farming Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:21:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg farming Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Genetically Modified Salmon: Food or ‘Frankenfish’? https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/09/24/6-genetically-modified-salmon-food-frankenfish/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/09/24/6-genetically-modified-salmon-food-frankenfish/#comments Thu, 25 Sep 2014 03:00:19 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=13519 A company called AquaBounty Technologies has created a new type of salmon that grows twice as fast as regular salmon.
Now it wants permission to sell the salmon as food.
But many people, including some scientists, say the company should not be allowed to farm or sell the salmon until we know more about the possible effects it could have on the environment and on human health.

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/09/24/6-genetically-modified-salmon-food-frankenfish/feed/ 1 Don’t Bother Stockpiling Nutella Just Yet https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/09/11/2-price-hazelnuts-go-nutella/ https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/09/11/2-price-hazelnuts-go-nutella/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:38:46 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=13578 A combination of bad weather and disease has damaged much of this year’s hazelnut crop.
Now people are worried that they will have to pay more for Nutella, the popular chocolate-hazelnut spread, and other products that contain hazelnuts.

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]]> https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/09/11/2-price-hazelnuts-go-nutella/feed/ 1 Chocolate May Soon Cost More https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/06/12/1-chocolate-may-soon-cost/ Fri, 13 Jun 2014 00:57:20 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=13325 The price for a bar of chocolate may soon be going up. That's because cocoa beans, the main ingredient in chocolate, are becoming harder to get.

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