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Scientists said on Friday they have confirmed expanding weed resistance to a key ingredient in Monsanto's widely used Roundup herbicide, a troubling development for farmers and fresh fodder for Monsanto critics.
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It is insulting to the memory of so many brave people to state categorically that resistance doesn't work. Of course it works. But people have to actually do it, and keep doing it for the long haul.
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The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks taught us one thing-that hoping for intelligent responses to climate change from the world's governments is an exercise in futility. It's just not going to happen in time.
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The USDA rolled out its first proposal for national organic standards in late 1997 and within weeks the verdict was decisive: universal repudiation, to put it mildly. The Department typically received scores, maybe a few hundred public comments on...
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Who benefits the most from current U.S. farm policy? "Farmers" is an obvious answer-but it may not be entirely correct.
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With the cost of food recently skyrocketing - hitting not just shoppers but the poor and hungry in the developing world - genetically modified (GM) foods are once again being promoted as the way to feed the world. But this is little short of a...
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By the time Anthony McKinney gets out of prison, he will have missed his 20s entirely. He's 28 now, a compact man with a short mohawk and a tattoo of a chain on his neck. "When I get out, I'll be only 30 years old, and I'll have 13 years of prison...
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In the early twenty-first century, when surgery can be done microscopically and human achievement seems limitless, 2.6 billion people lack the most basic thing that human dignity requires. Four in ten people in the world have no toilet. They must...
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By now it is obvious to almost everyone that food politics has captured center stage. Invite best-selling author Michael Pollan to a university campus and it stirs enormous controversy. A student writes a column in the school newspaper about the...
