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Friday, October 19th, 2007GMO Pundit
Philip Hopkins
October 19, 2007
A group of farmers is, according to this story, seeking to develop frost-resistant, genetically modified wheat using a gene from Antarctica. The Molecular Plant Breeding Co-operative Research Centre will conduct the research for the farmers, who have formed a company, Green Blueprint International. GBI has lodged a prospectus to raise $2 […]
Biotechnology Needed to Help Meet Growing Global Needs for Food, Feed, Fuel and Materials, DuPont Chairman & CEO Says at World Food Prize
Friday, October 19th, 2007Biotechnology Market News
October 19, 2007
DES MOINES, Iowa, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — DuPont Chairman and CEO Charles O. Holliday, Jr., today told participants at the World Food Prize that biotechnology will enable the world to keep pace with the rapid growth in global demand for food, feed, fuel and materials.
“Biotechnology is the most powerful tool available […]
Plants work as assembly lines to fight cancer
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007Check Biotech
By Fabienne Heimgartner
October 16, 2007
Almost everyone has heard of, or experienced, the side effects of cancer chemotherapy. Now a laboratory at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia has described a plant- derived protein, which could soon be used as an anti- cancer vaccine, thus reducing the number of people who would need chemotherapy.
Scientists in the […]
Diminishing the Nobel Peace Prize
Monday, October 15th, 2007By: Dennis T. Avery
In 1964, Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize for leading the non-violent crusade against racism and slavery—bettering not only America but the entire world.
In 1971, Willi Brandt won the Peace Prize for leading Germany’s peaceful reintegration back into the “world family of nations,” healing the destruction caused by Kaiser Wilhelm […]
How to Fight Childhood Blindness
Friday, October 12th, 2007The American
By Patrick Moore
October 12, 2007
By embracing genetically modified ‘golden rice,’ says Greenpeace co-founder PATRICK MOORE, the world can help millions of people in developing countries.
It’s been seven years since a Swiss research team demonstrated that genetically enhanced “golden rice” could help prevent vitamin A deficiency (VAD), which is responsible for roughly half a million […]
Organic Farming Can’t Event Feed Bangladesh
Monday, October 8th, 2007By: Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—Organic farming could feed the world’s current population, and even a larger one based on organic crop yields reported from the Third World, say Catherine Badgley and a group of co-authors at the University of Michigan.
Evidence coming from around the world, however, indicates that the Badgley paper is wrong. For example, […]
“COOLING THE PANIC OVER WARMING”
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The List: Documented Doubts of Man-Made Global Warming Scares
Thursday, October 4th, 2007CITATION OF THE WORK OF THE FOLLOWING SCIENTISTS DOES NOT IMPLY THAT THEY NECESSARILY SUPPORT OUR CONCLUSIONS
The following list includes more than 450 qualified researchers, their home institutions, and the peer-reviewed studies they have published in professional journals providing historic and/or physical proxy evidence that:
1) Most of the recent global warming has been caused by […]
Global Warming and the Chesapeake Bay
Monday, October 1st, 2007By. Dennis T. Avery
CHURCHVILLE, VA—I was invited to testify before the Senate environment committee Sept. 26, on “The Impact of Global Warming on the Chesapeake Bay.” I told the committee there was no man-made global warming impact on the Bay. The Bay has been warmer than now several times because the moderate 1,500-year climate cycles […]
Cattle producers give back to the land
Friday, September 28th, 2007Meghan Pusey
Sept. 28, 2007
The latest video in a series that tells the real story of today’s American cattle ranchers is now available on the new Beef -from Pasture to Plate Web site.
The video follows Dennis Thaler and his family, who work together to run Thaler Land & Livestock Company, a 20,000 acre ranch and farm […]