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As we put the summer garden to bed and our thoughts turn to winter meals of slow-cooked stews and roasts, a welcome guide to cooking and sourcing sustainable meat has arrived from Deborah Krasner.

The idea that engineered nanomaterials (involving the manipulation of materials at the molecular level) would be allowed in certified organic food production seems ludicrous on its face. Allowing nanotechnology would seemingly destroy the credibility of the organic label with consumers.

The Obama administration has pledged to double exports by 2015. The administration will have trouble reaching that goal for agriculture if it continues following the lead of the big meat companies and ignores health issues raised by top U.S. trading partners.

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It almost seems preposterous to ask this question, but what type of salmon would you prefer to see on your plate:

1. Genetically modified Atlantic salmon, spliced with Pacific salmon growth gene and modulated by a regulator protein from an Ocean Pout; or
2. Wild Sockeye from the pristine unpolluted waters of Bristol Bay, Alaska.

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"Living with floods involves two broad activities: better managing the risks and taking steps to reduce our vulnerability, and better managing the landscape to reduce the magnitude and destructive power of floods." - Connie Mutel, Epilogue, "A Watershed year: Anatomy of the Iowa Floods of