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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
How to Feed the World by 2050: Biotech Isn't the Answer
The Atlantic - 3/21/2011.
We don't need to grow more food. Instead, we need to know the world's future population - and what these people will be eating.
Maine farmers lobby for white potato
Kennebec Journal - 3/20/2011.
By Jonathan Riskind <jriskind@mainetoday.com>. MaineToday Media, Washington Bureau Chief. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ignoring the Maine white potato's nutritional qualities, says U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who is helping lead a lobbying effort to preserve the good name and federal standing of a vegetable that proponents say is much more than just another starch.
Our View: Legislature should tweak, not gut, chemical law
Portland Press Herald - 3/20/2011.
Editorial: A political environment created by Gov. LePage is as toxic as some regulated substances.
Towns exempt small farms from limits on selling food
Associated Press - 3/19/2011.
At town meetings this month, residents in the Hancock County towns of Sedgwick and Penobscot passed ordinances that supporters say will help small-scale farming and food processing operations. A state legislator is proposing a law that would give similar exemptions.
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