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...peer deeply into the soul of the region, you must visit the independent producers, makers of the so-called grower champagnes. Such vignerons carry on a love affair with their land, often treating the soil and environment with reverential respect. It shows in their complex wines. If you call for an appointment, they will receive you with grace. Some of those I visited and adored were Camille Saves in Bouzy, Jacquesson in Dizy, Larmandier-Bernier in Vertus and Leclerc Briant in Epernay...
...pesticide violations and child labor. The expose became known on Capitol Hill as the "Mexican death tape." But today several activists have grown quieter, charging that grocery chains are retaliating by canceling orders. "The markup is so outrageous, they don't want anyone messing with it," says a tomato grower. Luis Rodriguez, a consultant for Florida Farmers Inc., an advocacy group, says he listened in on a conversation in which a Wal-Mart official told a supplier that he planned to stop buying from farmers promoting mandatory labeling. Says Rodriguez: "These guys are scared." A Wal-Mart representative denied...
...Wong sat transfixed before a computer monitor, watching stock prices and anxiously awaiting her big payoff. Shares of vegetable grower China Green Holdings began trading for the first time on Jan. 13, and Wong, a 50-year-old garment importer-exporter, was one of the lucky few who had obtained shares of the hot China stock at its initial public offering (IPO) price of 16?. That was no easy task, since retail investors ordered 1,604 times more shares than China Green had undertaken to sell, making it the most popular IPO in Hong Kong history. On the opening...
...Though genetically modified foods are consumed by millions of Americans without apparent ill effects, many Europeans are wary of them. Some imports are allowed into the Union, but a handful of member states placed a moratorium on approvals for new imports in 1998. The U.S., the world's biggest grower of GM crops, wants to be able to export its GM food. Green groups and some European officials charge America with deliberately sending GM maize to Southern Africa to force a showdown, while American officials believe the E.U. exploited Zambian concerns to bolster its own anti-GM views...
What could be better for the environment than a cheap, simple way for farmers to double or triple their output while using fewer pesticides on less land? According to Rockefeller University environmental scientist Jesse Ausubel, if the world's average farmer achieved the yield of the average American maize grower, the planet could feed 10 billion people on just half the crop land in use today. Of course it's possible that some genetically modified foods may carry health risks to humans (although none have so far been proved in foods that have been brought to market...