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...Friday-night lights begin to burn on another high school football season, a not-so-quiet revolution is emerging in Southern states, where prayers are considered as much a part of football as Frito pies and hot chocolate. In nearly two dozen season openers earlier this month, students and religious groups came up with ingenious ways to protest--and in some instances, defy--the court's decision. For the faithful in the Christian heartland, praying on game night is the latest in a series of new constitutional maneuvers to circumvent laws that they consider to be secular oppression. Already...
...angry consumers. Meanwhile, Greenpeace began to target U.S. companies such as Gerber, which quickly renounced the use of transgenic ingredients, and Kellogg's, which has yet to do so. With so-called Frankenfoods making headlines, several other companies cut back on biotech: McDonald's forswore genetically engineered potatoes, and Frito-Lay decreed it would buy no more genetically modified corn...
...Dick Thompson. In addition, the stakes are high: Biotech crops already account for about one half of the nation's soybeans and cotton, one third of all corn, and smaller amounts of canola, potatoes and squash. And in the wake of recent consumer-driven decisions by McDonald's and Frito-Lay to stop accepting genetically modified potatoes, there's little doubt the American anti-GM movement is gathering momentum. Industry leaders hope to stop that force in its tracks by enlisting the help of the Food and Drug Administration. "The failure of GM foods in Europe was directly linked...
McDonald's has decided to put public relations before profit in rejecting the use of genetically modified potatoes for its famed french fries. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that McDonald's, Frito-Lay and other fast-food and snack-food companies are pulling genetically modified (GM) potatoes from the fryer and quietly telling their suppliers to stick to non-GM varieties. In fact, potato wholesalers have received so many requests for non-genetically modified potatoes that they have asked farmers to stop growing the "NewLeaf" potato, developed by Monsanto, which is equipped with a gene that protects it from...
...being STUPID, Kingfish?" said the Frito Bandito, as he began to deal the next hand. "If you could ever get white folks to admit that black folks are owed reparations for slavery, they'd probably try to pay it off with Confederate money...