Mar 28, 2007 - 10:28:32 AM Food & Health : Laws & Politics Montgomery first county to ban trans fat in restaurants The Montgomery County Council in Maryland on May 15 unanimously passed a resolution to ban the use of artificial trans fats in most foods served in County restaurants and at prepared food sections of supermarkets. Laws & Politics on food, diet and health Foodconsumer.org. Pusztai has been directly involved as a principal investigator in the researching of GM potatoes and what...

The FDA report follows a scare over melamine-contaminated pet food that was blamed for causing the deaths of an unknown number of dogs and cats in the United States. Fish farms have struggled to improve their own image amid concerns about pollution and complaints about the flavor of the products they produce. The earlier fears over contaminated feed are resurfacing concerns over aquaculture. On harvest day at American Gold Seafood company in Puget Sound, thousands of fat Atlantic salmon...

One of the better options is to feed hay a bit longer this spring before turning cows out to permanent pasture. Leftover hay also can be used later during the grazing season to give pastures more time to recover between grazings. But if the rains don't come, planning and acting now to reduce potential forage losses from drought will pay big dividends. So reserve some ground now for these drought-insurance grasses, before you plant everything to corn, beans, and other crops. Summer annual...

Alfalfa fields cover about 21 million acres nationwide, and about 1.1 million acres in California. A federal judge in San Francisco ordered farmers across the nation Thursday to stop planting Monsanto co.'s genetically modified Roundup Ready alfalfa seed because of the risk that it will contaminate nearby fields. District Court Judge Charles Breyer also ruled that the location of existing fields planted with the altered seed must be made public within 30 days, to alert neighboring farmers....

Two baby gorillas whose mothers were apparently unable to care for them have been raised by stand-in parents - a pair of zookeepers. The keepers tried to do "as few human things with them as possible" and behaved as gorillas would do, so they could one day be released alongside wild-born gorilla orphans. Kouki stayed with her mother for three months but ended up being left in the straw and mistreated by other gorillas while her mother went looking for food - something most other gorillas...