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2005 - 2008

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• Corn Ethanol Loses More Support as GOP Senators Ask EPA to Backtrack As Food Prices Rise - Wall Street Journal 3may2008
• The Great Big Food Kablooey: Why Food is Complicated - Casaubon's Book 1may2008
• Food Troubles Are Here To Stay - Haaretz  (Israel) 1may2008
• Halt Biofuel Use to Fight Hunger, Scientists Urge: Bush Disagrees - AP 29apr2008

• The Politics Of Food Is Politics - Speaking Truth To Power 26apr2008

• Post Harvest Technology: Yet Another Reason There Are So Many People - Book Review and Commentary / Culture Change 23apr2008

• Wet Winter in West Eases Raft of Problems - (w/ maps) Wall Street Journal 11apr 2008

• Farm Lobby Beats Back Assault On Subsidies - Wall Street Journal 27mar2008

• Death of the Bees: GMO Crops and the Decline of Bee Colonies in North America - Global Research 25mar2008

• New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears: Spread of Prosperity Brings Supply Woes - Wall Street Journal 24mar2008

• Monsanto Loses Appeal of French Ban on Modified Corn - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 20mar2008

• Markets on Tear: Wheat, Oil, Euro: Grain Trading Explodes In the Minneapolis Pits; Speculators Flood In - Wall Street Journal 27feb2008

• USDA Orders Nation's Largest Beef Recall: 143 million pounds of frozen beef from Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co - AP 18feb2008

• More Grain Production Sought Farmers, Baking Industry Urge Government Action As High Prices Take Toll - Wall Street Journal 14feb2008

• Intensive Crop Culture for High Population is Unsustainable - Culture Change 10feb2008
• Has Earth Entered a New Epoch? - Christian Science Monitor 7feb2008
  • Are We Now Living in the Anthropocene? - Zalasiewicz / GSA Today 1feb 2008
• Higher Prices Food for Dismal Thoughts - The Telegraph (UK) 27jan2008
• Leading Experts Demand Retraction of "Wormy Corn" Paper from British Food Journal - GMWatch.org 24jan2008
• Is Plastic Making Us Fat? Obesity Epidemic - Boston Globe 14jan2008

   

2007

• Pasta Panic Strikes Italy: Price of Wheat Up 60% This Year - Fortune 15nov2007
• Ethanol Craze Cools As Doubts Multiply Claims for Environment, Energy Use Draw Fire - Wall Street Journal 28nov2007
• Biofuel Demand Pushes Up Food Prices - International Monetary Fund (IMF) 17oct2007
• Historic Surge In Grain Prices Roils Markets - Wall Street Journal 28sep2007
• UK Foot-And-Mouth Disease: We May Never Discover How Virus Escaped Into Farmland: Institute of Animal Health Was Source - The Times (UK) 9aug2007
• Facing Veto Threat, House OKs $90-Billion Farm Bill - Los Angeles Times 28jul2007
• IRRI: Feeding Billions, A Grain at a Time: As development and climate change imperil rice yields, scientists seek new Green Revolution - Wall Street Journal 28jul2007
• Organic Farming Yields 'As Good or Better' Than Conventional Farming - Reuters 11jul2007
• Organics May Cut Heart Disease - UPI 11jul2007
  • Ten-Year Comparison of the Influence of Organic and Conventional Crop Management Practices on the Content of Flavonoids in Tomatoes - Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry 23jun2007
• Organic Fruit and Vegetables Really Are Better For Your Heart - The Times (UK) 5jul2007
• Drought Saps the Southeast, and Its Farmers - New York Times 4jul2007
• Ricekeepers: A Struggle to Protect Biodiversity and a Native American Way of Life - Winona LaDuke / Orion  1jul2007
• Turkey Waste, a New Fuel and a New Fight - New York Times 6jun2007
• Ethanol: Corn Prices Rising, Pigs Switch To Fatty Snacks - Wall Street Journal 21may2007
• Are Mobile Phones Wiping Out Our Bees? - The Independent (UK) 30apr2007
• The Way We Live Now: You Are What You Grow - Michael Pollan / New York Times 22apr2007
• Organic Milk Supply Expected to Surge as Farmers Pursue a Payoff - New York Times 20apr 2007
• The Silence of the Bees - High Country News High Country News 19mar2007
• Inmates Will Replace Migrants in Colorado Fields - New York Times 4mar2007
• Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan / New York Times 28jan2007
• Organic Erosion: Will the term organic still mean anything when it's adopted whole hog by behemoths such as Wal-Mart? - San Francisco Chronicle 28jan2007
• The New Gold Rush: How Farmers are Set to Fuel America's Future: Rush to grow corn for ethanol - The Guardian 26jan2007
• Persistently Clean? Antimicrobials accumulate in the municipal sludge used to fertilize crops - American Scientist 1jan2007

2006

• F.D.A. Tentatively Declares Food From Cloned Animals to Be Safe - New York Times (plus others) 29dec2006
  • FDA Issues Draft Documents on the Safety of Animal Clones - FDA Press Release (with link to comments page) 28dec2006
• Farms May Cut Habitat Renewal Over E. Coli Fears - San Francisco Chronicle 19dec2006
• Biofuels: Biodevastation, Hunger & False Carbon Credits - ISIS 11dec2006
• Imports Spurring Push to Subsidize Produce - New York Times 3nov2006
• Nearly $800M Going to Drought Aid: Hottest July since the Dust Bowl in 1936 - AP 29aug2006
• Olive Oil Mechanization: California farmers are making a big push, planting tens of thousands of trees - San Francisco Chronicle 27aug2006
• Wal-Mart to Sell Organic Food: The Way We Live Now: Mass Natural - Michael Pollan / New York Times 4jun2006
• Mad Cow Madness - Editorial / Los Angeles Times 15mar2006
• New Kind of Cattle Branding: An ID Number  - Wall Street Journal 1mar2006
• Mad Cow: USDA Fought Retesting of Infected Cow - Washington Post 3feb2006
• Airborne and Satellite Radars Record Frascati Grape Harvest - European Space Agency 31jan2006
• Japan: Cold Stunts Harvest; Vegetable Prices Soar to 20 to 50 Percent Above Average - Asahi Shimbun (Japan) 12jan2006

2005

• Free-Range Poultry May Be The First Casualty In Our War on Avian Flu -  East Bay Express 30nov2005
• France: Ballarin's Tainted Corn: Biotech-Crop Battle Heats Up as Strains Mix With Others: Fears Hurt U.S. Farmers - Wall Street Journal 8nov2005
• Organic Standards: NOSB Suggested Regulatory Changes to Comply with Harvey v. Johanns Submitted to the USDA ( not yet voted) - Arthur Harvey email 21oct2005
• Global Seed Industry Concentration – 2005 - ETC Group Communiqué  6sep205
• Bayer Baytril: FDA Bans Bayer Antibiotic for Poultry Use - Reuters 29jul2005
• Monsanto: "America's Heartland" Television Show Criticized Over Its Sponsors - Sacramento Bee 26jul2005
• Industry Aims to Strip Local Control of Food Supply - San Francisco Chronicle 20jul2005
• Insects Develop Resistance to Engineered Crops When Single- and Double-gene Altered Plants are in Proximity - Press Release / Cornell University 17jun2005
• Growers Oppose Drugs Made of Flax - AP 15jun2005
• American Corn Growers Association Raises Concerns Over Shortsighted US Biotech Policy - Press Release / ACGA 3jun2005
• Organic Milk Supply Falls Short - Washington Post 1jun2005
• Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge - Earth Policy Institute 9may2005
• USDA Proposes System To Track Individual Cattle -  Wall Street Journal 6may2005
• India: Only Dead Fish Move With the Flow: Turning Bharat into Andhra Pradesh - Deccan Herald (Bangalore, India) 22apr2005
• Biopharming: Anheuser-Busch to Boycott State's Rice If Genetic Alterations Allowed - Kansas City Star 12apr2005
• Organic Rules: Arthur Harvey writes to Congress Regarding Harvey v. Veneman 7apr2005
• Organic Rules: Court clarifies Synthetics Ban -  Natural Foods Merchandiser 6apr2005
• Organic Rules: Harvey and Goliath: A Maine Farmer Rocks the NOP - Sustainable Times 1apr2005
• Biopharming: Can Pharmaceutical Rice be Contained? - Delta Farm Press 31mar2005
• Canada: Farmers to get $1-billion in aid from Ottawa -  Globe and Mail (Canada) 29mar2005
• Biopharming: Missouri Bootheel Farmers Gain Allies in Rice War - St. Louis Post-Dispatch 24mar2005
• Monsanto Chalks Up Crop of Global Biotech Victories - AP 19mar2005
• Your Food Transformed: GMOs - Dr. Ignacio Chapela on KPOO 89.5 FM San Francisco, CA 17feb2005
• Dean/Horizon Feedlot Dairy Accused of Masquerading as an Organic Farm -  The Cornucopia Institute 16feb2005
• Organic Rules: Plot Thickens in NOP Challenge -  Natural Foods Merchandiser 15mar2005
• Iraq: Plowing for Profits U.S.: Agribusiness Eyes Iraq’s Fledgling Markets -  In These Times 15mar2005
• Organic Rules: NOP Violates Organic Rule, Court Says -  Natural Foods Merchandiser 2feb2005
• Monsanto Sues Farmer Customers Over Piracy Issues: It's efforts to protect its technology often turn farmer against farmer -  Des Moines Register 30jan2005
• Seven Palestinian Children Killed in Strawberry Fields by Israeli Anti-Personnel Shells - The Palestinian Non-Governmental Network (PNGO) 5jan05
• Kristie and Rick Knoll Rebel Against Corporate-Controlled USDA Regulation of Organic Farming -  East Bay Express 5jan04 
• India: New Amendments to Patents Act, 1970 to Affect Farm Sector - Financial Express (India) 3jan05