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Category Archives: Food
Why We Eat So Much Meat: Beef, Bombs, and Convenience
Why we eat so much meat is a question that keeps coming up, as well it should. The real reason is that…. well to cut to the chase, there are a lot of reasons, big and small, general and specific. … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Food
Tagged beef, distancing, feedlots, fertilizer, food, overproduction
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Golden Rice, soon. Or not.
We have a new E.T.A. on Golden Rice. Well, sort of: the institutes in the Philippines that have been conducting field tests since 2008 say they may be able to submit the needed data for regulatory approval by 2013 in … Continue reading
10 Billion People and Paul Ehrlich’s Taxi
When the U.N. announced its global population projection of 10 billion by 2010 a few days ago, it was hard not to think back on Paul Ehrlich. Prof. Ehrlich was the butterfly researcher whose books and TV appearances scared the … Continue reading
GM Eggplant and Ayurveda in India
India may be the world’s most closely-watched arena for the spread of genetically modified (GM) crops, but it has allowed only one of these crops so far — cotton. Until recently it looked like its first GM food crop would … Continue reading
Blood type: Bt
A new study by toxicologists and obstetricians looks in the bloodstreams of a sample of Canadians for pesticides associated with genetically modified foods (new acronym alert: PAGMF). They studied pregnant women, their fetuses (actually umbilical cord blood after delivery), and … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food
Tagged biotechnology, bt, genetically modified, toxicology
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Staph, Lies and Videotape
A new article in Clinical Infectious Diseases reports on an investigation of staph contamination (Staphylococcus aureus) on CAFO beef, pork, chicken and turkey in grocery stores in 5 US cities. Staph was found on 47% of the meat samples, but … Continue reading
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