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For decades, the biotech industry has spun a narrative around genetically engineered crops that could be summed up very simply as “jam tomorrow, instead of bread and butter today.”S…
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Factory Farmed Turkeys—Nothing to be Thankful For
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Thanksgiving dinner means only one thing for millions of us: turkey. Of the 100 million turkeys on farms around the U.S., 46 million of them will be eaten on Thanksgiving Day. Americans will con…
Read moreHow Climate Change Is Changing the Menu—and What We Can Do About It
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What will we eat in the future? What was once an rhetorical musing has now become the critical question of our time as scientists grapple with tricky questions about life—and larde…
Read moreUSDA Opens the Door to New Untested, Unlabeled GMOs
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Our right to know if it’s GMO is officially under attack—again.On June 6, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) proposed to overhaul longstanding regulations governing genetically modified organis…
Read moreAre Factory Farmers Winning the Antibiotics War?
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) calls antibiotic resistance “one of the biggest public health challenges of our time.” In the U.S., at least 2 million people get a…
Read moreGenetically Engineered Farm Animals: Regulators Rush to Keep Consumers in the Dark
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If the biotech industry has its way, the meat, eggs and milk on your plate could soon come from genetically engineered farm animals—and without laws requiring these products to be l…
Read moreOCA Helps Mayan Communities Fight Back Against Monsanto
ConsultaIndigenaMaya 750×500 Monsanto has a long history of sneaking around—or outright violating—the law. Nowhere has that been more evident lately[…]
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