GMO Africa
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Blog and news on the benefits of genetically modified food in Africa.
Archive for December, 2008
Call for technology to produce cellulosic ethanol
Published by GMO Africa | Filed under Biofuels
Jean Bernick, the editor of Farm Journal Crops & Issues, is exhorting us “to talk trash.” Funny, isn’t it? Hold back though, because Bernick is not asking you to spite the vilest epithet at your opponent. No! She wants a discussion on how the corncob, that we normally consider trash, can effectively be used to [...]
Vilsack targeted for his Pro-GMOs stand
Published by GMO Africa | Filed under GMO Africa Blog
One day after President-Elect Barak Obama picked Iowa Governor, Tom Vilsack, as Agriculture Secretary, anti-biotechnology activists are out in full force trying to paint him as an apologist for the biotech industry. Tara Lohan in an article on Alternet.org declares Obama is sending to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) “…a pro-GMOs, pro-Biofuels Ag [...]
Michigan smoothens the way for alternative energy investors
Published by GMO Africa | Filed under Biofuels
Michigan is about to enact a law to make readily available information on how to set up an alternative fuel production plant in the state.
The law, H.B. 5745 (PDF), requires the Department of Agriculture to publish, in plain language, all the procedures for “…preparing and executing applications and approvals necessary to establish an alternative fuels [...]