Hey. What's your beef?
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The Beef War
Moanin' over hormones
Hormonal politics
Nutty, dangerous genes
Guessing game?
Udder woes

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After the Human Genome Project

Antibiotic resistance

Fast fixes for fatness

Genetic engineering on the farm

Herbicide resistance and weeds

Paper
Allergies to Transgenic Foods--Questions of Policy, Marion Nestle, The New England Journal of Medicine, 14 March 14, 1996, pp. 726-8.

Crop Engineers on the Defensive, Chemical Week, March 3, 1999, p. 38.

Identification of a Brazil-Nut Allergen in Transgenic Soybeans, Julie Nordlee et al, The New England Journal of Medicine, 14 March, 1996, pp. 699-92.

Keeping Watch Over Genetically Modified Crops and Foods, John Beringer, The Lancet, Feb. 20, 1999, p. 605.

The Monsanto Roundup: Did Monsanto Fake Science? Gar Smith, Earth Island Journal, Winter, 1999, pp. 27 ff.

Playing God in the Garden, Michael Pollan, The New York Times, Oct. 25, 1998, magazine, pp. 44 ff.

Scientific Cross-Claims Fly in Continuing Beef War, Michael Balter, Science, May 28, 1999.

Seeds of Discontent, The Economist, Feb. 20, 1999, pp. 75-7.

Electronic
The National Cattlemen's Beef Association opposes the trade ban. Likewise the American Meat Institute.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service checks on hormone residues.

The last word on weight loss.

The credits page, naturally.


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