+Waste | August 12, 2011

Organic Farms May Keep Bacteria at Bay

By Tara Thean

Given how the cracks in our food system have recently expanded into troubling chasms – remember the ground turkey Salmonella scare, and the emergence of an antibiotic-resistant Salmonella strain – health experts are once again fretting about farms and the drugs used in them. And with good reason. Antibiotics may be some of the best [...]

+Health | January 13, 2011

Health: Using Genetic Engineering to Make Chickens Flu-Proof

By Bryan Walsh

On the main page I have a piece on a fascinating Science study that showed how scientists were able to genetically engineer chickens to make them virtually unable to pass on avian flu. That could have major implications for influenza—birds can spread new flu viruses to human beings—and for veterinary disease, if researchers can engineer [...]