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Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
Opportunity knocks when it comes to a local food economy
Common Dreams - 2/6/2009.
Community-based agriculture has the potential for creating jobs, developing small business entrepreneurships and keeping precious dollars in the community.
“Directed mutagenesis” heralds next wave of genetic engineering
TreeHugger - 2/5/2009.
The German chemical giant BASF has announced the development of "a new generation of genetically altered crops, by precisely manipulating the plant's own DNA without inserting foreign genes." BASF refers to the genetic manipulation as "directed mutagenesis."
Want strong bones? Eat more greens.
Organic Consumers - 2/5/2009.
A new study funded in part by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) suggests that an alkalising diet may be an important key to reducing bone breakdown, or "turnover," while aging.
Agriculture chief in ‘33 can set example for Obama pick
Kennebec Journal - 2/5/2009.
Barack Obama's selection as secretary of Agriculture, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack, has some big shoes to fill. The last Iowan to serve as head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Henry Wallace, was by far the greatest secretary of Agriculture in our nation's history.
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