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Vegetarianism doesn’t cause cancer, despite what many news outlets reported...
Cancer, Evaluating the quality of evidence, Health care journalism, News releases, Story sources/independent perspectives genetic expert news service, vegetarian diets Guest blogger Robin Bisson is the...
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Grow Up! How to Transform Your Roof into a Garden or Farm
When the black cherry trees start budding in New York City, I know it’s time to get back into the garden. Like any good green thumb, I organize my seeds and start my transplants. I look back on last...
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Conflict-of-interest information is often buried deep in studies. These...
Look no further than the field of food science to see what a distorting force industry funding of scientific research can be. If it weren't for grape juice producers or nut growers eager to boost...
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Feel the Math
The Sanders campaign has come much further than almost anyone expected, to the point where Sanders can have a lot of influence on the shape of the race. But with influence comes responsibility, and...
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USDA Helps Military Veterans Explore Agriculture as a Career
Before serving in my current role at USDA, I served eight years in the U.S. Army and the Iowa National Guard, including a 15-month mobilization and deployment as a combat engineer in Kandahar,...
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U of Maryland review: researcher on flawed chocolate milk/concussions study...
Conflicts of interest, News releases chocolate milk, concussions, University of Maryland The University of Maryland (UMD) today acknowledged serious problems with the process that produced flawed...
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U.S. companies make case for keeping Cuba organic
Cuban farms could one day help to feed Americans’ burgeoning appetite for organic food. Amid the fanfare over President Barack Obama’s visit to Havana, U.S. officials and executives from major food...
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How the CIA managed to leave explosives on a special-needs school bus
Briar Woods High School, a half-hour drive from the CIA’s headquarters in Northern Virginia, might have provided an ideal training ground for the agency’s bomb-sniffing dogs. Its labyrinthine hallways...
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This New Netflix Documentary Will Inspire You To Make Dinner
It can seem like no one cooks anymore. Most grocery stores (and even some gas stations) have a wealth of pick-up options for hungry people at the end of a long day of work. Processed meals have made it...
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Potential dangers of glyphosate weed killers
By Devra Davis March 19th 2016 What do Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Sri Lanka, El Salvador, Brazil, and India have in common? They have banned the use of Roundup—the most heavily applied herbicide in the...
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In Taiwan, leftover food scraps help farmers sustain porky appetites
Every night, classical music blares from garbage trucks in Taipei, summoning people from their homes. In their hands, they clutch bags or buckets of kitchen scraps, which they dump into a bin on the...
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Grit and grace: Female Farmer Project reinvents traditional image of farming
FARMER JANYA VERANTH has updates for Audra Mulkern. Penny the sow, a newborn pink piglet when Mulkern visited Redfeather Farm in Duvall last year, has turned out to be a fabulous mother. “Come out, pig...
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Bill Gates
24 March 2016 General Superheroes are having something of a resurgence. Our children continue to be inspired by them. Older generations remember how we were once inspired. And the companies which own...
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Andrew Cuomo: Don't Remove Farmworkers from the NY State Minimum Wage!
Petitioning Governor Andrew Cuomo and 2 othersWorker Justice Center of New YorkWorker Justice Center of New YorkSupportersLike all other workers, the hardworking farm laborers who pick our apples, milk...
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Coal is parching the planet as well as cooking it, says new report
The burning of coal isn’t just cooking the planet through climate change, the fossil fuel is using large amounts of water in parts of the world where supplies of the most precious of natural resources...
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A group of North Carolina citizens is claiming that the state's $3 billion pork industry is disposing of hog waste in a way that disproportionately affects communities of color, and that the efforts to...
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5 Million Nigerians Oppose Monsanto's Plans to Introduce GMO Cotton and Corn
Millions of Nigerians are urging the Nigerian government to reject Monsanto‘s attempts to introduce genetically modified (GMO) cotton and maize into the country’s food and farming systems. One-hundred...
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French parliament votes for outright ban on neonicotinoid use
29 March 2016 14:49:23|Animal Health,Arable,Crops,News,Products The lower house of the French parliament, the French National Assembly, has narrowly passed a proposal for an outright ban on...
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