U.S. Agricultural Imports Respond to Consumer Demands
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...
Food Safety
Eatin’ Safely in the Jungle
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...
Trillions Served
Last week, Scientific American observed that “Genetically modified (GM) crops have spread faster in the past decade than any agricultural technology since the p...
Biotech Crops Are Safe for Livestock & Poultry Feed
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 ...
Biotech for the Common Good
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...
Where’s The Beef
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...
Biotech is Better
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...
Fashionable Fear
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...
A Matter of Trust
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...
Safety In The Jungle
I’m not surprised that we’ve identified a case of mad-cow disease in the United States. With the number of cattle we have, it was bound to happen sometime. We s...