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...Their papers cap a year of remarkable research, in which scientists have surged ahead of ethicists and politicians in finding ever more clever ways to generate stem cells. But where other breakthroughs relied on using cells from living embryos - tiny bits of inchoate life, fraught with ethical issues - the work by Yamanaka and Thomson sidesteps that abyss by nursing adult cells into a state in which their cellular destiny is yet to be fulfilled. No embryos, no eggs, no hand-wringing over where the cells come from and whether it is ethical to make them in the first place...
...European Commission on Tuesday addressed the issue head-on when it proposed reforms to the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the skein of price supports, export subsidies, and environmental payments that gobbles up 44% of the E.U.'s $187 billion annual budget...
...Dubbed a "health check" for the CAP, the policy review suggests revamping the Union's single biggest policy domain to better address modern challenges like climate change, the boom in biofuels, water management and protecting biodiversity. The Commission floats once heretical ideas such as phasing out milk quotas, scrapping rules on keeping land fallow and guaranteeing minimum cereal prices...
...proposed reforms aim, too, to tackle what many consider the CAP's most egregious element: the generous flow of aid to the largest farms and the wealthiest landowners. While most of the CAP budget is dispersed as direct aid to farmers, most of that goes to the largest farmers. Another large chunk goes toward other CAP schemes such as export refunds to large companies, storage outlays and payments to slaughterhouses to offset costs of measures to eradicate BSE, or Mad Cow Disease...
...owns three farms in Denmark - says the proposed changes would redirect farm aid to those who really need it. They slash subsidies above $147,000 by 10%, above $296,000 by 20% and above $443,000 by 45%. "We need to look at whether we need to adjust the CAP for an E.U. of 27 countries and a rapidly changing world," Fischer Boel said. "The changes I propose will make a real difference for farmers, consumers and taxpayers...