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From the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation webpage: a page with truly hopeful sparkleGolden Rice The NeedRice is the staple food crop for more than half of the world’s population, and is especially important in Asia. While it is ample in calories, it lacks vitamin A, which plays an important role in maintaining good health. Because millions…
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Written by Matt DiLeo “Heirlooms were varieties that were so unsuccessful that they wouldn’t be sold today… Every product declines until it’s replaced by new heirlooms.” The backlash was inevitable.
12 April 2011. Press release A pioneering Australian research alliance is leading the international race to break the world’s reliance on fish stocks for its supply of the vital dietary nutrient, long chain omega-3. Today (Tuesday 12 April) three Australian organisations announced a $50 million dollar research collaboration which will use leading edge gene technology…
Fill in the XXXs below as you see fit. How the anti-XXX lobby misled us all with dodgy claimsGeorge Monbiot, The Age, MelbourneApril 6, 2011 When the facts don’t suit, the movement resorts to the folly of cover-up allegations.OVER the past fortnight I’ve made a deeply troubling discovery. The anti-XXX movement to which I once…
Two brief introductions about how to overcome stress damage in crops have appeared in this months ISB April 2011 newsletter, coming out of Virginia Polytech. They cover manipulation of leaf pore (stomata) density and better triggering of plant stress responses:
I walked into the gleaming ‘Orchard in a box”, a closed greenhouse where no pollen can flow outside. The apple was red, red, red inside and out and I wanted it. But because I was in New Zealand, where experimenting with genetically engineered food is highly regulated, tasting was banned. How was this forbidden fruit…
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Going up: food prices set to soar by Richard Webb. The Sunday Age, Melbourne. April 3, 2011 “Higher world prices for commodities such as wheat and sugar will place pressure on related food prices”, says the Reserve Bank of Australia. With global food prices at record highs, a supermarket war isn’t enough to keep prices down… …In…
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A little bit of regular harm does you a lot of good. If we are going to biofortify foods with extra doses of beneficial chemicals that are not essential nutrients, such as resveratrol found in grapes (see A GM wheat that prevents Alzheimer’s disease, extract below) or with polyphenols that are found in berries, it behooves…
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Biodiversity doesn’t feed people, but GM crops doMarch 30, 2011, ACSH Despatch During a United Nations meeting in Bali to discuss a treaty on plant genetics, La Via Campesina, which according to an article in The Atlantic, is said to be an international farmers’ movement comprised of 150 organizations in 70 countries, decided not to…
Patrick Moore – Rex Weyler Exchange about Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist Rex Weyler announces to Patrick Moore that he is about to come out publicly with a critique of Patrick’s new book, Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist. Here is Patrick’s response: RW:…