March 2009

  • Brooklyn’s Baldor Builds Bigger Baldor Specialty Foods, in the Bronx borough of New York City, started up 16 years ago with only a “handful” of employees, said Michael Muzyk, company president. It has now grown to more than 600 employees and will soon be moving into a new, state- of-the-art distributing and processing plant.
  • Building Breeds Through Biotech The use of genetically modified organisms (GMO) is growing every year, despite vocal opponents of the technology. But GM crops have the potential to be better for the environment and better for end users, said Sharon Bomer, the acting vice president of food and agriculture for the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
  • One Bad Apple

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