NEW YORK, March 23 (UPI) -- A judge has ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to move forward with a ban on the use of popular antibiotics in animals out of public health concerns.Judge Theodore H. Katz of the Southern District of New York ordered the Obama administration to alert drug makers the government may soon ban the common ( Read more... )

Small farms may be better for food security and biodiversity
We often assume the only way to feed the world's rapidly growing human population is with large-scale industrial agriculture. Many would argue that genetically altering food crops is also necessary to produce large enough quantities on smaller areas to feed the world's people.

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Ever since doing a school semester in Arizona, I've been fascinated by the ways people come up with take care of growing their own food in the desert, so this definitely caught my eye ( Read more... )