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• Planting for a Greener Yield

  Mar 3rd 2010

  By: Guest Posts

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  By Brandon Hunnicutt
  Over the last 15 years, agriculture has been changing technologically at an amazing pace. It is something that is truly fun to look back at and realize where we have come. As a producer of corn, soybeans, wheat, seed corn, and popcorn over many of those years it has truly changed [...]

  Commentary, guest post

  Environment, farming, Genetic Engineering, yield

• Non-traditional Comestibles Suitable for Holiday-specific Ingestion

  Nov 29th 2009

  By: Guest Posts

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  by Cody Cobb
  Before Thanksgiving break, my plant systematics professor told us that if we handed her a list of the scientific names of every plant species we consumed over the holidays we would get extra credit. I toyed with the idea of simply rewriting a recipe to include the latin names but considered that too [...]

  Holiday, Science

• The Right to Know: Why GMO Labeling Law Isn’t So Black and White

  Nov 10th 2009

  By: Guest Posts

  8 comments

  By Rob Hebert
  Consumer advocacy groups are a strange animal. It seems that for every influential lobbying group with a senator’s ear, there are hundreds or thousands with only vague mission statements and no clear agenda for attaining their stated goals. I once spent a summer working for the latter type. A hallmark of this kind [...]

  Food, Genetic Engineering, Law, Politics

• Breeding Tetanus Vaccines into Plants

  Mar 6th 2009

  By: Guest Posts

  2 comments

  By Melinda Yerka
  This is a painting done by Sir Charles Bell in 1809 of a soldier dying of tetanus.  Doesn’t look too comfortable, hmm?  Tetanus is a condition brought on when certain bacteria, called Clostridium tetani, enter deep puncture wounds, such as the proverbial rusty nail, or in this soldier’s case, a dirty [...]

  Genetic Engineering, Science & Society

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