Month: January 2013

Recommended: FDA Quietly Pushes Through Genetically Modified Salmon Over Christmas Break

Jan 29, 2013

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EcologyFlorida

in Economics, Nature

In case you missed it, the US FDA released official reports the last week of December approving AquaAdvantage Salmon for both breeding and consumption. A suspiciously advantageous time to release the documents, Anthony Gucciardi says, due to the inattentiveness of the general public because of the Christmas holiday. If you missed this news as many…
EDITORIAL: We Can Do Better Than California Broccoli

Jan 17, 2013

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EcologyFlorida

in Culture, Editorial

Happy New Year, 2013. Good news is not always easy to find in America’s Industrial food system. Recent articles highlighted in Ecology Florida News have focused on the relative scarcity of local farmers’ markets and CSAs in the state, knotty issues associated with GMOs, and a critique of the dominance of our food culture by…