by Jacqueline Kochak | Oct 31, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Food Fraud, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Just Interesting, Public Health, Sustainability
Smithfield expanding pilot program: The world’s largest pork company said it’s going whole-hog on converting powerful pig poop gases into power. Smithfield Foods said it is expanding a pilot program that traps methane and burns the gas to generate...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Sep 18, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Emergency Response, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Public Health, Tariffs, The Future, Water Safety, Weather Emergencies
Sanderson Farms reports loss of broilers: Sanderson Farms, one of the country’s largest poultry producers, said in a notice to investors Monday that at least 1.7 million of its chickens had perished in North Carolina after dozens of broiler houses and other facilities...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Sep 4, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Emergency Response, Food Safety, Food Security, Tariffs, The Future, Water Safety
Editing our food’s DNA: A researcher with the biotech firm Calyxt is working the controls of a boxy robot that whirs like an arcade claw machine, dropping blips of DNA into tubes with pipettes. It’s building an enzyme that rewrites DNA — and transforming food...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Aug 11, 2018 | Animal Health, Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Safety, Food Security, Humanitarian Crises, Just Interesting, Public Health, Tariffs, Threat Intelligence
The business is complicated because snails are ‘pests’: On weekdays, Ric Brewer lives in Seattle and works as a communications manager for a disaster-relief nonprofit. But most weekends, he heads to his five-acre spread in Quilcene, among the foothills...
by Jacqueline Kochak | Jul 20, 2018 | Bobs Blog, Cyber Security, Food Safety, Food Security, Food Technology, Just Interesting, Tariffs, Terrorism, Uncategorized
Have you heard of ‘credential stuffing’? Selling stolen personal data is a big business for hackers: Somewhere on the dark web, your e-mail address and a few passwords are probably for sale (hopefully, old ones). Cyber criminals buy troves of this...
