There are significant concerns about the long term security and sufficiency of global food-crop production due to the potential impact of many factors including climate change, population growth, changing consumption patterns and competing demands for …
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Farm Bill Amendment calls for NAS to Study Safety and Impacts of Cloned Meat and Animals
Press Release of the Center for Food Safety FDA APPROVAL OF CLONES STALLED BY PASSAGE OF MIKULSKI-SPECTER AMENDMENT IN FARM BILL Bill Passes by an Overwhelming Majority of 79 to 14; Coalition of Consumer, Farmer, …
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The article below is reprinted from the British magazine Private Eye, No. 1194, 28 September-11 October 2007. The ‘heavy-handed’ libel threats referred to below temporarily closed the GM Watch website this summer. Heavy-handed libel threats …
Continue readingStudy Questions Application of Animal Experiments to Humans
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Much of science, including healthcare research and important fields of risk assessment, depend, in part or in whole, on the presumption that animal models can usefully predict human responses to …
Continue readingConflicts of Interest: In Agriculture too?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Failure to declare a conflict of interest, as Lester Crawford has been reminded (see news item), is a federal offence for United States Government employees, punishable by a prison term. …
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