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- The news from China: two executions November 24, 2009
  Remember last year’s scandal about the 300,000 Chinese infants who developed kidney disease after being fed infant formula laced with melamine? That anyone would put melamine into infant formula was shocking on its own (although the previous year’s scandal over melamine in pet food ought to have been fair warning, as I explained in my [...]
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- You heard it here: the hot trend is cupuaçu (?) November 23, 2009
  What, you may well ask, is cupuaçu? I confess never having heard of it but thank heavens for Wikipedia, which explains in somewhat limited detail that it is a coffee-like tree with a sweet fruit. Botanically, it is a Theobroma in the coffee family. Mintel, the market research firm, identifies it as the newest antioxidant-rich fruit [...]
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Grist – Food
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- SuperFreak Dubner embraces ClimateGate conspiracy theories
  by Brad Johnson Cross-posted from the Wonk Room.Stephen J. Dubner, co-author of SuperFreakonomics, hasembraced charges by the right wing that a handful of illegally obtainedprivate emails means that the scientific consensus on climate change isactually a dangerous conspiracy.Dubner lent credence to the fevered“ClimateGate” ravings of Rush Limbaug […]
NCDA In the Field
- Tobacco growers approve referendum by landslide November 24, 2009
  Tobacco growers across the state voted overwhelmingly last week to continue a program that supports tobacco research and education. Ninety-two percent of the growers voted Nov. 19 in favor of The North Carolina Tobacco Research Check-off Referendum. Under the self-assessment program, growers allocate 10 cents per 100 pounds of flue-cured and burley tobacco s […]
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- Today’s Topic: Pardon us while we talk turkey November 24, 2009
  Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler sits down each week with the Southern Farm Network’s Rhonda Garrison to discuss “Today’s Topic.” Monday, Commissioner Troxler took part in the sendoff for two turkeys that will be “pardoned” by President Obama at the White House. This is the 62nd year the National Turkey Federation will present the White Hou […]
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USDA
- USDA and the Corporation for National and Community Service mark Thanksgiving With a Call to Service
  This week, as families across America prepare to celebrate Thanksgiving, the Obama Administration is asking Americans to think about their neighbors who are struggling to put food on the table. Although we are the richest nation in the world, the food security report released last Monday by USDA’s Economic Research Service indicates that hunger is a serious […]
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