Giant salmon will be first GM animal available for eating
London Sunday Telegraph - 6/27/2010.By Louise Gray – Usually Atlantic salmon do not grow during the winter and take three years to fully mature. But by implanting genetic material from an eel-like species called ocean pout that grows all year round, US scientists have managed to make the fish grow to full size in 18 months. |
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Slowed Food Revolution
American Prospect - 6/26/2010.By Heather Rogers – Morse Pitts has been cultivating the same land in New York's Hudson Valley for 30 years. His operation, Windfall Farms, is the very picture of local, sustainable agriculture. From early spring to late fall, the farm's 15 acres are luxuriant with snap peas, squash, mint, kale, and Swiss chard. Its greenhouses burst with sun gold tomatoes and an array of baby greens. Pitts, who is in his 50s and is tall with gray hair, doesn't use chemical fertilizers or pesticides or any genetically modified seeds. He cultivates biodiversity, not just vegetables. |
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Monsanto soybean claims probed by West Virginia
Bloomberg - 6/25/2010.By Jack Kaskey – Monsanto Co., the world’s biggest seed company, is being investigated by West Virginia over possibly misleading growers who were promised improved yields from its new Roundup Ready 2 Yield soybean seeds. |
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After all the recent bad news, how about some good news?
Kennebec Journal - 6/25/2010. By Denis Thoet – There’s bad news all around us: Afghanistan (Why are we there?), Gulf oil spill (When will it end?), wildfires, mud slides, Blagojevich. How about some good news? Good news does not sell newspapers, any cub (anachronism) reporter will tell you. But we do have good news: This year’s growing season is awesome! |
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