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Mother Jones joins science-literate chorus criticizing the American Academy of Pediatrics’ bungled critique of GMOs and glyphosate

Kiera Butler | Mother Jones | 
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines for doctors fielding parents’ questions about the risks of foods containing genetically modified ...
Viewpoint: The messy details of how lab-grown meat is made

Viewpoint: The messy details of how lab-grown meat is made

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
Lab meat—flesh grown in massive tanks instead of in the bodies of sentient animals—offers the promise of having our steak ...
Evangelical faith app goes rogue: How Subsplash went from spreading the word of Jesus to disseminating junk science and COVID conspiracy theories

Evangelical faith app goes rogue: How Subsplash went from spreading the word of Jesus to disseminating junk science and COVID conspiracy theories

Kiera Butler | Mother Jones | 
Tim and Kristy Turner believe they were called to spread the word of Jesus through apps. In 2005, the pair ...
‘​​So far, the clean meat industry has proven more adept at churning out optimistic timelines than it has at offering consumers an alternative to meat from animals’

‘​​So far, the clean meat industry has proven more adept at churning out optimistic timelines than it has at offering consumers an alternative to meat from animals’

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
So far, the [clean meat] industry has proven for more adept at churning out optimistic timelines than it has at ...
President Biden’s antitrust initiative could shake up the agriculture industry. Here’s how

President Biden’s antitrust initiative could shake up the agriculture industry. Here’s how

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
President Joe Biden released a sweeping executive order on “Promoting Competition in the American Economy,” aimed at taking on massive ...
Viewpoint: ‘Lefty food and farm' group's implacable opposition to genetic engineering imperils life-saving virus research, writes Mother Jones

Viewpoint: ‘Lefty food and farm’ group’s implacable opposition to genetic engineering imperils life-saving virus research, writes Mother Jones

Kiera Butler | Mother Jones | 
[Recently, the Center for Food Safety] sued the National Institutes of Health in an attempt to force the agency to ...
‘Meat: It's still what's for dinner.’ Can popular plant-based burgers really displace beef?

‘Meat: It’s still what’s for dinner.’ Can popular plant-based burgers really displace beef?

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
Walmart now peddles house-brand vegan “chick’n patties,” and KFC is trialing not-chicken nuggets developed by Beyond Meat.  But here’s a ...
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Certified organic? ‘Lax’ USDA regulations encourage fraud in profitable organic food sector

Amelia Pang | Mother Jones | 
An organic chicken can cost more than twice a conventional one. For some shoppers, that upcharge is worth it—the circular ...
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Viewpoint: Do neonicotinoid insecticides really boost crop yields? New study raises doubts

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
Ever year, farmers in the United States devote at least 80 million acres, a combined landmass three-quarters the size of ...
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Viewpoint: Dicamba pesticide mess already haunting Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
It’s happening again. In states from Mississippi to Indiana, some US soybean farmers are seeing a troubling sight: Previously healthy plants ...
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Viewpoint: Why does US still use neonicotinoid insecticides when they’re banned in Europe?

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
In late April, the European Union banned a blockbuster trio of neonicotinoid insecticides, marketed by chemical giants Syngenta and Bayer. The decision, motivated by mounting ...
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Proposed California ballot initiative ignores scientific consensus on GMOs, vaccine safety

Kiera Butler | Mother Jones | 
A proposed ballot initiative takes Golden State wackiness to the next level. ... This fall, Californians may have the opportunity ...
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Viewpoint: How Monsanto could end up profiting from dicamba herbicide drift fiasco

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
By mid-October, state departments of agriculture nationwide had received 2,708 complaints from soybean farmers who claimed their fields had been damaged by ...
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GM Arctic Apple promises to ‘dramatically reduce’ consumer food waste

Amy Thomson | Mother Jones | 
I’m an apple loyalist—I pack one as an after-lunch snack nearly every day of the week. So I jumped at ...
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Senator Elizabeth Warren sounds off on Monsanto-Bayer merger

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
Back in September 2016, US agribusiness titan Monsanto and German chemical conglomerate Bayer agreed to a $66 billion merger, making way ...
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Will herbicide drift damage push non-GMO farmers to buy dicamba-resistant seeds?

Nathalie Baptiste | Mother Jones | 
About 4 percent of all soybean crops planted in the United States have been damaged by a weed killer this ...
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Viewpoint: Do neonic traces found in world honey pose problems to bees or humans?

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
The last taste of honey you enjoyed likely came from bees exposed to neonicotinoids, the world’s most widely used class ...
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Scientists criticize IARC for withholding data showing glyphosate herbicide does not cause cancer

Kiera Butler | Mother Jones | 
According to a new Reuters investigation, Aaron Blair, the scientist who led IARC's [the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a ...
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Organic industry fears Republicans are targeting National Organic Program

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
Back in December [2016], the Freedom Caucus [a group of US House Republicans] released a "recommended list of regulations to ...
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Agriculture secretary front-runner Ted McKinney seen likely to promote crop biotechnology

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
Ted McKinney, [former] director of global corporate affairs for Elanco Animal Health, a division of pharma giant Eli Lilly; [former] ...
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Sustainably produced ‘cow’s milk’ made using genetically engineered yeast coming to your breakfast table

Marta Zaraska | Mother Jones | 
...[T]he next trend for [milk] isn't a plant-based alternative: It's cow's milk—with a twist. Though nearly identical to the stuff you ...
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Incoming Trump Administration faces key food policy challenges

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
Here are some stories [to track] in the coming year: Mind-bending agribusiness deals. For more than a decade, the global ...
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Mother Jones: New York Times report on GMOs used misleading statistics

Kevin Drum | Mother Jones | 
[Editor's note: A recent article in the New York Times claims that GMO crops have not lived up to their ...
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Mark Bittman: Obama ‘did virtually nothing in eight years’ on food policy

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
...[L]ike nearly every election before it, the current one has been nearly 100 percent free of any debate around the ...
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WikiLeaks shows how Big Organic’s Gary Hirshberg ‘bought’ Clinton’s support for GMO labeling

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
The latest WikiLeaks dump of Democratic Party emails shows that one prominent Big Organic player gets his emails answered by ...
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No need to fear GM mosquitoes, Mother Jones attests

Erica Langston | Mother Jones | 
Humans have made plenty of such blunders trying to control pests. Hawaii's mongoose infestation, Australia's poisonous cane toads, and Canada's thistle-eating ...
How Monsanto's 'big bet' on dicamba tolerant GMOs may have backfired

How Monsanto’s ‘big bet’ on dicamba tolerant GMOs may have backfired

Tom Philpott | Mother Jones | 
. . . . Back in April, [Monsanto] bet big on dicamba, announcing a $975 million expansion of its production facility. . . The chemical ...
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Baby making moves from bedroom to the laboratory

Natalie Schreyer | Mother Jones | 
The future of baby-making is not in a bed, or in the back seat of a car. It's in a ...
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