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The Food and Drug Administration is just steps away from approving the first-ever genetically-altered meat for human consumption, in the form of salmon that grows twice as fast as its non-modified cousins. Also: Meet the "enviropig," a Canadian-developed swine that produces less phosphorus pollution in its manure. [NYTimes]