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Study finds health issues with pigs consuming genetically modified foods

Environment

A new study linking consumption of genetically modified foods to stomach inflammation and reproductive problems in pigs is being used as fuel in the fight to have GM foods labeled in the United States. More than 20 states are currently considering related legislation.

Worries for Argentine soy farmers

Business, Economics and Jobs

Soy and Prostrate Cancer

The World

The Grass is Greener

The World

Hemp to Replace Tobacco Crop?

The World

Industrial Hemp Harvest in Deutschland

Newly legalized, textile mills are processing the country’s first modern harvest of industrial hemp. Michael Lawton reports from Germany on the new varieties of the crop, which cannot be made into marijuana, and the forecast for the multi-purpose crop’s financial success.

The World

Magic Seeds & the Miracle Crop

40 years ago scientists developed a soybean seed able to grown in Brazil’s vast tropical savannah. The crop has transformed the landscape and soon Brazil will be the world’s largest producer of soybeans. Now a new generation of soy seed is being introduce

Beans Vs. Trees in the Amazon

A new moratorium on growing soy beans in the Brazilian Amazon will use market forces to limit deforestation.

The World

Latin America’s commodity cushion

Business, Economics and Jobs

Commodity exports have soared in recent years and they’ve helped cushion Latin America from much of the global downturn. But many countries including Argentina are still vulnerable. Ian Mount sent us this report from Buenos Aires.

The World

Jim Steele

Environment

Journalist Jim Steele talks about why Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, has taken to patrolling small-town America in search of farmers who are violating its genetically-modified seed patents.