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 [...]
Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.
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While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding [...]
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, [...]
