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Topic: Genetically Modified Organisms
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The Circle Bastiat
Why we're paying more for corn
Thanks to government subsidies supporting a specific type of corn farm, land value is increasing, and prices are going up. The same is true of other federally supported crops.
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How genetically engineered caterpillars spin silk stronger than steel
A research team has genetically altered silkworms to spin spider silk proteins, resulting in a fiber that is stronger than steel that can also be mass produced.
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Letters to the Editor – Weekly Issue of February 14, 2011
Readers write in about the book "O: A Presidential Novel" with a defense for O's elitism, the perils of genetically modified food, and the need to rethink gun control.
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Control over your food: Why Monsanto's GM seeds are undemocratic
Large biotech agribusinesses like Monsanto control much of the global seed market with genetically modified (GM) crops. This centralization of GM seeds threatens food safety, food security, biodiversity, and democratic ideals.
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Spike in world food prices: It's more than bad weather
A global index for food prices, as measured by the UN, reached a record high last month. This on the heels of a food crisis in 2007-08. The weather isn't the only culprit -- or solution.
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Food safety bill 101: What are the facts and myths?
The Food Safety Modernization Act has riled everyone from liberal 'locavores' to conservative tea party groups. Here's a rundown of what's really in the Senate bill.
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Letters to the Editor - Weekly Issue of October 18, 2010
Readers write in about free speech, genetically modified crops and overpopulation, legalizing marijuana in California.
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Signs of a biotech backlash?
Genetically modified seeds are still popular, but farmers question the high costs and the rise of herbicide-resistant weeds.
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Africa Monitor
How genetically modified seeds can help - and hurt - Africa's farmers
Proponents say genetically modified seeds arm Africa's family farms in the war against pests, droughts, and depleting soil. Critics cite concerns about biodiversity and health.
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Frankenfish -- genetically modified salmon -- take food and ecology to a new level
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) appears close to approving the 'frankenfish' salmon. That raises all sorts of questions.
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Frankenfish - modified salmon - considered for approval in US
Frankenfish: Critics are concerned about the safety of the food to humans and the salmon's effect on the environment.
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Africa Monitor
No more 'GMO' chicken from South Africa, says Zimbabwe. Now to see if there is such a thing.
Zimbabwe has banned genetically modified chicken from South Africa amid complaints that producers there are flooding the Zimbabwe market. But South African producers say there's no such thing as GMO chicken.
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Green Economics
Economic evolution and climate change
Climate change will nudge us to adopt more efficient means to allocate increasingly scarce natural resources.
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How science could spark a second Green Revolution
To fight poverty and overpopulation, crops need coaxing. Advances in deep-root food plants may trigger a new Green Revolution.
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Gallery: Controversial foods
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More herbicide use reported on genetically modified crops
A report has found that farmers are using more herbicides on genetically engineered soybeans, corn, and cotton because of resistant weeds.
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Just Food
A challenge to current ideas about responsible eating.
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A victory for cheese eaters? US-EU trade spat defused.
Roquefort prices won't triple for Americans, and Europeans can block hormone-treated US beef.
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A food agenda for Obama
Now's the time to reinvent America's farm and food policies.
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Horizons
PopTech conference lifts the lid on a cauldron of innovative ideas
Speakers talk about exploring hidden worlds under Antarctica, what all Canadian hockey stars have in common, and why GM crops are good.
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Diggin' It
When genetically modifed plants hit home
Gardeners ponder genetically modified plants.
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EarthTalk: How green is corn-based plastic?
Pro: It’s compostable. Con: But only in an industrial composting facility.
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Food crisis softens resistance to genetically modified (GM) food
At Rome summit, UN calls for $20 billion a year to feed hungry and fund a new ‘green revolution.’
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