Organic Biotech
AUG 16, 2014
Pamela Ronald , University of California, Davis Professor of Plant Pathology and author of Tomorrow’s Table, talks about the many uses of genetic modifications of plants. Genetically modified foods today are saving lives in developing countries with vitamin enrichment, flood, and insect resistance—complementing, rather than replacing organic farming practices.
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Saving the Farm, Fighting Red Tape
AUG 16, 2014
Martha Boneta, an organic farmer from Paris, Virginia, tells how zoning regulators and local elected officials turned her idyllic dream into a long-running bureaucratic nightmare, after they shut her down for … throwing a birthday party for 10-year-olds. After more than a year in court, she’s emerged successful with the bipartisan Boneta Bill, which encourages sustainable small family farming, passing in both house of the Virginia legislature.
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Bill Frezza 
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