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Growing Meat Without Animals ... Would You Eat It?

Posted by: Dr. Mercola December 12 2009   Scientists have figured out how to grow tiny nuggets of lab meat and say it will one day be

Watermelon: Fruit on the Fast Track

ARS News ServiceAgricultural Research Service, USDAAnn Perry, (301) 504-1628, ann.perry@ars.usda.govDecember 11, 2009--View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr--Follow us on Twitter ...
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How Much Corn Stover can a Corn Grower Pick?

___________________________________________ ARS News Service Agricultural Research Service, USDA Don Comis, (301) 504-1625, donald.comis@ars.usda.gov September 21, 2009 --View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at www.ars.usda.gov/is/pr ___________________________________________ How much corn crop ...
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Water Hardness Plays a Role in Removing Bacteria from Chicken Skin

ARS News ServiceAgricultural Research Service, USDASharon Durham, (301) 504-1611, sharon.durham@ars.usda.govJuly 23, 2009--View this report online, plus photos and related stories, at www.ars.usda.gov/is/prReducing water hardness may ...
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Iceberg lettuce goes healthier

Friday May 22, 2009 (foodconsumer.org) -- Called the “polyester of lettuce,” iceberg lettuce has fallen out of flavor, so to speak, in recent years. In ...
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ARS preserves plants and animals for future needs

By Kim KaplanMay 15, 2009When the Russian wheat aphid spread to the United States in 1986, all of the country's commercial wheat was susceptible to ...
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New techniques developed for TSE testing

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) chemist Eric Nicholson and veterinarian Robert Kunkle have found a way to facilitate the diagnosis of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs), a ...
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Botulism Assay Quickly Detects Potent Foodborne Toxin

Though cases of botulism food poisoning aren't common in the United States today, they're nonetheless of concern to food safety researchers. That's why Agricultural Research ...
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Food supplements that fortify fowl

Poultry infected with the parasite Eimeria maxima usually develop avian coccidiosis, a disease estimated to cost producers globally more than $1.2 billion every year. So ...
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ARS investigate genes involved in forming plum pits

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are making progress in determining the genes that control pit formation in plums--the first step in a project to develop ...
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