a set of rules, but seems to be narrowing its focus. The uncertainty is a problem for ‘breeders’ of transgenic animals, like the company with a […]
Jack Heinemann on the risks of GMO’s in Australia and New Zealand
The issues surrounding food production in Australia are so overwhelmingly large and urgent that it’s hard to pause for a moment and think carefully, weighing the risks and rewards of actions that overlap between complex fields of study and competing interests. There are lists now of which Australian cities are likely to run out of […]
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