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 Wall Street Journal 
U.S. Loosens Sugar-Import Rules
Fri 20 Aug 2010
By BILL TOMSON And TOM SELLEN WASHINGTON—The U.S. has loosened rules on its sugar imports in a bid to mitigate the effects of tight global supplies. Experience WSJ professional Editors' Deep... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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 Houston Chronicle 
Growers: USDA must act, prevent sugar supply issue
Fri 20 Aug 2010
DES MOINES, Iowa - A judge's ruling halting planting of genetically modified sugar beet seeds has left growers feeling uncertain as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a crop... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Sugar - Sweetener - Commodity  The New York Times  Fri 20 Aug 2010
Growers: Feds Must Act, Prevent Sugar Supply Issue
Filed at 3:22 a.m. ET DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Some sugar beet growers are uneasy as they wait for federal officials to decide the next step for a crop that provides half the nation's sugar supply. A... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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Corn - Grain - Commodity  The Press Democrat  Wed 18 Aug 2010
Italian farmer pushes genetically modified crops
It's a provocation. The Italian farmer's corn is genetically modified, grown surreptitiously in fields in the northeast not far from the Austrian and Slovene borders. "Our biggest goal is to show... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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Corn - Crops Star Tribune Wed 18 Aug 2010
Rogue Italian farmer sows more debate over genetically modified foods with 2 fields of corn
PORDENONE, Italy - Giorgio Fidenato has made a habit of carrying a raw ear of yellow corn and taking a hearty bite whenever a camera is in sight. It's a provocation. The... (photo: WN / sweet)
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Chocolate Candy The Examiner Wed 18 Aug 2010
Moderate chocolate consumption lowers your risks of heart failure, but can you eat just an ounce?
In any Sacramento food market, in the bakery section, you can buy 100 cacao chocolate, melt it, and add your own flavoring or sweetener. According to an August 17, 2010... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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Cow - Agriculture - Farming - Animal PhysOrg Wed 18 Aug 2010
Medicine may be key to cloning's future
--> The cloning of animals may have come from agriculture, but its real promise may be in the lucrative field of medicine rather than as food.... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
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Goats - Animal - Livestock CBS News Tue 17 Aug 2010
A Look at Some of Earth's Rarest Baby Animals
This summer you may have taken a trip to your local zoo, but you probably didn't see what we had on "The Early Show" plaza Tuesday. Take another, up-close look at some of... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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Sugar Price The Examiner Tue 17 Aug 2010
Controversial genetically modified sugar now illegal
The US Federal Court in California revoked the USDA's approval of Monsanto's GM "Roundup Ready" sugar beet, prohibiting seed sales, plantings and crop sales until an... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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Sugar - Commodity Wall Street Journal Mon 16 Aug 2010
Food Firms Jarred by Sugar-Beet Restriction
By SCOTT KILMAN A federal judge's decision Friday to undo the government's five-year-old approval of genetically modified sugar beets, from which roughly half of U.S.... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
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