“The chaps in Britain who are against fox hunting aren’t for the fox,” said Brazilian farmer Luiz Marcos Suplicy Hafers. “They’re against the rest of us having any fun.”
The out-spoken opponents of biotechnology may have thought that they were on a roll a couple of years ago, when a few California counties banned the planting of GM crops. Perhaps they think they’re on a roll again, with this summer’s decision by the board of supervisors in Santa Cruz County, also in California, to issue its own moratorium.
Brazilians know a thing or two about rivers. The Amazon River is to them what the Mississippi River is to us--except that it’s much bigger, holding more water than the next six largest rivers in the world combined.
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“The chaps in Britain who are against fox hunting aren’t for the fox,” said Brazilian farmer Luiz Marcos Suplicy Hafers. “They’re against the rest of us having any fun.”
I knew the E. coli outbreak that’s been linked to fresh spinach was big news when I read a newspaper story about it--on the other side of the world.
It’s purple, shaped like a billy club, and full of seeds. So why do we call it an eggplant?
The out-spoken opponents of biotechnology may have thought that they were on a roll a couple of years ago, when a few California counties banned the planting of GM crops. Perhaps they think they’re on a roll again, with this summer’s decision by the board of supervisors in Santa Cruz County, also in California, to issue its own moratorium.
Brazilians know a thing or two about rivers. The Amazon River is to them what the Mississippi River is to us--except that it’s much bigger, holding more water than the next six largest rivers in the world combined.
