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Trump teases future role for Ramaswamy at NH rally: 'He'll be working with us for a long time' The biotech entrepreneur suspended his campaign following Trump's major victory at the Iowa caucuses www.foxnews.com/... www.hindustantimes.com/......
by ca cokz
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on Wed Jan 17, 2024 at 04:29 AM PST
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In looking over comments to one of the many Trump posts today, a commenter posted a video that I assume is from Trump’s visit to a Fujifilm biotech plant in North Carolina this past Monday (it’s not just film and cameras anymore, Martha and Melvin...)....
by Coloradowoodsman
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on Wed Jul 29, 2020 at 03:42 PM PDT
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Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...
First published in 2000 under the title A Consumer’s Guide to GM Food: From Green Genes to Red Herrings , this book was devised by scientist ...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Mon Aug 08, 2016 at 04:21 PM PDT
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The paper industry, even with the modern trend of digitization of materials and online news and book sources, continues to make the wood pulp market ...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Fri Jul 29, 2016 at 11:29 AM PDT
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All crops have to contend with parasites and pests, whether of the insect or bacterial variety, and farmers have to create multiple methods to ...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Thu Aug 04, 2016 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...
At the turn of the decade, a new “scientific” fad diet began to spread across the internet and the nutrition community with claims of tiny ...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Mon Aug 01, 2016 at 11:43 AM PDT
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Rice is, arguably, the most important crop ever cultivated by mankind. It has fed millions of people over millennia and has remained a staple food source for a majority of the world. The two most...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Thu Jul 21, 2016 at 03:12 PM PDT
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Hydrogen has long been one of the dream energy sources of green and alternative energy programs. A clean fuel source with no negative byproducts and ...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Fri Jul 15, 2016 at 02:00 PM PDT
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Crop diseases have always been one of the main combatants in the war between farmers and nature. Regardless of the source, whether viral, bacterial, ...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Thu Jul 14, 2016 at 02:03 PM PDT
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Austria has a bit of a problem with genetically modified crops. This is not an altogether surprising statement, as the nation has for two decades been heavily involved in promoting organic farming, in...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Tue Jul 12, 2016 at 01:58 PM PDT
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Since 2006, China has focused on a number of projects to maximize its further industrialization and economic dominance in the world sphere, with the county branching out into several new fields. This...
by Sterling Ericsson
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on Sun Jul 10, 2016 at 06:02 AM PDT
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Once upon a time, the American Chestnut tree dominated the forests of Appalachia, a habitat for wildlife, a source of valuable hardwood, and (though we didn’t know it at the time) a major sink for car
by FrustratedProgressive
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on Tue Jan 19, 2016 at 11:49 AM PST
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Here's a switch! Hawai'i comes to California to protest at the Bio International Conference in San Diego. Babes Against Biotech showed up to express their displeasure that Syngenta and other ...
by Karen from Maui
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on Thu Jun 26, 2014 at 09:45 PM PDT
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The State of Oregon is currently in an excellent position to become the first state in the country to pass a GMO Right-to-Know Labeling initiative by popular referendum WITHOUT a trigger clause. We ...
by delillo2000
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on Wed Mar 12, 2014 at 07:00 AM PDT
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In Europe, GMOs are tightly regulated in the food chain. Foods that receive the various prestigious European "Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée"-type markings cannot be made with GMO yeasts, dairy ...
by atana
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on Sun Dec 01, 2013 at 11:04 AM PST
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"Caifornians should be able to know what's in their food, so they can make choices about what they eat!" This is the very simple premise behind Prop. 37, which would label foods that contain ...
by taztunes
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on Thu Nov 01, 2012 at 08:20 AM PDT
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These past few days I've been reading Nature's Operating Instructions: The True Biotechnologies , a series ...
by Steve Masover
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on Mon Oct 24, 2011 at 09:42 AM PDT
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Rep. Peter Barca is the Wisconsin Assembly Democrats Leader
Last fall Scott Walker and his fellow Republicans got elected on the promise of creating 250,000 jobs for Wisconsin workers and ...
by PeterBarca
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on Wed Sep 14, 2011 at 12:57 PM PDT
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The FDA is set to approve genetically engineered (GE) salmon for human consumption. It would be the first time that a genetically engineered animal would be approved for people to eat, yet consumers ...
by calalum
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on Sat Nov 20, 2010 at 07:02 AM PST
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In the first post of this three-part interview, Pam Ronald and Raoul Adamchak, authors of the book, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food, discuss why both ...
by NourishingthePlanet
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on Tue Aug 03, 2010 at 09:57 AM PDT
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