Who knew? Via The Lubin Files, news that FAO has a channel on YouTube.
Oliver Stone unavailable for comment.
To eat or not to eat, that is the question
I don’t know much about Verlyn Klinkenbord, but I like the way he thinks:
Anyone who really cares about food — its different tastes, textures and delights — is more interested in diversity than uniformity. As it happens, the same is true for anyone who cares about farmers and their animals. An agricultural system that favors cloned animals has no room for farmers who farm in different ways. Cloning, you will hear advocates say, is just another way of making cows. But every other way — even using embryo transplants and artificial insemination — allows nature to shuffle the genetic deck. A clone does not.
Read the rest of his New York Times editorial — Closing the barn door after the cows have gotten out.
Tangled Bank #97
The latest harvest of biological blogging is up at The Inoculated Mind, and a jolly good read it is too. The actual post, not the posts it points to, if you see what I mean. No time to read them right now, but I think I may have spotted a couple of things of interest. Did you?
PGR Newsletter published
The latest issue of PGR Newsletter, published by Bioversity International and FAO, is available online. It includes a tribute to Professor Jack Hawkes, a towering figure in the history of agricultural biodiversity, and much else of potential interest.
NOTE: The links on this post were updated on 23 June 2015 to reflect a new arrangement for the hosting of the PGR Newsletter.
Oekologie available
Happy Birthday Oekologie. The 13th edition of this monthly blog carnival is up and running, with lots of posts that should tickle the fancy of anyone interested in agriculture and our food supply: worm compost, overfishing, links between food and culture. Oh, and us.