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Undercover animal abuse videos could soon be outlawed
Chickens buried alive. Pigs so sick that their intestines hang out of their bodies. These are some of the grisly scenes from videos taken by animal rights activists who went undercover at farms that produce food destined for dinner tables.
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Scientists Try to Build a Tomato That Grows 24 Hours a Day
Tomato plants need their beauty sleep. If they don't get about eight hours of darkness, yellow spots appear on their leaves and the plants start to die. This isn't typically a problem for casual gardeners, but for growers who work overtime to increase yield by putting the plants under artificial light, the necessary time-out slows production.
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How the global banana industry is killing the world’s favorite fruit
Scientists first discovered the fungus that is turning banana plants into this rotting, fibrous mass in Southeast Asia in the 1990s. Since then the pathogen, known as the Tropical Race 4 strain of Panama disease, has slowly but steadily ravaged export crops throughout Asia. The fact that this vicious soil-borne fungus has now made the leap to Mozambique and Jordan is frightening.
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Farmaceuticals: The Drugs Fed to Farm Animals
A Reuters investigation finds that antibiotics are fed far more pervasively to farm animals than regulators realize, posing significant risk to human health.
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U.S. lawmakers want to curb antibiotic use on farms
Two U.S. lawmakers are calling for action to rein in antibiotic use in livestock in response to a Reuters investigation showing how top U.S. poultry firms have been administering drugs to their flocks.
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Farmer Eschews Engines for Real Horse Power
Farming with Draft Horses.
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Giving Chickens Bacteria ... To Keep Them Antibiotic-Free
You know those foods and pills that promise to supply your body with "good bacteria?" They may or may not make you healthier, but some of these "probiotics" do, in fact, appear to be effective in chickens. Poultry companies are turning to probiotics as an alternative to antibiotics, which have become increasingly controversial.
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New Generation of GM Crops Puts Agriculture in a 'Crisis Situation'
With the first of a new generation of genetically engineered crops ready to hit the market, the battle lines are being drawn. These crops and others like them may force a showdown between conflicting approaches to farming: one that depends on chemicals to fight weeds, and another that embraces ecology's lessons.
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GMO Wheat Investigation Closed, But Another One Opens
Investigators from the U.S. Department of Agriculture say they cannot figure out how genetically modified wheat got into an Oregon field. Now GM wheat has been found growing in Montana, too.
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Islamic State Uses Grain to Tighten Grip in Iraq
For Salah Paulis, it came down to a choice between his faith and his crop.A wheat farmer from outside Mosul, Paulis and his family fled the militant group Islamic State.
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Analysis: Further milk price cuts to spark farmer protests
Dairy farmers will soon be out blockading milk processing plants and supermarket depots following the latest round of milk price cuts.
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How Does it Grow? Cauliflower
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You're Eating Too Many Avocados
The avocado, that green, slimy, deliciously fatty fruit, the one chiefly responsible for bringing guacamole to humanity—and in recent years earning the rare and elusive title of a super food—is a botanical anomaly that shouldn’t exist. It should have disappeared long ago.
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The World's Most Badass Combine Harvester Will Shuck Your Mind
For untold centuries, humanity manually harvested and threshed our grains to separate the literal wheat from the chaff. The advent of combine harvesters--those that both harvest and thresh the grains in a single, automated process--however has vastly increased our ability to cultivate crops. And the new CR10.90 from New Holland does it better than anyone.
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Farm Confessional: What Butchering Your Animals Really Feels Like
This year we harvested three ewe lambs on butcher day. Angry readers who don’t eat meat want me to use the word “butcher.” So this is for them: We butchered the lambs. It was a good, quick death. I know this because I watched it.
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The Urban Farm That Is Soil-Free and Uses Virtually No Water
Less traditional farming methods have the potential to transform our food sources, but can they be affordable?
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Gay Breeding Bull Shows No Interest In Opposite Sex, Faces Slaughterhouse
Benjy, a gay pedigree Charolais breeding bull, shows no interest in mating same sex peers at the farm in County Mayo, Ireland. The bull was facing slaughter after the owner, who wishes to remain anonymous, found none of the female cows were carrying calves.
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Toshiba’s ‘clean’ factory farm where three million bags of lettuce are grown without sunlight OR soil
Japanese technology giant Toshiba has unveiled a huge factory farm where it is growing various types of lettuce leaves without sunlight or soil for sale in its new healthcare business. Located in disused 21,000-square foot electronics factory in Yokosuka, Toshiba claims to have created a perfect ‘germ free’ environment where it will grow three million bags of lettuce a year.
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The world’s biggest chocolate-maker says we’re running out of chocolate
There's no easy way to say this: You're eating too much chocolate, all of you. And it's getting so out of hand that the world could be headed towards a potentially disastrous (if you love chocolate) scenario if it doesn't stop.
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McDonald's Refuses To Buy GM Potatoes For Its Fries
An unusual stand for the global burger champ: no genetically modified potatoes, not even from the company's biggest potato supplier.
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