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U.N. Agency: Serious Pesticide Threat in Former Soviet Union — Naharnet
Seeded on Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:03 AM EDT ()
The EU and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) will spend seven million euros ($9.1 million) over the next four years to help contain the risks in 12 countries in the region, spanning Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
GMO Battle in Boulder Ends With Discontent
Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:38 PM EDT
Since 2008, the Boulder Colorado community has been divided over the issue of planting of genetically modified crops on the approximately 16,000 acres of public land. While the planting of the first GM crop -- corn -- was permitted in 2003, it was not until farmers asked for per …
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FDA Restricts Certain Antibiotics In Animals
Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:24 PM EDT
In the waning days of 2011, the Food and Drug Administration ("FDA") posted a notice in the Federal Register announcing its withdrawal of a 34 year attempt to regulate routine uses of penicillin and tetracycline in animal feed. Tom Philpott over at MotherJones called out the age …
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Fake Meat America Could Love | Mother Jones
Seeded on Fri Mar 16, 2012 4:43 AM EDT (MotherJones.com)
Isn’t it preferable, at least some of the time, to eat plant products mixed with water that have been put through a thingamajiggy that spews out meatlike stuff, instead of eating those same plant products put into a chicken that does its biomechanical thing for the six we …
Central Valley Business Times
Seeded on Tue Feb 21, 2012 7:50 AM EST ()
James Wheaton, an Oakland attorney who is listed as the measure’s proponent, must collect signatures of 504,760 registered voters – the number equal to 5 percent of the total votes cast for governor in the 2010 gubernatorial election – in order to qualify it f …
farmlandgrab.org | New global land rush trampling human rights
Seeded on Wed Feb 8, 2012 5:54 AM EST ()
At least 428 million people in Sub-Saharan Africa rely on the land without holding Western-style legal ownership.
Rootworms Are Eating Their Way Through Bt Corn
Wed Feb 1, 2012 8:00 AM EST
On November 28, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a memo which identified the failure of Monsanto's Bt corn to prevent "unexpected" rootworm damage to the corn crop.
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Latest Resistance Movement: #OccupyNebraska
Mon Jan 30, 2012 8:00 AM EST
There is a growing resistance movement happening all across America. Except this one is taking place in the fields, not in the streets, in the form of herbicide resistant weeds and it has been quietly, but aggressively, growing for years.
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Antibiotics Breed Drug-Resistant Bacteria in Pigs : Discovery News
Seeded on Thu Jan 19, 2012 5:38 AM EST (Discovery.com)
After giving pigs a low-dose of antibiotics for just two weeks, researchers detected a drastic rise in the number of E. coli bacteria in the guts of the animals. And those bacteria showed a large jump in resistance to antibiotics
Beekeepers and Scientists Urge A Ban On Systemic Pesticides
Wed Jan 11, 2012 8:00 AM EST
When will the environmental regulators stop hesitating and start adequately regulating systemic pesticides, is the question on the minds of many beekeepers and independent scientists.
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