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	<title>Down to Earth - Safety in Food Production</title>
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		<title>Weekly Earthlinks, August 15</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/weekly-earthlinks-august-15/archives/143</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 19:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can an Organic Girl go corporate without selling out? A really thought-provoking piece from Ethicurean.  From grass-roots to becoming the Martha Stewart of the organic empire, is MaryJane still for real?
What belongs in a Farmer&#8217;s Market?   Stuff from farms, right? Ahhhh, if only it were so simple! from Slowfoodblog.  We get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>rBST:  Should we care?</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/rbst-should-we-care/archives/142</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a local foodie, small producer and farmer&#8217;s market vendor, I found myself in an odd position in my last post;  defending Monsanto. Although I think Monsanto has a less-than-great track record in the PR department, as a scientist, it was relatively easy to post on the facts.   As I cruised the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monsanto divests of Posilac (rBST)-some science</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/monsanto-divests-of-posilac-rbst-some-science/archives/140</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:52:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Monsanto recently issued a press release announcing they are divesting of the rBST product.  Monsanto states they are not removing the product from the market, but rather looking to offload the business to a different company.  In this first of several posts on rBST, I&#8217;ll try to provide some scientific background.
rBST or recombinant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Earthlinks, August 8</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/weekly-earthlinks-august-8/archives/138</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Weekly Earthlinks a day early, as we are headed North to my &#8220;farma mater&#8221; to see family.
An Upside to Higher Food Prices? Do higher food prices have some benefit for humanity?  Do higher food prices spur production, mean more income for farmers and discourage use of food for fuel?  Or do they destabilize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Earthlinks, August 1</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/weekly-earthlinks-august-1/archives/135</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Cow Whisperers:  File this under techno-science geek.  Using GPS technology, a USDA researcher uses a Walkman-like headset that enables him to &#8220;whisper&#8221; wireless commands to cows to control their movements across a landscape—and even remotely gather them into a corral.
Sterile Veggie Patches: From Ethicurean.  In the wake of the salmonella scare, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Food Choices in the Real World</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/food-choices-in-the-real-world/archives/136</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an interesting discussion going on at one of the leading feminist blogs.  It&#8217;s about one woman&#8217;s frustrations surrounding food choices and feeding her family.  In one single post, she touches on enough topics to fill this blog for the next six months: How do you  feed your family healthy, tasty, economical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Food vs. Small Food safety</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/big-food-vs-small-food-safety/archives/134</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:59:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sara</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ A post comparing airlines and food safety got me to thinking:  In general, is large-scale-produced food more safe than smaller-scale production?
One factor that is often not considered when we evaluate small-scale production  food safety is &#8220;assessment bias&#8221;.  If Joe&#8217;s 2 bushels of homegrown tomatoes from the farmer&#8217;s market are tainted with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conventional Vs. Organic Milk: No Meaningful Difference in Hormone Levels</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/conventional-vrs-organic-milk-no-meaningful-difference-in-hormone-levels/archives/130</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are pleased to present this guest post from Terry Etherton, who normally blogs here.
In the first peer-reviewed study of its kind, a paper***  published in the July issue of the prestigious Journal of the American Dietetic Association (JADA) reports the results of an in-depth survey study comparing retail milk for quality, nutritional value [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic milk less healthy than regular milk?</title>
		<link>http://downtoearthblog.com/foodproduction/organic-milk-less-healthy-than-regular-milk/archives/129</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING:  Take the headline with a grain of salt.
I came across a blog post claiming organic milk is worse than regular milk, and is in fact dangerous.  The blog editor has posted liberally elsewhere about dioxins in organic milk:  As background to the quote below, the author states that 80% of organic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Earthlinks, July 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:58:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Troublemaker Mom: From Science Women. I&#8217;ve sooo been there, and it seems particularly hard for moms in the hard sciences where there&#8217;s not much room for the warm-and-fuzzies integral to parenthood.
The chocolate genome:  Mars (the confection company, not the planet) is investing $10 million to help sequence the genome of the cacoa tree [...]]]></description>
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