Two cows meet at a fence. “This mad-cow disease sure is scary,” says the first. “I know what you mean,” replies the second. “Good thing it doesn’t hurt us chick...
The recent announcement from USDA that agricultural imports in fiscal year (FY) 2006, the year that ended on September 30, were $64 billion has again caused com...
I’ve just returned from a business trip to India. If Indians are interested in U.S. food safety, I thought to myself as I read the news from home, then American...
Last week, Scientific American observed that “Genetically modified (GM) crops have spread faster in the past decade than any agricultural technology since the p...
As biotech crops have become widely grown around the world the safety of eating products from livestock and poultry fed biotech crops has been an issue. While ...
Will the last person to agree that biotech food is safe to eat please turn out the lights? That was my first response when I read a summary of the new report...
That’s what American meatpackers have wondered ever since the United States closed its borders to cattle from Canada nearly two years ago. The shutdown was a re...
Every weekend during the football season, we come across reminders of the stubborn fact that a good defense can keep you in a game for a long time--but that you...
The classic horror writer H.P. Lovecraft--think of him as a 1930s version of Stephen King--once wrote: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and...
Their hysterics remind me of the story of the Salem witches--and especially the intriguing possibility that if biotechnology had been available in 1692, there m...