Big food corporation's fear may hamper biotech acceptance (7/22/2003) Market forces -- most notably, the bottom line of major national and international corporations -- may have more to do with resolving food safety concerns than all the protests and demonstrations by activist organizations.
A New Look At Birth Defects (7/12/2003) (AP) Babies born in major wheat-producing counties were twice as likely to have birth defects as those born in rural counties with low wheat production, a new federal study shows.
Excess US manufacturing capacity still problem for farmers (7/7/2003) Southwest Farm Press via NewsEdge Corporation : A recent issue of Business Week contained a news report that caught my eye. The article noted that "factories are awash with excess capacity" and that the capacity utilization rate in manufacturing was only 72.5 percent during April 2003.
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