Agriculture & Livestock

Magazine articles on agriculture, livestock, and genetically engineered foods.

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Science News July 12, 2003 Janet Raloff	Cholesterol Medicine for Eggs? A Taiwanese research team has been investigating red-yeast rice as a food supplement for chickens that might in turn lay low-cholesterol eggs.
BusinessWeek July 14, 2003 Arlene Weintraub	The Outcry over "Terminator" Genes in Food Critics fear such safeguards present fresh genetic perils
Science News June 28, 2003 Ben Harder	McDonald's Cutback in Antibiotics Use Could Reduce Drug-Resistant Bacteria The fast-food chain McDonald's announced on June 19 that it will stop its farms under contract from feeding chicken, cattle, and pigs certain antibiotics intended to accelerate the animals' growth. That step might slow or reverse the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria that can infect people.
Science News June 21, 2003 Janet Raloff	Treaty is Imminent for Genetically Engineered Foods The new treaty, when it goes into force next September, will require that documentation accompany all shipments of GMOs to and through nations that ratified the treaty, which so far doesn't include the United States.
Science News May 31, 2003 Janet Raloff	Global Food Trends Last year, for the third year in four, world per-capita grain production fell. Even more disturbing in a world where people still go hungry, at 294 kilograms, last year's per capita grain yield was the lowest in more than 30 years.
Science News May 24, 2003 Janet Raloff	How Olives Might Enhance Potatoes---and Strawberries Over the past few months, the German food technologists have been testing a mixture of olive-waste polyphenols against common crop-damaging fungi.
Reason May 2003 Brian Doherty	What's Your Damage? In February the creators and distributors of genetically modified (G.M.) StarLink corn settled a $110 million class action suit from corn farmers, marking a victory for environmentalist panic that could retard biotech development.
Inc. May 1, 2003 Patrick J. Sauer	No Oil, No Problem Pitching an alternative fuel made from soybeans.
IDB America March 2003 Peter Bate	From coffee to honey -- and profits Mexican coffee growers were finding it harder and harder to make a living with this traditional crop, which is trading at some of the lowest prices in a century. So some have decided to try producing honey, with remarkable results.
Science News March 8, 2003 Susan Milius	Scarce-Banana Scare -- But don't kiss that banana good-bye yet Headlines have been blaring that the banana will be extinct within 10 years but crop specialists say that's not likely. The furor has called attention, however, to a problem of worldwide banana supply and to the possibility that we'll be peeling things a little different in 2013.
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