Salmon just one round in genetic food fight
Portland Press Herald - 9/24/2010.By Malcolm Ritter and Seth Borenstein (AP) – We've always played with our food – even before we knew about genes or how to change them. For thousands of years, humans have practiced selective breeding – pairing the beefiest bull with the healthiest heifers to start a new herd. That concept was refined to develop plant hybridization and artificial insemination. |
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Genetically modified foods in supermarkets: how many?
The Atlantic - 9/24/2010. By Marion Nestle – If you restrict the definition of GM foods to those involving actual manipulations of DNA (rather than eggs and sperm), and the insertion of DNA from one organism into the DNA of another, then the number of GM foods approved for production in the United States is quite limited. The FDA provides a list of such foods in its inventory of completed consultations on bioengineered foods. |
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The great egg challenge of 2010
The Atlantic - 9/23/2010. By Barry Estabrook – The results are in. Earlier this month I speculated that the root cause of the recent food-borne epidemics like the Salmonella outbreak was to be found in the very nature of large-scale, industrialized agriculture: vast cacophonous barracks reeking of fumes from ammonia and housing 50,000 to 125,000 caged hens, debeaked to prevent them from pecking each other to death, then packed into "battery" cages so tightly that they can't turn around or flap their wings. |
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‘Any Day Now!’ dawns for Rosemont Market’s move
Portland Press Herald - 9/23/2010. By Meredith Goad – The handmade signs in the windows at the new Rosemont Market and Bakery have been promising "Any Day Now!" That day finally came Wednesday, when the market's employees began moving the store from 559 Brighton Ave. across the street to a much larger space at 580 Brighton, the former Rosemont Pharmacy building. |
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