WSU study on potato farming gives organic way a boost
seattletimes.com - July 01, 2010
If you want to grow a bigger potato, organic farming may be the way. The balanced mix of insects and fungi in organic fields does a superior job of keeping pests in check, leading to larger plants, according to researchers at Wash...
Read moreNitrates in water and food may increase womens' thyroid cancer risks
www.environmentalhealthnews.org - June 30, 2010
Long-term exposure to nitrates through food and water may increase a woman's risk of thyroid disease, finds a study of older women in Iowa. Public water supplies contaminated with nitrates increased the risk of thyroid cancer in t...
Read moreAntibiotics in Animals Need Limits, F.D.A. Says
www.nytimes.com - June 29, 2010
Federal food regulators took a tentative step Monday toward banning a common use of penicillin and tetracycline in the water and feed given cattle, chickens and pigs in hopes of slowing the growing scourge of killer bacteria. B...
Read moreMonsanto, Big Brother of the New World Agricultural Order: An Interview With Marie-Monique Robin
www.truth-out.org - June 29, 2010
Award-winning French journalist and filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin is the author of "The World According to Monsanto: Pollution, Corruption and the Control of Our Food Supply" (The New Press) and the creator of the film by the same...
Read moreConsumers are buying into organic farms
www.chicagotribune.com - June 28, 2010
As consumers become increasingly aware of what they eat, they are also taking control of where their food comes from. Some shop at farmers markets. Fewer go out and buy stakes in an organic farm. It's a small trend in Illinois ...
Read moreSupreme Court’s ruling on Monsanto’s GE alfalfa: Who won?
www.grist.org - June 23, 2010
Today, in a 7-1 opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito, the Supreme Court reversed both District Court injunctions, saying that the Court had overreached itself procedurally in halting the plantings. (Both Justices Steven Breyer ...
Read moreHow Frankenfood prevailed in global ag
time.com - June 22, 2010
Few companies spin financial growth out of crop growth better than Monsanto. By making an early, successful R&D-heavy bet on biotechnology, Monsanto transformed itself from an agricultural-chemicals company in an increasingly comm...
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