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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Sustainable biotech crops -- solution or oxymoron? Industry report touts potential for biotech crops to combat climate change	Meredith Niles	30 Jul 2008	Gristmill
I am always a sucker for a catchy sounding report -- like the one the World Business Council for Sustainable Development released last week: 'Agricultural Ecosystems: Facts and Trends.' It had it all: the noble sounding 'Council,' the association between agriculture and ecosystems, and the appeal to my inner science-geek with words like 'facts' and 'trends.' I printed it out enthusiastically and got out my highlighter, ready to read all of the fascinating new insig ...
Topics: agriculture, climate, Department of Agriculture, GMOs, greenhouse-gas emissions, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Old MacDonald had a farm bill The good, bad, and ugly in our national five-year agricultural plan	Guest author	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
This is a guest post from Debra Eschmeyer, marketing and media manager of the National Farm to School Network and the Center for Food & Justice. She works from a fifth-generation family farm in Ohio, where she continues her passion for organic farming by raising heirloom fruits, vegetables, and chickens. ----- We've all noticed higher grocery bills, but did you know Congress passed a $307 billion farm bill in late May that has a much bigger impact on what you ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, GMOs, sustainable ag (all these topics)

Bush names a new USDA chief The former governor of North Dakota loves biofuel and GMOs	Tom Philpott	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill
Speaking yesterday at a gathering of the Grocery Manufacturers Association -- a trade group whose member list reads like a directory of multinational food corporations -- President Bush waxed coy about his new choice for USDA secretary. This afternoon I'm going to name a new Secretary of Agriculture. I'm not going to tell you who it is, because I'm trying to -- [laughter] -- but I think you'll like him. He understands agriculture, of course, and he'll be a good follo ...
Topics: agriculture, biofuels, Department of Agriculture, GMOs, industrial ag, politics (all these topics)

Monsanto tastes defeat Twice in one week!	Tom Philpott	08 May 2007	Gristmill
Monsanto has barreled its way toward dominance over the global seed market with strong-arm tactics and friends in high places. As evidence of the former, the roguish company once threatened to sue me -- then a neophyte blogger with 30 readers -- on the most trivial grounds possible. As for the latter, software monopolist Bill Gates, evidently impressed with the way Monsanto tosses around its market girth, has tapped a former Monsanto exec to help lead his foundation' ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Department of Agriculture, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa		13 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Was It the Cowlick? U.S. federal judge bans sales, planting of genetically modified alfalfa A first-of-its-kind ruling in the U.S. will stop Monsanto's genetically modified alfalfa in its tracks -- for now. Citing the USDA's failure to conduct an environmental impact statement before approving the crop in 2005 and its "cavalier" response to concerns that the franken-falfa could contami ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice		02 Mar 2007	Daily Grist
Carry On My Wayward Gene Kansas could see first commercial crop of human-gene-containing rice A California company is one step closer to growing rice that contains human genes on a commercial scale. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has given a preliminary OK to a plan to sow 450 Kansas acres with the stuff this spring, with 2,750 more acres to come. Ventria Bioscience's three Frankenr ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, Kansas, news (all these topics)

Dude, Where's My Crop? USDA failing to keep track of gene-mod crop experiments		17 Jan 2006	Daily Grist
Dude, Where's My Crop? USDA failing to keep track of gene-mod crop experiments The U.S. Department of Agriculture has failed to adequately monitor thousands of acres of experimental biotechnology crops, according to, um, itself. A two-year internal investigation yielded a report released quietly -- that is to say, buried -- in the days before Christmas. In it, the department's inspector general said the USDA did not f ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs, news (all these topics)

Crop the Insanity USDA to Revisit Rules Governing GM Crops		23 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Crop the Insanity USDA to Revisit Rules Governing GM Crops The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced on Thursday that it will begin revising rules governing genetically modified crops. Several of the proposed revisions sounded like good news to wary enviros. One proposed a wide-ranging environmental impact statement assessing the ecological impact of current regulations, something environmental and consumer groups have be ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals		13 Nov 2003	Daily Grist
Drug Busting Enviros Sue USDA Over Biopharmaceuticals A coalition of green groups and consumer advocates took the U.S. Department of Agriculture to court yesterday in an effort to halt experimental planting of "biopharmaceutical crops," plants genetically engineered to produce medicine. The coalition, which includes Friends of the Earth and the Center for Food S ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, environmental non-government organizations, GMOs, health (all these topics)

Unsafe at Any Seed? A new consumer revolution could change the way we label food		30 Oct 2003	The Gist
There's a tongue-in-cheek ad campaign going on in New York City right now regarding smoking in public places. The ads feature slogans like, "If they ban smoking in airports, people will never fly again," and "If they ban smoking in bathrooms, people will never gossip again." I thought of this campaign when I stumbled across a Reuters article on Tuesday describing opposition to a new l ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, GMOs, green living, politics, United Kingdom, United States (all these topics)

Lack of Interest		26 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Lack of Interest Three months ago, the U.S. Department of Agriculture settled a case against a Texas-based biotechnology company whose genetically modified (GM) feed corn contaminated natural corn and soybeans. The USDA represented the settlement as a sharp crackdown on violators of GM standards -- but in fact, the settlement involved a no-interest $3.5 million government loan, meaning the American people will subsidize the ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

Prodigal Son		09 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Prodigal Son The U.S. Agriculture Department has levied more than $3 million in fines against biotech company ProdiGene for mixing GM corn containing an animal vaccine with soybeans meant for human consumption. The contaminated soybeans were stopped before they reached the market, and the company, which makes pharmaceutical and industrial enzymes and proteins by growing them in GM corn, will pay $2.7 million for the value of ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, GMOs (all these topics)

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