Posts Tagged ‘agriculture’
By NunoXEI • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Geoffrey Lean, The Independent–Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
By NunoXEI • May 2nd, 2008 • Category: Articles
Nicole McCallum, TheGreenRocket.com–Nikki was able to get more information about PETA’s million dollar In Vitro Meat Contest. In a brief email correspondence with PETA’s Jeff Haines, some user discussion concerns about future farming and livestock abundance are answered.
By NunoXEI • May 1st, 2008 • Category: Blog
Reuters, ENN-More of the Amazon rain forest should be cut down to make way for farmland to help ease the global food crisis, the governor of a big Brazilian farming state was quoted as saying.
By NunoXEI • Apr 30th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Worldwatch Institute, ENN–At the University of Maryland’s Center for Marine Biotechnology, Stubblefield and his fellow researchers are not only altering nature, they are creating what may be the next generation of seafood.
By NunoXEI • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Blog
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants to pay a million dollars for fake meat — even if it has caused a “near civil war” within the organization.
The organization said it would announce plans on Monday for a $1 million prize to the “first person to come up with a method to produce commercially [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 21st, 2008 • Category: Blog
Genetic modification actually cuts the productivity of crops, an authoritative new study shows, undermining repeated claims that a switch to the controversial technology is needed to solve the growing world food crisis.
The study – carried out over the past three years at the University of Kansas in the US grain belt – has found [...]
By NunoXEI • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Blog
Talks began during a three day meeting of the first In Vitro Meat Consortium Symposium, held at the Norwegian Food Research Institute, around the process, tested so far only at laboratory scale, of growing pork, chicken, or beef through cell culture in vats instead of raising and slaughtering animals.
The In Vitro Meat Consortium brought together [...]
