A group of international scientists from the U.S. and EU have released a peer-reviewed pilot study that suggests the anogenital distance of baby girls is becoming more male-typical, due to their mothers being exposed to glyphosate when they are in the womb.

Imagine a world where algorithms are used to optimize growing conditions on every fertile square metre of land, where food is treated like a strategic asset and food transit routes are militarized, many foods are grown in petri dishes, vats, and bioreactors. This may sound like science fiction. But the "4th industrial revolution" is already sweeping through food systems. 

For thousands of years of human agriculture, seeds were freely exchanged and shared. All that changed in the 1990s when laws were introduced to protect new bioengineered crops. Today, four corporations — Bayer, Corteva, ChemChina and Limagrain — control more than 50% of the world's seeds. These staggering monopolies dominate the global food supply.

Around the world, the deadly dangers of a weedkiller called paraquat are well known. When working with the highly toxic herbicide, farmers and other users take care not to splash or spill even small amounts of the product, heeding regulatory warnings that just a tiny amount – if swallowed – will kill them.