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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006von Zoe Strimpel
Financial Times - Deutschland
On its own, lean meat is no longer frowned upon. The link between eating red meat and high cholesterol has been dismissed and the focus has shifted to the essential fats and vitamins red meat contains.
Red meat is the darling of the gastronomic world once more… Butchers are experiencing a […]
Warming Myth Busters: Authors Shine Sunlight on Greenhouse Gloom
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006Quoted from the Washington Times, November 15, p. A2
Warming Myth Busters: Authors Shine Sunlight on Greenhouse Gloom
“Current climate trends are partly a product of a solar-linked cycle that creates harmless, naturally warmer conditions approximately every 1,500 year, S. Fred Singer and Dennis T. Avery argue in their new book, “Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 […]
Movie Review: Fast Food Nation
Thursday, November 16th, 2006By John Mark Butterworth
Spero News - USA
Tendentious movie making at its worst (or would that be at its best?), Fast Food Nation is the kind of sophomoric nonsense you get when you turn a Berkeley teach-in into a fictional film. Made by the folks at Participant Productions, funded by an idiotarian eBay billionaire who has […]
No Beef to Breast Cancer Scare
Thursday, November 16th, 2006By Steven Milloy
FOX News
Excerpt…
“Breast cancer risk linked to red meat, study finds,” headlined the Washington Post’s front page last Tuesday. “Younger women who regularly eat red meat appear to face an increased risk for a common form of breast cancer, according to a large, well-known Harvard study of women’s health,” began the Post’s report.
The researchers […]
Red Meat Increases Risk of Breast Cancer - Or Does It?
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006By Ruth Kava, Ph.D., R.D.
ACSH (American Council on Science and Health)
Should women stop eating red meat to avoid or lessen the risk that they’ll develop breast cancer? Taken at face value, a new study suggests that might be a good idea — but a more careful consideration does not support this interpretation.
A report in the […]
Dairymen Organize to Protect Technologies
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006Farmshine
By Sherry Bunting
Special for Farmshine
Excerpt…
SCHAEFFERSTOWN, Pa. – “There are very important things at stake,” said dairy practitioner Dr. Brian Reed of Agricultural Veterinarian Associates based in Denver, Pa. “Producers have a choice to use or not use technologies that are available. That’s what I’m here to talk about: not to cause conflict but to find […]
Consumer Awareness of Biotechnology - Separating Fact from Fiction
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006by Alex Avery
Here’s a great post from Terry Etherton’s blog. Terry is a Professor of Animal Nutrition and heads the Department of Dairy and Animal Science at Penn State University.
PodCast: Consumer Awareness of Biotechnology - Separating Fact from Fiction
Terry Etherton’s Blog – Penn State University
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Transcript:
I had the pleasure of speaking at a meeting […]
PodCast: Consumer Awareness of Biotechnology - Separating Fact from Fiction
Monday, November 6th, 2006Terry Etherton’s Blog
Terry Etherton, Penn State University
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Transcript: Consumer Awareness of Biotechnology - Separating Fact from Fiction
I had the pleasure of speaking at a meeting of dairy producers in Lebanon County, PA on October 25, 2006 about rbST-free milk, and the tactics that some milk cooperatives are using to force producers who use rbST […]
Today rbST - What’s Next?
Wednesday, November 1st, 2006PA Farm News
A Monthly Column by Dennis Wolff, Secretary of Agriculture
Excerpt…
HARRISBURG – Recently, there has been renewed attention on the use of rbST (recombinant bovine somatatropin), a synthetic version of the natural protein growth hormone in dairy cattle. Dairy producers can use this product as a herd management tool to increase milk production. Thirteen years […]
Spinach Outbreak Linked to Grass-fed Cattle
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006Seven grass-fed cattle on ranch test positive for deadly strain of E. coli. FDA still unsure how bacteria got onto spinach
By Alex Avery
Churchville, VA — Monday, October 30, 2006
Since the last FDA Media update on the afternoon of Friday, October 27, several media outlets have reported that the FDA suspects wild boar or other wildlife […]