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Tag Archives: food processing
Achievements and controversy surrounding rice, vitamins, and GM crops
Rice (Oryza sativa) is one of the world’s great staple foods. I recommend Oryza for information about rice. For example, here’s an Oryza article about rice, vitamins, and GM crops.
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Tagged beriberi, biotechnology, bird, breeding, brown rice, chicken, crop variety, development, disease, food processing, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, history, knowledge, lab animal, nutrition, plant_monocot, poultry, research, rice, staple food, vertebrate, Vitamin A, Vitamin B1, Vitamin E
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GM apples
When apple (Malus domestica) fruits are cut or bitten, we all know that the cut surfaces turn brown. To stop this happening, here’s a range of genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered, GE) apples called Arctic apples. Ordinary apples turn brown … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, knowledge transfer
Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, apple, apple Arctic, arthropod, bacterium, biotechnology, breeding, food processing, fruit, fruit variety, gene silencing, genetic modification, grocery, insect, law, pest, pH, plant_dicot, tree
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A GM potato for Europe?
Here in the European Union (EU), farmers were allowed to grow two crops that had been genetically modified (GM, genetically engineered, GE, biotech). Now they’re only allowed to grow one of them. In July this year I said that whether … Continue reading
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Tagged Agrobacterium tumefaciens, America, antibiotic, antibiotic resistance, BASF, biotechnology, Bt crop, carbohydrate, corn, crop, Dow, escaping transgene, Europe, European Food Safety Authority, farmer, feed, food, food processing, food safety, gene silencing, genetic modification, Golden Rice, grain, law, maize, maize 1507, maize MON810, Monsanto, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, nutrition, paper, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, potato Amflora, rice, Roundup Ready crop, soya, starch, Syngenta, textile, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, tuber
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Is the existing bovine TB eradication policy really working?
One of my favourite sources of information about bovine tuberculosis (bTB, caused by Mycobacterium bovis) is bovinetb.co.uk. Its unnamed author is ‘looking for the reform of a costly and misguided system.’ When I talk to farmers, I often hear support … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, ecology, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged alpaca, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease testing, disease transmission, endemic disease, export, farmer, finance, food, food processing, food safety, history, human, knowledge, law, livestock, mammal, meat, milk, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, politics, ruminant, shooting, slaughter, trade, tuberculosis, vaccine, vertebrate, veterinary, welfare, wildlife, zoonosis
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Rice: Why ‘dirty’ brown is better
Originally posted on Agriculture Information Bank:
By VERONICA PULUMBARIT When I first saw brown rice as a child, I was told, “Huwag yan, maruming bigas yan.”Well it turns out not all rice are created equal, with brown rice seeming to…
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Tagged brown rice, food, food processing, grain, human, nutrition, plant_monocot, rice
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How people get bovine tuberculosis. Or don’t get it.
Here in Britain some cattle (Bos primigenius) get bovine tuberculosis (bTB). It’s caused by a bacterium called Mycobacterium bovis. Other animals including the wild badger (Meles meles) can get bTB. Some people think badgers are a reservoir of the disease … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, disease, disease reservoir, disease transmission, food processing, food safety, human, livestock, mammal, meat, milk, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, notifiable disease, ruminant, tuberculosis, vertebrate, wildlife, zoonosis
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Tuberculosis in cattle and people
Here in Britain some cattle (Bos primigenius) get bovine tuberculosis (bTB). Symptoms are mild until after the bacterium (Mycobacterium bovis) spreads through the animal’s body. But even in its early stages bTB is a serious problem for the farmer. Bovine … Continue reading
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Tagged bacterium, badger, bovine tuberculosis, cattle, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs, disease, disease reservoir, disease transmission, food processing, food safety, history, human, law, livestock, mammal, milk, mustelid, Mycobacterium bovis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, notifiable disease, politics, research, ruminant, shooting, tuberculosis, vertebrate, wildlife
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What Is “Natural”?
Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
If you enter a grocery store and see an item claiming to be “100% natural”, what associations do you make? Would you assume it’s less processed? Healthier? Possibly even organic? At least if…
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Tagged food, food processing, food quality, grocery, label, law
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It’s agricultural, but is it art?
Jeremy Cherfas at Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog shows us two art projects about grains. I love the one about high fructose corn syrup. The one about printed landscapes is harder to understand, but as Jeremy says, art is supposed to make … Continue reading
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Tagged art, biodiversity, biofuel, corn, crop, ecosystem, finance, food, food processing, grain, habitat fragmentation, knowledge, landscape, maize, oats, plant_monocot, technology, wild flower, wildlife
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GM in Britain: NIMBY or red tape?
Here in Britain, farmers aren’t growing GM crops. Those are genetically modified crops, also called genetically engineered (GE) crops or biotech crops. One GM crop, a Bt (insecticidal) maize (corn, Zea mays) called MON810 sold by Monsanto, is grown commercially … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, Bt crop, corn, crop, Europe, feed, food, food processing, food safety, genetic modification, grain, law, legume, livestock, maize, maize MON810, Monsanto, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, research, soya, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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