Keeping Food Safe
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public-relations officers,” wrote the late historian Daniel Boorstin.Yet for me, as a California far...
Food Safety
Technology Moves Food Safety Forward
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...
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...
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...