The Future: six drivers of global change Part 121
577 with pollen from citrus varieties that have seeds
Ibid.
578 all of the major commodity crops
Union of Concerned Scientists, "Industrial Agriculture: Features and Policy," May 17, 2007, http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_industrial_agriculture/industrial-agriculture-features.html.
579 reliance on monocultures makes agriculture highly vulnerable to pests
Ibid.
580 stem rust began attacking wheat fields in Uganda
"Scientists in Kenya Try to Fend Off Disease Threatening Worlds Wheat Crop," PBS NewsHour, December 28, 2011, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/globalhealth/july-dec11/wheat_12-28.html.
581 Similarly, ca.s.sava
Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, "Virus Ravages Ca.s.sava Plants in Africa," June 1, 2010.
582 "The speed is just unprecedented"
Ibid.
583 Irelands heavy reliance on a monocultured potato strain from the Andes
Nicholas Wade, "Testing Links Potato Famine to an Origin in the Andes," New York Times, June 7, 2011.
584 destroyed in 1970 by a new variety of Southern corn leaf blight
Union of Concerned Scientists, "Industrial Agriculture: Features and Policy."
585 robust global work under way to genetically modify trees
Clive Cookson, "Barking Up the Right GM Tree?," Financial Times, July 20, 2012.
586 genes from one species into the genome of another
National Research Council, "Emerging Technologies to Benefit Farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia," 2009.
587 synthetic growth hormone in dairy cattle
Carina Storrs, "Hormones in Food: Should You Worry?," Health.com/Huffington Post, January 19, 2011.
588 elevated levels of IGF and a significantly higher risk of prostate cancer
Ibid.
589 for the labeling of milk with bovine growth hormone
Andrew Martin, "Consumers Wont Know What Theyre Missing," New York Times, November 11, 2007.
590 has significantly decreased its use
Dan Shapley, "Eli Lilly Buys Monsantos Dairy Hormone Business," Daily Green, August 20, 2008, http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/eat-safe/rbst-hormones-milk-470820; "Safeway Milk Free of Bovine Hormone," a.s.sociated Press, January 21, 2007.
591 into the embryos of dairy cows
Haze Fan and Maxim Duncan, "Cows Churn Out Human Breast Milk, " Reuters, June 16, 2011.
592 at the National Inst.i.tute of Agribusiness Technology
Robin Yapp, "Scientists Create Cow That Produces Human Milk," Telegraph, June 11, 2011.
593 intended for direct consumption by human beings
Harmon and Pollack, "Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food."