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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 gave birth to the world’s first farms and then to the cities that produced the doctors [...]
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 once again pronouncing organic food superior based on science fad and the findings of a [...]
Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology
By Terry Etherton
July 29th, 2007
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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 second quarter of 2007 was $42.95, up about 4 percent or $1.61 from the first quarter of 2007. A [...]
Denver Post
By Jackie Avener
Article Last Updated: 07/27/2007 10:40:10 PM MDT
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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 production practices on animal welfare and the environment. I buy regular food, rather than organic, for the benefit of [...]
Beef Cattle Production
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
August 2, 2007
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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 months ending September, 2006, beef remained the most popular protein served in restaurants. Beef servings totaled 11.9 billion, compared [...]
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. Then, with their spare land, the farmers are expected to free the world from its [...]
Forbes.com
Cathy Bussewitz
July 20, 2007
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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 – and now Texas cattle rancher and beef promoter – visited Tokyo to assure Japanese consumers and regulators that U.S. [...]
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 legal? For those of you who don’t know what raw milk is, [...]
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 patterns are keyed to periodic reversals of the sun’s magnetic field—and to the constantly changing [...]
MSNBC
By Jonathan Alter
Newsweek
July 30, 2007 Issue
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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 of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal: Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Elie Wiesel … and Norman [...]
