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Agriculture

If you are looking to keep your foods fresher longer – and who isn’t? – you need look no further than your freezer. Freezing is…
Increasingly frequent extreme weather events could threaten butterfly populations in the UK and could be the cause of recently reported butterfly population crashes, according to…
From Kartik Dhara’s home, the trucks at the top of the garbage mountain look like the toys he sees city children playing with on his…
We are today in the midst of a battleground for two very different approaches to agriculture. One is the agro-ecological approach based on the use…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released the results of its latest survey of organic farmers, and there’s good news. Organic farming is up nationally,…
There is a medicinal spice so timelessly interwoven with the origins of human culture and metabolism, so thoroughly supported by modern scientific inquiry, as to…
GMOs and the Mentality of Propaganda Control Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null
Progressive Radio Network, October 10, 2016     The evidence for genetically modified organism (GMOs) safety for human consumption and its environmental risks remains one…
Feeding the world's burgeoning population is a major challenge for agricultural scientists and agribusinesses, who are busy developing higher-yielding crop varieties. Yet University of Illinois…
In July 2016 the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed a law to ban the cultivation and breeding of genetically modified plants and animals (GMO),…
This lengthy investigation into the history of Bayer's unethical practices was prompted by the proposed expansion of its plant in Berkeley in the 90s. I'm…
An in-depth investigation reveals that multibillion-dollar Big Ag corporations—including DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto—as well as small-scale farmers routinely use labor recruiters who crowd migrant workers…