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Amazing short video on food problems and solutions

Roots of Change, the San Francisco think tank and funder with the vision to remake California’s food system, has released a marvelous short...
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Down the Rabbit Hole of Industrial Agriculture

I have been writing lot about food lately becauseI hope to make itobvious how much "environmental health" is tied with the way we choose...
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Threats to the World's Food Supply Proliferate

The relentless assault on the food supplies of the world by industrial agriculture and its consequences continues unabated, and largely ignored....
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Fertilizer Pollution Spreading Across California

Nitrate pollution in drinking water has threatened the health of more than two million people in California over 15 years without significant...
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Genetically modified crops failing worldwide

The Green Revolution -- a misleading name applied by PR firms to the onset of globalized, chemical-intensive, industrial agriculture that is...
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The Food War: Report from the Front

When it was going well, the Food War -- conducted by the agricultural-industrial complex to stamp out nutritious food and replace it with cheap,...
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Is it time to re-tool the FDA?

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), now over 100 years old, has as a key part of its mission the responsibility for “assuring the safety,...
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Time to end the abuse of antibiotics in industrial animal production

According to the Union of Concerned Scientists perhaps as much as 70% of all antibiotics sold in the U.S. is given to cattle, swine, and poultry on...
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Failure to yield: Evaluating the performance of genetically engineered crops

For years the biotechnology industry has boasted that its genetically engineered (GE) crops—primarily corn and soybeans, will feed the world...
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