Publication archives

Jun 7, 2006

Making the choice between meat and medicine

Maine is leading the nation with a state law that's the first of its kind to promote the purchase of meat from animals that have not been treated with antibiotics unless they were sick.
Jun 6, 2006

U.S. Boxed Into a Corner at WTO

A new economic simulation of the U.S. agriculture proposal at the World Trade Organization (WTO) confirmed what NGOs and developing countries have been saying for months: the proposal has so many loopholes it may actually increase the allowable amount of domestic agriculture spending in the U.S. The new simulation exposed not only the emptiness of the U.S.
Jun 6, 2006

Los negociadores comerciales de Estados Unidos acorralados contra una esquina en la OMC

Jun 6, 2006

Amerikaanse WTO-onderhandelaars in de hoek gedreven

A Dutch translation of an IATP commentary on the U.S. government's limited negotiating space in agriculture at the World Trade Organization.
Jun 5, 2006

Maine purchasing policy addresses antibiotics in livestock

AUGUSTA, Maine --Concerns about the human health implications of treating cattle, pigs and poultry with antibiotics to promote growth are prompting Maine to adopt what supporters call the first state meat purchasing preference policy of its kind in the nation.
Jun 1, 2006

Hordes of caterpillars invade Fairbanks (AK)

After working in her yard planting flowers all day Thursday, Kathy Carlin decided to take in a movie. But when she returned home on Red Fox Drive, it was Carlin who thought she had stepped into a horror film. Call it the "Invasion of the Black Caterpillars," only because black sounds more menacing than brown or gray.
Jun 1, 2006

Kellogg trees join battle against hungry invader (MI)

Ash trees in the W.K. Kellogg Forest are giving their lives in the battle to save Michigan forests from a ravenous bug. The Kellogg trees, originally intended to help foresters determine genetic types best suited to Michigan, these days have a more urgent use: food and shelter for laboratory insects.
Jun 1, 2006

The boreal zone: In the far north, a chance to get it right

I sat on my farmhouse's back step in the low light of dawn, watching two blackpoll warblers - slim, streaky and hyperkinetic - flit through the new leaves of the maples, which the sun turned into tiny lenses of green.