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War and Peas		19 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: food and agriculture War and Peas War abroad could hit home in the nation's chemical factories and food-processing plants, the General Accounting Office warned yesterday. The GAO said the lack of federal authority over such facilities makes it impossible to know whether they are sufficiently prepared for potential terrorist attacks. The office recommended that the U.S. EPA and the Department of Homeland Security take joint responsibility for ensuring the safety of chemical plant ...
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Berry Good News		10 Mar 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: food and agriculture Berry Good News Organic advocates have long contended that food grown without pesticides is better for you than chemical-dependent crops. Now comes a new study that backs up the organics argument. Tests of pesticide-free strawberries, blackberries, and corn found that they contain up to 58 percent more polyphenolics, or health-boosting compounds, than conventional crops grown on neighboring plots. Polyphenolics have antioxidant properties and may help protec ...
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

Chickens Coming Home to Roost		27 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Read more about: food and agriculture Chickens Coming Home to Roost It was the ultimate in pork-barrel politics, except it happened to concern chickens. Earlier this month, the U.S. Congress passed its omnibus spending bill -- which included a provision wedged in by Rep. Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) on behalf of Fieldale Farms, a Georgia chicken-processing company that contributed $4,000 toward Deal's election. The provision allows farmers to bill meat, eggs, and dairy products as organic even if the liv ...
Topics: food and agriculture (all these topics)

The Rootworm of All Evil		26 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Rootworm of All Evil In a major win for the biotech industry, the U.S. government yesterday gave Monsanto the green light to sell corn that has been genetically modified to resist rootworm disease, the most significant threat to the crop. The effort to combat rootworm has been the single biggest reason farmers use pesticides, so the decision will be a test case of whether genetically modified crops will bene ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics, US EPA (all these topics)

Greenocide?		24 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Greenocide? A new phrase is raising hackles and fueling environmental debate in the Western U.S.: "rural cleansing." Thought to have been coined by a Washington-state property-rights activist, rural cleansing is taking root as a catchphrase for those who argue that eco-activists are trying to drive rural citizens away from traditio ...
Topics: environmental non-government organizations, food and agriculture, green living, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, West (all these topics)

The Hunger! The Hunger!		20 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
The Hunger! The Hunger! The world's population is growing, yet world hunger is on the wane -- a testament to the success of agriculture. But with the global population expected to increase 50 percent by mid-century, many doubt whether our current food system can continue to provide. The problem isn't the ability to keep producing more food; the problem is the potentially serious ecol ...
Topics: food and agriculture, land degradation, pollution and waste, population (all these topics)

Farm Band-aid		13 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Farm Band-aid Here's another provision to watch out for in the national spending bill: $3.1 billion in disaster assistance for farmers in the wake of this summer's (and, in many places, this winter's) drought. Sounds good -- but if the spending bill is approved, the money will come at the expense of a national conservation program. The brainchild of Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), the Conservation Security Program was app ...
Topics: climate, food and agriculture, politics (all these topics)

One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
One Mississippi, Two Mississippi, Dead Mississippi Six states whose waters feed the lower Mississippi River agreed this week to work together to reduce the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Fertilizers, sewage, and other nutrient-rich pollutio ...
Topics: Arkansas, food and agriculture, Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana, marine life, Mississippi, Mississippi River, Missouri, oceans, rivers and watersheds, solid waste treatment and disposal, Tennessee, Texas, toxics (all these topics)

Have a Heart		12 Feb 2003	Daily Grist

Topics: education, Environmental Working Group, food and agriculture, green living, toxics (all these topics)

Beam Me Up		04 Feb 2003	Daily Grist
Beam Me Up The U.S. food industry is increasingly turning to irradiation to kill deadly bacteria such as E. coli and listeria in meat -- a move environmentalists, food-safety advocates, and others say could amount to leaping from the frying pan into the fire. Irradiation uses high-energy electrons, gamma rays, or X-rays to kill bacteria. Critics say the process depletes vitamins and nutrients and leaves chemical byproducts in f ...
Topics: food and agriculture, health (all these topics)

Liquid Assets		27 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Liquid Assets Saudi Arabia is home to the world's largest oil reserves, but it's desperately short on another, equally precious resource: water. There isn't a river or lake to be found anywhere in the nation, and the only renewable water sources are shallow aquifers refilled by infrequent rains. A growing population, a fondness for showy swimming ...
Topics: climate, energy, food and agriculture, green living, Middle East, population, renewable energy, wildlife (all these topics)

The Fish-scales of Justice		24 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Fish-scales of Justice California Attorney General Bill Lockyer is suing five major grocery store chains to force them to warn customers that tuna, swordfish, and shark may contain dangerously high levels of mercury. In the suit, Lockyer claims that Safeway, Kroger, Albertson's, Trader Joe's, and Whole Foods are violating Proposition 65, which requires companies to provide "clear and reasonab ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, marine life, toxics (all these topics)

Range Bedfellows		16 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Range Bedfellows Energy exploration has been part of Western landscape and culture for decades -- but it seems the thrill of the drill may finally be wearing off. As the Bush administration pushes for further exploitation of Western resources (such as coal-bed methane mining in Wyoming and Montana an ...
Topics: Colorado, energy, food and agriculture, mining and drilling, Montana, New Mexico, North America, politics, ranching, renewable energy, West, Wyoming (all these topics)

Weed Wackos		14 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Weed Wackos The widespread use of Roundup, a common herbicide developed by Monsanto, has caused weeds that are resistant to the chemical to spring up on a half-million acres of agricultural land across the U.S. At fault, scientists say, is the popularity of bioengineered crops that are "Roundup Ready" -- that is, created by Monsanto to be genetically impervious to the herbicide. Together, Roundup and Roundup Re ...
Topics: food and agriculture, GMOs, toxics (all these topics)

Tuna Sandwiched		09 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Tuna Sandwiched Two former government scientists say their superiors shot down years' worth of research on the effects of tuna fishing on dolphin populations because the findings clashed with the policy aims of the Clinton and Bush administrations. Separate research conducted by Albert Myrick and Sarka Southern indicated that dolphins are exposed to dangerous levels of stress by the practice ...
Topics: food and agriculture, marine life, oceans, politics, wildlife (all these topics)

GM's My Anti-nutrient. What's Yours?		08 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
GM's My Anti-nutrient. What's Yours? Genetically modified food could contain excessive amounts of dangerous compounds because of the government's failure to adequately regulate the production of such foods, according to a report being released today by the Center for Science in the Public Interest. The report says the Food and Drug Administration made "obvious errors" in reviewing ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health (all these topics)

Yurok Me Like a Hurricane		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Yurok Me Like a Hurricane The Bush administration is to blame for last fall's die-off of 33,000 salmon along the Klamath River in Northern California, biologists from the state's Department of Fish and Game have determined. They say the fish kill -- the largest ever recorded in the West -- was the result of the administration's ...
Topics: California, fishing, food and agriculture, marine life, politics, rivers and watersheds, US Fish and Wildlife Service, West (all these topics)

The Rain in Lesotho Caused Mainly Lots of Pain		07 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
The Rain in Lesotho Caused Mainly Lots of Pain Rain. Drought. Hailstorms. Tornadoes. Frost. You'd be hard-pressed to name a weather phenomenon that hasn't afflicted the African kingdom of Lesotho in recent times, destroying its crops and leaving one-third of its 2.1 million people on the brink of starvation. Now, many scientists are saying that those people, along with nearly 40 million other Africans fac ...
Topics: Africa, climate, food and agriculture, population (all these topics)

Up the River		06 Jan 2003	Daily Grist
Up the River New Year's Day marked a historic moment in the history of Western water wars -- the first time the federal government exercised its right to decline California's request for more than its allotted shared of water from the Colorado River. Thanks to the U.S. Interior Department, cities and agricultural areas ...
Topics: California, Colorado River, Department of Interior, food and agriculture, green living, rivers and watersheds, water conflicts, West (all these topics)

Hogwash		17 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Hogwash The U.S. EPA unveiled new livestock-waste regulations yesterday designed to keep billions of pounds of unhealthful pollutants out the nation's waterways annually. The rules, which were issued in compliance with a court mandate from a 1989 lawsuit brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council, will require some 15,500 factory farms to obtain government permits to dispose of live ...
Topics: food and agriculture, NRDC, politics, pollution and waste, US EPA (all these topics)

Filling Up Wide Open Spaces		10 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Filling Up Wide Open Spaces Forget about urban sprawl; the new menace facing the U.S. landscape is rural sprawl, according to some experts. In seeking refuge from city life, Americans started by moving to the suburbs; then they started building beyond the suburbs, creating "exurbs"; now, they're gradually expanding into some of the country's most remote a ...
Topics: food and agriculture, placemaking, pollution and waste, solid waste treatment and disposal (all these topics)

Drain, Drain, Go Away		06 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Drain, Drain, Go Away Now, back to typically depressing fare: California's Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board said yesterday that it would extend exemptions on pollution limits for farmers, meaning that pesticides, salts, and other pollutants will continue to drain from agricultural fields into the region's watershed. The exemptions were set to expire on Dec. ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, pollution and waste, toxics, water pollution (all these topics)

The Science of the Lambs		03 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
The Science of the Lambs It ain't easy being a scientist in farm country: Researchers studying the health effects of agricultural pollution say they are being silenced by fearful superiors and harassed by individual farmers, farm groups, and even the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which funds and controls much of the research ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, health, Iowa, Midwest, North Carolina, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Wine, Wine, Wine		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Wine, Wine, Wine Napa Valley, Calif., is known as the heart of U.S. wine country, not exactly as a toxic cesspool. But local environmentalists say soaring wine production in the valley has lead to unhealthy farming practices that pollute the land, place heavy pressures on natural resources, and harm wildlife. The county has passed legislation designed to limit soil erosion ...
Topics: erosion, food and agriculture, placemaking, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics)

Pole Vault		02 Dec 2002	Daily Grist
Pole Vault A plan to dramatically boost the use of biofuels in Poland has been approved by the country's lower house of parliament and is now being heard by its senate. The plan, which is backed by the nation's powerful farm lobby, would mandate that biofuels account for at least 4.5 percent of all domestic fuel sales beginning in 2003. That's well above the 2 percent minimum levels proposed ...
Topics: energy, European Union, food and agriculture, renewable energy (all these topics)

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