Government Work: The U.S. government announced the creation of a Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation in response to President Trump’s Executive Order on Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products. The website merely contains links to the individual websites of the agencies involved (EPA, USDA and FDA). For any real information, citizens must still parse through the disparate approaches of the three agencies. It is lipstick on a pig. Colorful Meat Terms: Channel 4 in the UK hosted a program around a controversial documentary entitled, “Apocalypse Cow: How Meat Killed the Planet.” Some of the comments as recounted by Food Navigator included:
The solution is converting farms in...
A pika (/ˈpaɪkə, ˈpiːkə/ PY-kə, PEE-kə[3][4]) is a small, mountain-dwelling mammal native to Asia and North America. With short limbs, a very round body, an even coat of fur, and no external tail, they resemble their close relative the rabbit, but with short, rounded ears.[5] The large-eared pi...
Gloriosa is a genus of 12 species in the plant family Colchicaceae, and includes the formerly recognised genus Littonia. They are native in tropical and southern Africa to Asia, and naturalised in Australia and the Pacific as well as being widely cultivated.[3] The most common English names are...
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...
