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2012 In The Rear-View Mirror: What You Liked

January 1, 2013 By Maryn Leave a Comment


Happy New Year, constant readers. For the second year in a row, here’s my list of which of my posts (91 in 2012!) most moved you to react. Last year (find that list here), I counted down based on which posts provoked the most comments. This year, Wired installed a tweet-counter — which registers only if someone clicks through from Twitter, but not if the post’s URL is mentioned or RT’d — so I thought it would be amusing to score posts that way this year.

And the verdict is: You care enormously about food policy, but you continue to be fascinated by the emergence of scary diseases — and, to my surprise and pleasure, you care about public understanding of science as well.

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, antibiotics, chagas, chicken, diabetes, FDA, NRDC, poultry, Resistance, Science Blogs, shrimp, TB

Also Receiving Antibiotics on Factory Farms: Shrimp

February 24, 2012 By Maryn Leave a Comment

Tom Philpott of Mother Jones had a great post earlier this week looking at the vast environmental damage caused by shrimp farming in South and Southeast Asia. He takes off from a presentation at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science by J. Boone Kauffman of Oregon State University, which examined the destruction of coastal mangrove forests that allows shrimp farms to be established and found that shrimp’s carbon footprint is 10 times higher than that of beef cattle. Tom says:

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Filed Under: Science, Science Blogs, Superbug Tagged With: agriculture, animals, antibiotics, China, FDA, food, food policy, Science Blogs, shrimp, Vietnam

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