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DECATUR, Illinois: Archer Daniels Midland agreed to plead guilty Monday to two criminal price-fixing charges and will pay $100 million in fines. The agribusiness giant had been the target of a four-year long federal investigation into price-fixing in the sale of lysine, a feed supplement for livestock, and citric acid, which is used in soft drinks and detergents. In exchange for the plea agreement, ADM gains immunity against charges of alleged collusion in the sale of high-fructose corn syrup, according to reports the Wall Street Journal. The corn-syrup case was thought to be the most...
Before they could do that, however, they would need to know that a new outbreak was occurring. So the CDC and the WHO have jointly set up eight surveillance sites in China, where new flu strains almost always arise in livestock (mostly pigs and ducks) before jumping to humans. At these observation sites, health workers take tissue samples whenever a new wave of flu comes through and rush them to the CDC so that scientists can get started on designing a vaccine...
...version at Boston Market or, horrors!, take it out of a can. Even the subscribers who don't work may think twice before taking on her October 1994 project: "It occurred to us at MARTHA STEWART LIVING that we had never really focused on the pleasures of raising backyard livestock...
...worst on record," says U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist Ray Motha. Comparisons to the dry disasters of the 1930s strike most observers as inadequate. "We've looked at the stats back to 100 years ago," says Erik Ness, director of communications at the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau, "and there was more rain during the Dust Bowl than they are getting in Roosevelt County [on the state's eastern plains...
...record show that in the matter of human technology vs. the South American fire ant, technology has been its own worst enemy. Brought to the southern U.S. as shipboard stowaways in the 1930s, the fierce-biting ant (which likes to sink its mandibles not only into people and livestock, but also into electrical insulation, sometimes knocking out traffic lights) was officially targeted for eradication following the wartime development of DDT and other superpesticides. After three decades of spraying fire-ant territory with the killer compounds, however, the U.S. government was forced to concede defeat. It turns out the pesticides...