Every food stream that we have now will be tapped to a higher level.
Asked whether McDonald's continues to make food from genetically altered crops, Mr. Riker said: "Yes, because it's in the food stream.
According to Jeff Drake, an operations director in Tyson's Renewable Energy group, none of the fuel feedstock comes from the food stream.
A primary goal of the research in Puget Sound is to propose ways to safely direct seaweeds into the human food stream.
The budget proposes cuts in the WIC program (which supports women, infants and children), in international food and health aid (18 million people would be immediately cut off from a much-needed food stream, and 4 million would lose access to malaria medicine) and in programs that aid farmers in underdeveloped countries.
The company says it has accounted for 90percentt of the 350,000 acres planted in 2000, but it admits that the 1998 and 1999 harvests are either buried on farms and elevators (in an undocumented fashion) or have already reached the market and entered the food stream.
In ohmic heating an electrical current is applied to a flowing food stream, and the material is sterilised by internally generated heat.
Additionally, analytical chemists/biochemists can monitor, and assist in ensuring, that only those GM crops that are approved for distribution enter either food stream.
Co-existence of both food types requires that we be able to follow GM crops throughout the food system from "farm to fork"—and verify the absence, limited presence, or presence of GM food in the non-GM food stream.
Mr. Widell hopes that New York's initiative will spur other cities to divert their own food waste streams to operations like the company's Wilmington Organic Recycling Center, which has the capacity to take in another 150 tons of waste a day.
