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Essentially the idea, for which the secretary of agriculture Brooke Rollins has also voiced support, seems to be that survivors might become super chickens with innate resistance to bird flu.

Newsom made some good points in his announcement, citing the state’s national leadership in high technology, agriculture and access to venture funding, among other spheres.

One respondent goes as far as to call the Mexican secretary of agriculture a "worm talking about a worm."

With the rise of environmental awareness in the 1960s and '70s — Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” the backlash to pesticides, the fallout from industrial agriculture — processed foods became suspect.

In a crowning irony, even at the expense of 14.5 million lives lost, fully mechanized Soviet agriculture was no more efficient than the system it replaced.