Thankful For Moral Leadership
The Pope? How many divisions has he got? sneered Josef Stalin in 1935, upon hearing the suggestion that the Soviet Union go easy on its Catholic population.Al...
Food and Nutritional Security
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...
Celebrating Rice
An amazing fact: Farmers around the world produce nearly 1 trillion pounds of rice each year.Impressed? You should be. A trillion pounds is a big pile of rice. ...
Keeping Our Eyes on the Green
The scientists who have been working for years to perfect a variety of biotech enhanced grass understand the truth in that statement. Now they may be learning i...
Guilt: Use it And Lose it
Isnt that the truth? Sometimes it seems that when we eat, guilt is always on the menu.
That reminds me of another saying: Guilt is the mother of invention.
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Celebrating Life
Norman Borlaug deserves about a billion birthday cards every year. Thats because something like a billion people--and maybe more--owe their lives to this extra...
Excited about Biotech
Oh wait, Im getting ahead of myself. Let me backtrack.
Last month, I attended the Farm Journal Forum in Washington, D.C.--an annual gathering for people in ...
New Years resolutions
Its been a whole week. Are you still keeping your New Years resolutions?
Maybe youve heard the joke: A New Years resolution is something that goes in one...
My favorite Things Or Whats in the biotech pipeline?
“If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right,” said author Arthur C. Clarke in 1969. &ldq...
A Biotech Enhanced Quality of Life
Youll never guess whos been planting biotech crops.
I wont keep you in suspense, its the Amish.
There arent very many of them in the United States--o...