Lifestyle › BSE and foot-and-mouth disease give beef producers plenty to chew on “Any of us would kill a cow, rather than not have beef.” While it’s unlikely that too many people nowadays would put Samuel Johnson’s words… [News Source]

Is genetically altered fish OK? U.S. to decide. U.S. health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers' dinner plates. [News Source]

Is genetically altered fish OK? U.S. to decide. U.S. health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers' dinner plates. [News Source]

Is genetically altered fish OK? FDA to decide U.S. health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers' dinner plates. [News Source]

PREVIEW-Is genetically altered fish OK? U.S. to decide (Repeats story originally published on Aug. 30) [News Source]

Orchids & Onions 8/28 Orchids: To Don Sipola for his recent letter to the editor outlining all the meetings involved with the Virginia Regional Medical Center. Orchids: To Bill Hanna for his various articles pertaining to the Virginia Regional Medical center. The bottom line: We all need a quality hospital in this area. [News Source]

Planet Ark This handout photo, released August 30, 2010, compares the size of its genetically engineered AquAdvantage Salmon (background) to an Atlantic salmon of the same age (foreground). [News Source]

Is genetically altered fish OK? U.S. to decide U.S. health officials are set to rule on whether a faster-growing, genetically engineered fish is safe to eat in a decision that could deliver the first altered animal food to consumers' dinner plates. [News Source]

Facts don’t Beck(on) some television pundits A strange, and to my mind inexplicable, thing happened to what we call “news” on the way to the end of the first decade of the 21st century. News is no longer what I, and my generation who studied journalism in what I call its Golden Age, were taught. It’s no longer a set of facts presented as dispassionately as possible, along with a side of opinion that was found primarily on the editorial ... [News Source]

PREVIEW-Is genetically altered fish OK? U.S. to decide * Fish could be first genetically altered animal for food [News Source]