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Canadian court rejects environmental group’s appeal in AquaBounty lawsuit
Undercurrent News | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Food NewsCanada's Federal Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal brought by the group Ecojustice on behalf of the Ecology Action Centre and Living Oceans Society against Canada's Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change. AquaBounty was also named in that suit, the firm said in a release. The suit had challenged the government's grant of permission to AquaBounty to allow production of its AquaAdvantage salmon for commercial use at a Prince Edward Island plant.
It might be time to reconsider your decision to buy only organic.
Cosmopolitan | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Food NewsBeing the conscientious and considerate person that you are, you’re trying to be an environmentally friendly consumer. You read on the internet that farming is part of the problem, so you shop only for local organic produce at Whole Foods, and as for GMOs? Ain’t nobody got time for that.
Britain’s GMO Liberation
The Wall Street Journal | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Food NewsThe promise of Britain’s exit from the European Union is to liberate the U.K. from the shackles of damaging EU regulations. So congratulations to Theresa May’s government for scoring its first Brexit victory by getting away from one of Brussels’s worst food obsessions.
Would You Buy a Genetically-Engineered Cashmere Sweater?
The Atlantic | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Agriculture NewsCashmere is not merely goat hair.
An update on the tri-state water wars
Southern Legislative Conference | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Rural NewsAn important turning point in the pre-existing litigation over water resources in the ACF River Basin came in 2011, when the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit reversed and vacated a 2009 District Court ruling from the Middle District of Florida.D The Eleventh Circuit held that the District Court lacked jurisdiction over claims made by Alabama, Southeastern Federal Power Customers, and Apalachicola because they did not challenge final agency action by the Corps as required by the Administrative Procedure Act.
Spain court overturns bullfighting ban
Spanish News Today | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Rural NewsThe ruling of the Constitutional Court, the highest in Spain, is that the regional law baning bullfighting trespassed on culture in which only the national government is empowered to legislate.
Jury finds occupiers of Oregon wildlife refuge not guilty
High Country News | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Rural NewsA jury found seven defendants not guilty of charges filed against them for their part in the 41-day armed occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in January and February. Ammon Bundy, Ryan Bundy and five others were charged with conspiracy to prevent federal employees at the refuge from doing their jobs by intimidation, threats or force. Some of the defendants were also charged with having firearms at a federal facility; the 12-person jury acquitted the occupiers of those charges as well.
EPA Probes Dicamba Use
DTN | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Agriculture NewsThe drama over possible illegal use of dicamba continues. The Environmental Protection Agency has confirmed that it executed federal search warrants at several southeastern Missouri locations as part of an investigation into alleged misuse or misapplication of dicamba onto herbicide-tolerant soybeans and cotton. The agency said in a formal statement that the activity was part of an ongoing criminal inquiry and stems from widespread complaints of damage to sensitive crops across Missouri and several other states in the Midwest and Southeast.
Massachusetts: Residents rally to close animal farm
Herald News | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Rural NewsA group of residents are rallying to shut down the controversial tenant farm at 465 American Legion Highway. This comes after news last week and subsequent public outcry that some animals removed in July have now returned to the farm – part of a case that some authorities call the largest farm abuse case in the Northeast. Selectmen and state legislators have been in contact with the Attorney General’s office and State Rep. Paul Schmid and Sen. Michael Rodrigues are pushing for a meeting.
Wild cat brains: An evolutionary curveball
Science Daily | Posted onNovember 1, 2016 in Rural NewsThe brains of wild cats don’t necessarily respond to the same evolutionary pressures as those of their fellow mammals, humans and primates, indicates a surprising new study. Arguably, the fact that people and monkeys have particularly large frontal lobes is linked to their social nature. But cheetahs are also social creatures and their frontal lobes are relatively small. And leopards are solitary beasts, yet their frontal lobes are actually enlarged. So what gives? Surprisingly, overall brain size did not differ, on average, between the social and solitary species of wild cats.