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China's top economic planner has announced price controls on a package of products, including grain, edible oil, meat, milk, eggs and liquefied petroleum gas, Xinhua learned Wednesday from a work conference of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).
Washington, DC - Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemned the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) irresponsible determination that milk and meat from cloned animals are safe for sale to the public. In addition, the FDA is requiring no tracking system for clones or labeling of products produced from clones or their offspring. This action comes at a time when the U.S.
Washington, DC - Today, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) condemned the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) irresponsible determination that milk and meat from cloned animals are safe for sale to the public. In addition, the FDA is requiring no tracking system for clones or labeling of products produced from clones or their offspring. This action comes at a time when the U.S.
THE Australian pork industry is in crisis with local producers driven to the wall by low-priced imports and rising feed costs.
Mainstream pig farmers, tired of losing money because of record volumes of imported processed pork products, such as ham and bacon, are quitting the industry in record numbers.
When I lived in Mexico City during the 1990s, I enjoyed leaving the city on weekends to escape the smog and replenish my lungs.
Sometimes I would drive to the mountains in Hidalgo, Morelos or Michoacan. Other times, I would head for Querataro or Guanajuato, three hours north of the capital.
The United States has agreed to give Europe more time to show progress in approving new biotechnology products, U.S. trade officials said Monday.
The agreement staves off intensification of a long-running trade dispute.
Sharply contrasting attitudes to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) continue to dog U.S.-European Union (EU) relations. The EU last week missed a World Trade Organization (WTO) deadline to lift some of its restrictions on GMO imports, entitling the United States, Canada, and Argentina to impose sanctions.
EatDrinkBetter.com, April 9, 2008
Desalination plants are popping up all over the world, but they may very well make the environmental crisis worse.
Stephen Hawking is no dummy. That much has been established.
Residents of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, and Chitungwiza, a dormitory town 35km to the southeast, are to be without water for seven days because of persistent power cuts that have affected bulk water treatment and distribution, the authorities have announced.
In one of its last acts of 2007, Congress approved a Peru trade deal that would expand the failed NAFTA trade deregulation model further into Latin America.
The MRSA staph infection is a deadly threat. It's time for a broad-based response.
It's a pretty safe bet the average voter doesn't care what the marketing loan rate is for soybeans or lentils. Or which conservation program gets the biggest increase in the new farm bill.
But try to find someone who doesn't have an opinion on whether landowners with seven-figure incomes should get federal farm subsidies.
The discount natural-foods retailer has discontinued single-ingredient items from mainland China but will continue to carry products that have an ingredient from China in their makeup.
About 1,000 farmers gathered in the village meeting hall here at 8 a.m. on Dec. 19 and proclaimed what amounted to a revolt against China's communist land-ownership system.
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. officials trumpeted an end to farm trade restrictions under NAFTA, the controversial North American trade deal, on Friday, while Mexican farmers vowed to take to the streets to protest liberalization they fear will run them into the ground.
n order to increase productivity, forest practices have become more intense in recent decades. Forest fertilization increased by 800% in the southeastern United States from 1990 to 1999, and the total acreage fertilized in the Southeast exceeds the forest area fertilized in the rest of the world.
Scholastic, the global children's publishing, education and media company, today announced that the company is further strengthening its sustainable paper procurement practices by setting industry-leading goals to increase the percentage of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified paper and post-consumer waste (pcw) recycled paper it purchases.
College of William and Mary professor J. Timmons Roberts sees a day when a landowner would get paid for the ecological value of leaving his forest stand rather than cutting it down.