| WASHINGTON -- A new kind of genetically modified crop under the brand name of "Enlist" -- known by its critics as "Agent Orange corn" -- has opponents pushing U.S. regulators to scrutinize the product more closely and reject an application by Dow AgroSciences to roll out its herbicide-resistant seeds. BLOG POSTS  | John Robbins: Pink Slime and Mad Cow Disease: Coming to a Burger Near You
This recent case of mad cow disease could be an isolated case. It could amount to nothing more than a fleeting news item. That, certainly, is what the U.S. meat industry would like officials to think, and what it would like consumers to believe. |  | Leila Deen: Clean Energy: If Apple Can't Afford to Think Different, No One Can
Those Apple stores are so beautiful. All pale and linear - clean clean clean. The irony is poignant. As we pointed out in our report, How Clean is your Cloud, Apple is in fact powering their iCloud with coal. |  | Elliott Negin: You Can Cut Your Carbon Emissions 20 Percent Over the Next Year
"The most important single change for most Americans would be to trade in their gas-guzzler for a more fuel-efficient car... At today's gas prices, that would save you as much as $18,000 over the 15-year life of the car." |  | Taras Grescoe: 7 Reasons Not to Own a Car
Cars aren't going to disappear any time soon. They're pretty handy for deliveries and carrying loads. But as gas prices creep ever upwards, and the exurbs continue to die a slow death, we're going to be relying on them less and less. |  | Michael Greger, M.D.: Mad Cow California: Stop Feeding Cows Chicken Manure
Cattle remains are still fed to chickens and the poultry litter is fed back to cows. In this way, prions -- the infectious proteins that cause mad cow disease -- may continue to cycle back into cattle feed and complete the cow "cannibalism" circuit blamed for the spread of the disease. | | MOST POPULAR ON HUFFINGTONPOST.COM |
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