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By cgfi on January 07th, 2007

Organic Food Is No Better, Says Minister

The Sunday Times (London)
By Isabel Oakeshott, Deputy Political Editor
Organic food may be no better for you than mass-produced farm food, according to the cabinet minister responsible for the industry.
David Miliband, the environment secretary, says organic produce, which is usually more expensive, is a “lifestyle choice” with no hard evidence that it is healthier.
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By cgfi on January 07th, 2007

‘No Proof’ Organic Food is Better

BBC News
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There is no evidence organic food is better for you than conventional food, minister David Miliband has said.
The environment secretary said organic food was more of a “lifestyle choice that people can make”.
There is no “conclusive evidence either way” concerning the health effects of pesticides, he told the Sunday Times.
The Soil Association, which regulates [...]

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By cgfi on January 05th, 2007

I’ll have a cloneburger, medium rare

USA Today (Online Only)
By Andrew Kantor, CyberSpeak
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Last week, the Food and Drug Administration said that cloned animals are safe to eat. This isn’t a surprise, of course; cloned animals — the ones that live to term — are really no different than any other animal any more than a test-tube baby is different than [...]

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By cgfi on January 03rd, 2007

New Year’s Resolution: Protect Your Family From Foodborne Bacteria

[PLEASE NOTE THAT A CORRECTION HAS BEEN MADE TO THIS ARTICLE. WE HAD ERRONEOUSLY TYPED THAT TWENTY PEOPLE HAD DIED INSTEAD OF THREE. SORRY FOR ANY CONFUSION.]
Here’s a New Year’s Resolution to add to your list: “I resolve to protect my family more effectively from dangerous bacteria in their food.”
Hundreds of people [...]

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By cgfi on January 02nd, 2007

Got Milk? Got Hormones? – Exploiting Food Fear

Fearless Voices blog on The Huffington Post
By Dr. Julianne Malveaux
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Sales in the food industry grow at less than three percent a year. Why? The population is growing at about that pace and there is only so much food people can eat. But sales in the organic food industry are growing at a whopping 20-30 percent [...]

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By cgfi on January 02nd, 2007

What’s the Beef?

American.com
By Henry I. Miller
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The activists fighting cloned meat are long on feelings, short on evidence.
The preliminary decision of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) last week to permit the consumption of food from cloned animals is a good one. If anything, it’s long overdue, because scientists have known for years that the clones are indistinguishable [...]

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