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Roundup Ready generics: New opportunities but also new obstacles?
The impending loss of Monsanto's patent on its Roundup Ready soybean in 2014 raises a number of important policy issues in addition to those raised in DuPont's anti-trust case against Monsanto and the opening of an antitrust investigation of Monsanto by the US Department of Justice.
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Antibiotic use in livestock production
A recent news article paraphrased a comment made by a producer of meat animals as, "The effort to ban antibiotic use in animals is led by activists who want to shut down all animal agriculture."
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China takes care of China
It would not be a stretch to assert that Chinese imports have driven the recent growth in soybean production and exports by the US, Brazil, and Argentina. Between 1995 and 2009, Chinese imports of soybeans grew by 1.459 billion bushels (from 0.029 to 1.488 billion) while the rest of the nations of world increased their imports by 0.183 billion bushels (from 1.168 to 1.351 billion).
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Obese drinkers face 'double hit'
Obese women drinking little more than a glass of wine a day have double the risk of liver disease compared with those who are slimmer, experts warn.
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Kern contributes to 'noble cause' of veggies for low-income families
Kern contributes to 'noble cause' of veggies for low-income families
BY COURTENAY EDELHART, Californian staff writer cedelhart@bakersfield.com (mailto:cedelhart@bakersfield.com) | Saturday,...
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Future US soybean exports will be largely determined by China and Brazil
Telling the story of soybean exports over the last 30 years requires a little more work than for corn and wheat. The primary products of soybeans-soybean meal and soybean oil-play a much larger role in exports than do the corresponding products of corn and wheat. As a result, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) tracks production and utilization data for soybean meal and soybean oil separately from unprocessed beans.
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USDA, Justice Dept. set to probe consolidation in agriculture
USDA, Justice Dept. set to probe consolidation in agriculture
By P.J. HUFFSTUTTER
For
40 years, farmer Todd Leake and his family have battled...
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Fixing School Food
By Janet Poppendieck, professor of sociology at Hunter College, City University of New York. She is the author of Sweet Charity? Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement and Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression.
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Every successive decade has left its mark on school food.
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Aftershocks: Psuedo-Tsunamis and food insecurity in Hawai'i
They 'stood fixated on the flat screens, drinks in hand' as real time images of Chilean destruction were quickly followed by an official tsunami warning and a barrage of historic Hawaiian newsreel footage documenting the devastating tidal wave that hit Hilo back in 1947. After ordering an evacuation of coastal areas, the government advised people to stock up on a weeks worth of food.
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Democratic Choice
Biotech technicians neither have the knowledge of gene ecology nor the expertise in multiple disciplines.
After the minister of environment Jairam Ramesh announced a moratorium on Bt brinjal, article after article in the media has denounced the decision, saying such decisions should be left to ‘scientists.’ The issue is however not science vs anti-science. It is reductionist science vs systems science. The moratorium took into account the best of science.
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‘Diet for a Hot Planet’ author has a recipe for eating responsibly
Check out article on Diet for a Hot Planet by MNN writer Sidney Stevens.
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3/11/10 – Mother Nature Network
3/11/10 – Mother Nature Network
‘Diet for a Hot Planet’ author has a recipe for eating responsibly
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Can our brains help us solve conflicts?
From industrial action to curfew battles, conflicts are everywhere. But what does neuroscience say about solving disputes and becoming better negotiators?
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News Day: Up until 1300
Thousands of schoolchildren across the UK are reporting the news for BBC School Report News Day.
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News Day as it happens
Thousands of schoolchildren across the UK are reporting the news for BBC School Report News Day.
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Scrubbing Up: sleeping killers
In this week's health opinion column Scrubbing Up, Professor Tony Leeds warns that our roads are less safe because an obesity epidemic is leading more drivers to fall asleep at the wheel.
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From bikes to banter in N Ireland
Northern Ireland's future journalists cut their teeth on a range of stories for the BBC's School Report 2010.
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Family health action plan offered
Personal action plans are to be offered to families to cut obesity and to encourage healthy eating and more exercise.
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The sleeping killers behind the wheel
In this week's health opinion column Scrubbing Up, Professor Tony Leeds warns that our roads are less safe because an obesity epidemic is leading more drivers to fall asleep at the wheel.
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Mar. 9, 2010: Farm to school efforts double in Minnesota (press release)
The number of Minnesota school districts purchasing fresh food from local farms has more than doubled in the last 15...
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