Current threads on GE Corn
1. A study sponsored by the Austrian Ministries for Agriculture and Health found that mice fed a genetically engineered corn developed by Monsanto Company produced fewer offspring than those fed conventional corn.
Read the full story by Ken Roseboro, ed., the Organic and Non-GMO Report, December 2008 via the Organic [...]
It looks as if the original rumors were true. Former Iowa governor and one time presidential hopeful Tom Vilsack was reported to be named Obama’s Secretary of the USDA. It was reported earlier that Vilsack was eliminated from the short list; apparently he survived.
This, much like the newly designated Secretary of Education, may not rest [...]
Posted by Tom Philpott at Grist
http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/6/103417/969?source=daily
California’s Proposition 2 — deftly profiled by Carol Ness — passed in a landslide on Tuesday.
The new law is simple and hardly earth-shaking; it requires that “calves raised for veal, egg-laying hens, and pregnant pigs be confined only in ways that allow these animals to lie down, stand up, [...]
