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Milkin' It More use of growth hormones would boost sustainability of dairy industry, says study |
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01 Jul 2008 |
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| Posted at 2:00 PM on 01 Jul 2008 Shooting up cows with artificial growth hormones increases the sustainability of the dairy industry, claims a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. "Giving rbST to 1 million cows would enable the same amount of milk to be produced using 157,000 fewer cows," says the study, thus easing the impact that giant dairy-cow operatio ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, air pollution, food, health, industrial ag, news, scientific research, water pollution (all these topics) |
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Aw, Shucks Food prices are high, and so are Big Ag's profits |
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30 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 10:29 AM on 30 Apr 2008 Food prices hitting you hard in the pocketbook? Agriculture giant Archer Daniels Midland feels for you, it really does -- but gee, its profits jumped 42 percent this quarter, so it can't really empathize. ADM's grain-processing division is doing lively business keeping up with the bumper corn crop. And, they'll have you know, high food prices are due to high oil prices, not to the ethanol push. Backing ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, biofuels, business, energy, food, industrial ag, news (all these topics) |
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Send in the Clones Cloned meat and milk just as safe as conventional, says long-awaited FDA report |
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15 Jan 2008 |
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| Posted at 5:05 PM on 15 Jan 2008 In a nearly 1000-page report, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has concluded that food from cloned animals and their offspring "is as safe to eat as that from their more conventionally bred counterparts." The report effectively removes regulatory barriers to cloned food being offered to U.S. consumers, but practical barriers still remain, and it will ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, food, industrial ag, news (all these topics) |
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