Can I Have a Featherless Chicken and a Side of Healthy Bacon?
The New Scientist has a great round-up of the various efforts geneticists are undertaking to modify farm animals. The story doesn't break any new ground, per se, but it's remarkable for the sheer breadth of ways that genetic engineers are attempting to redesign animals.
As the New Scientist describes it:
- Bradley Kreit's blog
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Sustain Saskatchewan
"Trees make the prairies tolerable."
- Miriam Lueck Avery's blog
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"The Greenhorns" doc explores a new generation of American farmers
Building on the momentum of a series of high profile movies confronting the often appalling practices of food production in the US including Food, Inc. and Fast Food Nation, a new team of filmmakers is in the process of bringing audiences a fresh and much more optimistic take on the topic.
- David Evan Harris's blog
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Green Acres, Now Including Penthouse View
Vertical farms finally make the move from cybergreen fantasy to the pages of the New York Times. The logic is seductive: urban towers, filled not with more offices and apartments, but with food crops.
