Digest: Wild birds cleared, USDA censured, protection from transgenic corn
Bird-flu CSI: It's official — comparison between the UK and Hungarian strains of the avian-flu virus reveals the highest genetic match, much more so than the strains found in wild birds. Press release...
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The ethics of cloning: Most of the op-eds we've seen about eating meat and dairy from cloned animals have tried to appeal to Americans' personal health fears. This one aims for the heart of animal...
View ArticleDigest: Farm aids, cool retailing concept in UK, fake grouper on menus
The age of agri-tourism: Small farms are increasingly diversifying into non-agricultural activities like farm tours, cheese-making classes, and photo safaris. The income from such activities often...
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Not so NAIS: Animal-tracking program is solution to wrong problem
Thanks to Marc R. for calling my attention to the Government Accountability Office's recent report on the National Animal Identification System (NAIS). NAIS, which first saw the light of corner offices...
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Digest – News: Beef recall blossoms, Monsanto farmers to get cheaper crop...
Stop the Topps: Topps Meat has expanded its recall to include 21.7 million pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli. The beef has a "sell by date" or "best if used by date"...
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Digest – News: Bayer uncensured, another beef recall (yawn), fishy...
We seem to have settled into a twice-weekly, midweek+weekend routine for the Digest. If you need to snack between our buffets, plenty of blogs now offer their own pithy links roundups to keep you...
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Digest – News: Answer to Alice Waters mystery, Farm Bill stalls again, avian...
Umbrellas up, chickens — there's a deluge of catch-up links since last weekend's Digesting. O how we hate it when the RSS-feed headlines top 4,000. Alice on the Ameya Preserve: In a Wall Street Journal...
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Digest – Features: The economics of cheap food, beef industry insider...
Feast and famine: It's the end of cheap food as we know it, says the Economist, whose food-price index is now at its highest since it began in 1845, having risen by one-third in the past year. The...
View ArticleDigest – News: PA still mulling “rBST-free” labels, USDA admits impotence,...
Organic milk sales to skyrocket in Pennsylvania: That's the only silver lining in the news that as of Feb. 1, Pennsylvanian consumers won't be able to tell the difference between milk from farms that...
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Digest – News: WSJ says FDA about to approve cloned food
Happy New Year … not: The Wall Street Journal appears to have a scoop that the FDA will rule next week that meat and dairy products from cloned animals are safe to enter the food supply. The article...
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