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Recombinant Protein Production In Yeast: Methods And Protocols

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Recombinant Protein Production in Yeast: Methods and Protocols examines the process of preparation of expression vectors, transformation to generate high-yielding clones, optimization of experimental conditions to maximize yields, scale-up to bioreactor formats and disruption of yeast cells to enable the isolation of the recombinant protein prior to purification.(More…)

Food and More: Expanding the (Good Food)  Movement for the Trump Era

While the article was published prior to the nomination of Sonny Perdue as Ag Secretary, anytime names like these come out with a joint statement we should take note. A few outtakes:

“... the food movement is rightly aghast at the agriculture transition team, which promised to “defend American agriculture against its critics, particularly those who have never grown or produced anything beyond a backyard tomato plant.” This nonsense is premised on the assumption that “American agriculture” is limited to the large industrial variety and that advocating that public investment serve the public interest is a bad thing. Yet the majority of farmers are clearly not being served by the current system, and the only sector of the food industry that’s actually growing today is the one that produces good food.”

The right to food in Canada

What would you say about hunger in Canada if the United Nations were to ask?

Canadians had to think hard about that question, and so did I when I was asked to speak before Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, during his visit to Canada in May.

Mr. De Schutter was on an eleven day mission to Canada, his first to a developed country, in order to map out Canada’s compliance with our international human rights commitments. He met with families on social assistance who find it hard to feed their children healthy food. He visited inner city neighbourhoods in Ontario and Quebec. And he traveled to remote aboriginal communities in Manitoba and Alberta.

You may remember from press reports that the UN envoy urged Canadian governments to put an end to the need for almost 900,000 Canadians to visit a food bank each month. He decried the fact that in such a wealthy nation, one in ten families with a child under six is unable to meet their daily food needs. “This is a country that is rich but that fails to adapt the levels of social assistance benefits and its minimum wage to the rising costs of basic necessities, including food and housing,” De Schutter said.

At least initially, federal government Ministers refused to meet him and discuss his findings. After his press statements however, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney angrily suggested De Schutter was wasting the UN's money by visiting a developed country. Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq then met with De Schutter, but strongly objected to his remarks on food issues facing aboriginals. “He’s ill-informed,” Aglukkaq told reporters; “In the Arctic, the food security issue is not about access to (food). It’s about fighting environmentalists trying to put a stop to our way of life.”

It is a bit like the iPod on shuffle throwing out mismatches. Sometimes the juxtapositions that come out on Facebook are striking.

Farmers Weekly have a feed to an article "Wallmart: Promising for agriculture" (link)

And Plaas have a feed to an article on Business Day:  OLIVIER DE SCHUTTER: Globalised food system has failed the poor (link)

Olivier de Schutter, the UNHCR's Special Commissioner on the right to food has just conducted a mission to South Africa.

His report is available here