Yearly Archives: 2007

Great Rivers White Paper

Download Report (PDF) The great river valleys have always been the key cradles of civilization, and the great river valleys may always be at the heart of human societies. The great river valleys had the world’s richest hunting grounds. They … Continue reading

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Organic Food Fantasies Never Die

Way back in 1946, the esteemed British medical journal the Lancet declared in an editorial that organic fanatics were making health and nutrition claims way beyond what the science supported. Oh how little has changed since then. The media is … Continue reading

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Food Costs Increase and the Smoke and Mirrors of rbST-Free Milk Marketing Rolls On

Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology By Terry Etherton July 29th, 2007 Excerpt… The latest American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) Marketbasket Survey was released in July, 2007. The informal survey shows the total cost of 16 basic grocery items in the … Continue reading

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Reasons you should buy regular goods

Denver Post By Jackie Avener Article Last Updated: 07/27/2007 10:40:10 PM MDT Excerpt… I don’t like to buy organic food products, and avoid them at all cost. It is a principled decision reached through careful consideration of effects of organic … Continue reading

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Beef Nutrition: Beef Remains Most Popular Protein Served in Restaurants

Beef Cattle Production University of Nebraska – Lincoln August 2, 2007 Excerpt… Each year, the NPD Group provides information called “Consumer Reported Eating Share Trends” (CREST). The report includes data that tracks beef servings in commercial restaurants. For the 12 … Continue reading

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Soaring Farm Demand, Mutating Plant Diseases and Scientific Backlash

Over the next 50 years, human society and plant science will face the greatest conservation challenge in history: supporting a peak population of perhaps 8 billion mostly-affluent humans—and their pets—without taking the rest of the planet’s land away from nature. … Continue reading

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Nolan Ryan Pitches U.S. Beef in Japan

Forbes.com Cathy Bussewitz July 20, 2007 Excerpt… TOKYO – As U.S. baseball strikeout champion, Nolan Ryan used to hurl a lot of cowhide. In Japan on Friday, he pitched a different bovine product: U.S. beef. The retired Hall of Famer … Continue reading

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Why not raw milk?

Those of you who regularly read my work know that I believe in conventional milk. It is perfectly safe, perfectly nutritious, and perfectly refreshing. So what is with this push from some groups to make raw milk sales in supermarkets … Continue reading

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Water Experts Find Earth’s Warming, Rainfall Linked to Sun

A team of water experts says the pattern of droughts and floods in South Africa shows our global warming was triggered by the variability of the sun’s irradiance rather than by human-emitted CO2. They say variations in South African rainfall … Continue reading

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Norman Borlaug: He Only Saved A Billion People

MSNBC By Jonathan Alter Newsweek July 30, 2007 Issue Excerpt… It’s a trifecta much bigger and rarer than an Oscar, an Emmy and a Tony. Only five people in history have ever won the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal … Continue reading

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