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  Your link to your ideas doesn't work.

  On Tell USDA to add urban farming to the Ag Census! Deadline is Friday. posted 2 months, 2 weeks ago 5 Responses

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  His article doesn't specify his methods, but Bruce Babcock of Iowa State  here says: "Although agriculture contributes about 6.7 percent of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, it faces no future emissions cap under the House bill."

  On Meat, climate change, and industry tripe posted 3 months ago 1 Response

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  I apologize for beating this to death. (Sorry for the broken link, I should have used tinyurl. I think I've tested the following links.)

  USDA has a program to certify non-hormone treated beef to the EU.  It's described here; rBST isn't listed in Annex A as one of the prohibited hormones.  The press release from the US Trade Rep just says "hormone-treated beef", as does the Wall Street Journal article. Wikipedia has an article on the "beef hormone" controversy which lists 6 hormones, but not rBST.  Monsanto hasn't pushed rBST as a growth hormone, but as a hormone to increase milk production.

  On Vilsack's USDA shakes things up posted 6 months ago 9 Responses

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  I don't get that clear a message from your link. Looks to me as if EU has banned the product rBST, but not the beef from dairy cows treated with it. I've Googled "rBST beef" and not gotten authoritative answers. But  this link (a footnote) has the observation that products from rBST-treated cattle are allowed into both the EU and Canada, even though the hormone itself is banned from EU herds.  (BTW, the Atlantic_Foods link doesn't seem to work.)

  On Vilsack's USDA shakes things up posted 6 months ago 9 Responses

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  I'm confused by your discussion of "rBST beef."  I thought rBST was to stimulate milk production, not muscle growth.  Wikipedia's discussion at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormonal_meat  doesn't mention rBST, but does list 6 banned hormones.

  On Vilsack's USDA shakes things up posted 6 months ago 9 Responses