The following article is reprinted from the April 9, 1998 edition of Rachel’s Environment & Health Weekly. In the fall of 1996, award-winning reporters Steve Wilson and Jane Akre were hired by WTVT in Tampa to produce a series on … Continued
At the beginning of the 1990s, Monsanto Corporation’s recombinant bovine growth hormone (also known as BST, for bovine somatotropin and by its brand-name Posilac) was on its way to becoming the first bioengineered food product to be mass marketed. But … Continued
“What kind of farmers are we? Do we want to distinguish ourselves from other farmers?” Ben Sadeghi asks as he walks his small, family-run Kamuela dairy farm on the Big Island. Those “other farmers” he is referring to are some … Continued