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FDA is about ready to approve a modified species of Atlantic salmon for land-based fish-farming. Why not?
Archive for the ‘Agriculture’ Category
December 29th, 2010
Category: Agriculture, Drug Policy
This story about the Oakland City Council’s decision not to go forward with a plan to let private companies start enormous “medical” pot farms has two intriguing subplots. First, the Alameda County Attorney advised the members of the council that it was not clear whether they would be immune from federal prosecution if they approved [...]
December 15th, 2010
Bob Dineen, chief flack for the US biofuels industry, is delighted with the extension of the ethanol and biodiesel tax credits that ex-Illinois senator Obama didn’t filter out of the tax compromise. No, the Brazilians aren’t going to be relieved of the import duty that’s preventing us from using the one biofuel (their sugar cane [...]
October 13th, 2010
The bee story has a back story, a little darker and less promising than it looked through the NYT story’s window. HT: Kevin Drum and an RBC commenter.
September 15th, 2010
Category: Agriculture, Health and Medicine
The FDA is about to do the right thing about the routine use of antibiotics in livestock-raising.
August 19th, 2010
Olives grown in hedges.
April 10th, 2010
A proposal for carbon offsets in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest.
March 30th, 2010
French scientists tame the black truffle.
December 20th, 2008
Category: Agriculture, Energy and Environment
Climate and Agriculture: It’s not what progressives can get from Tom Vilsack; it’s what Tom Vilsack can get from progressives.
November 1st, 2007
Spanish bellota ham, a profitable neolithic technology.
