TRIESTE, Italy - The U.S. is shifting its strategy against Afghanistan's drug trade, phasing out funding for opium eradication while boosting efforts to fight trafficking and promote alternate crops, the U.S. envoy for Afghanistan said Saturday. The aim of the new policy: to deprive the Taliban of the tens of millions of dollars in drug revenues that are fueling its insurgency.
HONOLULU, Aug. 14 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Citing possible harm to Hawaii's 329 endangered and threatened species, a federal district judge has ruled that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in permitting the cultivation of drug-producing, genetically engineered crops throughout Hawaii. The court found that USDA acted in "utter disregard" of the ESA, and also violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), by failing to conduct even preliminary investigations prior to its approval of the plantings. The August 10 decision represents the first federal court ruling ever on "biopharming," the controversial practice of genetically altering food crops to produce experimental drugs and industrial compounds.
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have announced that assistance will be available to farmers whose crops were damaged by severe flooding from Tropical Storms Irene and Lee. USDA and FDA are working closely together to ensure that farmers with flood-damaged crops that cannot be marketed are compensated for their losses. FDA considers ready-to-eat crops whose edible portion has been in contact with flood waters to be adulterated due to potential exposure to sewage, animal waste, heavy metals, pathogenic microorganisms, or other contaminants. Therefore, these crops should not enter the food or animal feed supply. Crops insured by federal crop insurance or by the Noninsured Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) are covered when floodwater...
This regulation establishes an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of amides, C-C, N- [3-(dimethylamino)propyl]; (CAS Reg. No. 1044764-00-2) and amides, C-C, N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]; (CAS Reg. No. 1044764-06-8) when used as inert ingredients (surfactants) in pesticide formulations applied to growing crops and raw agricultural commodities after harvest. Monsanto Company submitted a petition to EPA under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), requesting establishment of an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance. This regulation eliminates the need to establish a maximum permissible level for residues of amides, C-C, N-[3- (dimethylamino)propyl]; (CAS Reg. No. 1044764-00-2) and amides, C-C, N-[3-(dimethylamino)propyl]; (CAS Reg. No. 1044764-06-8).
DES MOINES, Iowa - The soybean industry is seeking government approval of a genetically modified soybean it says will produce oil lower in saturated fat, offer consumers a healthier alternative to foods containing trans fats and increase demand for growers' crops. Demand for soybean oil has dropped sharply since 2005, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration began requiring labels to list levels of trans fats, which have been linked to coronary heart disease. Vegetable oil does not naturally contain trans fats, but when hydrogen is added to make it suitable for use in the food industry, trans fats are created.
The soybean industry is seeking government approval of a genetically modified soybean that it says will produce oil lower in saturated fat, offering consumers a healthier alternative and increasing demand for growers' crops. Demand for soybean oil has dropped sharply since 2005, when the Food and Drug Administration began requiring labels to list levels of trans fats.
Waukesha -- Drug officers are calling the discovery of an indoor marijuana growing operation in the Town of Mukwonago the most elaborate and sophisticated found in Waukesha County. The operation was capable of producing three crops per year, Waukesha County Metropolitan Drug Enforcement Unit Commander Capt. Charles Wood said. The current crop was valued at more than $100,000, he said.
... guerrillas and protect rich landowners and drug lords. Decades of struggle by the various armed gr... out by the government to eradicate illicit crops. (30) . A further severe limitation of the system ...
Does the United States owe a special debt to Latin America? Are the poor immigrants streaming across our borders forced to flee their homelands because our past actions have impoverished their nations? Something akin to that sentiment is common enough in the immigration debate. It casts the United States as an imperial aggressor, exploiting its poorer southern neighbors, among other nefarious deeds. In fact, the United States bears guilt for various misdeeds in Latin America. It's shameful that we armed both sides in certain civil wars, that our drug-war herbicide destroys the crops of poor farmers without compensation, and that we sometimes propped up Latin American dictators as part of our proxy war against the Soviet Union.
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