The recently enacted GMO labeling law may cause a bitter rift in one U.S. industry if USDA uses its discretion and determines that products containing sugar from a certain source must be labeled. Bitter over Labeling The recently enacted GMO labeling law may cause a bitter rift in the U.S. sugar industry. If USDA uses its discretion and determines that products containing sugar from GM sugar beets must be labeled, this could encourage growers and importers of sugar from sugarcane, which is not genetically modified, to start a marketing campaign against their beet brethren. After all, food marketers have been using the Frankenfood scare tactic to cannibalize sales from competitors for years. Even if it turns out that most American consumer...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
Lobelia (/loʊˈbiːliə, lə-/[4][5][6]) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species,[7] with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.[8] They are known g...
The Alaska marmot (Marmota broweri), also known as the Brooks Range marmot[3] or the Brower's marmot,[4] is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. Once considered to be the same species as the hoary marmot, it is now known to be unique. Alaska marmots are found in the scree slopes of the...
From WPI Consulting
Like all marmots
An adult Vancouver Island marmot typically measures 65 to 70 centimetres (26 to 28 in) from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.