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In Defense of Roundup©

This week a presidential executive order declared the herbicide glyphosate “crucial to the national security and defense” because it allows “farmers and ranchers to maintain high yields and low pro…

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Today: Trump's order makes glyphosate a strategic national resource and shields producers from lawsuits tinyurl.com/yfccenm6 With most major US crops are now worth less than what it costs to produce them, rice farmers want to be paid them to destroy what they've harvested. tinyurl.com/5n928xu5

Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, Every child deserves a safe and nurturing hom...

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Giant leap forward in American chestnut restoration www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration

More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...

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Black Swans, Processed Food, and Eugenics in the Blue Ridge

To hikers in Shenandoah National Park, Corbin Hollow is a procession of forested hillsides, copperheads, and collapsed chimneys. But the hollow is filled with ghosts. In collaboration with document…

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Incredible, mind-blowing, life-changing interview. I can't even. exchange.prx.org/pieces/59592...

Glenn Davis Stone, PhD, author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, discusses the legend and unintended consequences of the Green Revolution.

Did you know that the “Green Revolution” is a cultural narrative that is rarely questioned? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Glenn Dav...

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Marcus Taylor @marcusetaylor.bsky.social · last yr.

The agriculture industry loves to depict indigenous farmers as slack jawed cretins. But there is a whole world of interesting work on SKILL. Fresh off the press blog www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/spe...

Special issue: where do skills reside in agriculture? - Institute of Development Studies

Where do skills reside? Do they dwell in people, in practices, in technologies? The question might seem abstract, but it helps us to think shrewdly about how changing skills can respond to new challen...

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Our latest paper engages @gdstone.bsky.social's theory of agricultural deskilling. We introduce the theory of ‘agrarian skilling’ to expand and complement Stone's theory of agricultural knowledge production. Open access at this link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @drflachsophone.bsky.social

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

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No kidding... the most famous chart showing the triumph of science in food production actually shows one of agriculture's biggest dumpster fires tinyurl.com/ae2wssj4

No more Bayer necessities! End of the road for Roundup? tinyurl.com/mwsb6bz8

Farmers’ Favorite Weedkiller Nears Its End, Bayer Warns

The German company cites mounting costs from lawsuits blaming Roundup for causing cancer.

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Mexico forced by trade tribunal to import #GMO corn because the objections are "not based on science." De veras? Two top Mexican scientists (including former director of national science agency) speaking on this tinyurl.com/3pntut95

Mexican scientists to speak on GM corn risks

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Aquabounty #GMO salmon faceplant in an Ohio town tinyurl.com/yes8tuvd

The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon

AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...

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Raj Patel@rajpatel.org · last yr.

I know a physical anthropologist who just had an NSF proposal on neanderthal thermoregulation flagged for some sort of wokeness. I wish I were joking.

Newspeak for Scientists! Marion Nestle shares news that words like "women", 'female', 'racism', 'systemic' and 'political' may now get your NSF grant canned. Luckily "unwhite" and "unman" are just a find-and-replace away. Brave new words.

Repeating a myth doesn’t make it true. Green Revolution didn't cause "staggering" food increases tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey. In India, which was supposedly on the verge of famine, it didn’t increase the food growth rate in India at all.

How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey says the Green Revolution spread to cattle & chicken farming. Green Rev started in '67 in India, >3 decades after poultry factory farms started in Delmarva, >1 decade after cattle feedlots spread to absorb excess corn.

Breakfast for Eight Billion

Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

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‪How many historical errors can one neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey implies the Dutch famine of 1944-45 was an example of persistent European famine. Not the Nazi food blockade? #hunger

Breakfast for Eight Billion

Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

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How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey says Haber & Bosch "completed their work in the run-up to" WW2 so their process wasn't used much until after the war. ??? It produced millions of tons of explosives in WW2; was even used by the Germans in WW1.

Breakfast for Eight Billion

Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

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Liza Grandia@lizagrandia.bsky.social · 2y ago

New book by Liza Grandia: Guatemalan peasants give Monsanto a rap on the snout.

I'm delighted to announce the "open access" release of my newest book --a David and Goliath story about how Mesoamerican food movements faced down Monsanto, one of the most powerful corporations on the planet. . . and won.

Jon Cooper@joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2y ago

OK, LMAO. Now for more on Campbell's Soup: did u know that they co-sponsored development of the first #GMO food crop, the FlavrSavr tomato, but then decided not to use it in their own soups, to avoid compromising their brand's image. tinyurl.com/bdf82eaf

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Campbell’s witty response to this homophobe makes me want to enjoy some of their delicious chicken noodle soup right now! 🍜 🏳️‍🌈

New article: New #digital "agricultural revolution" in #India. tinyurl.com/2ejtufa8 But as you can see, I'm getting to be the buzzkill guy on digital agriculture. (Here's why in case you're interested tinyurl.com/53fzw4ms. It's about #SurveillanceAgriculture)

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