Agriculture & Food
We eat to live. Humans use approximately 11% of Earth’s land for the cultivation of crops for food, but also for clothing, medicine and biofuels. Globally, major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Netflix plastic documentary is scare nonsense packaged as science
Netflix, which has made simplified propaganda many times before (See: Dopesick), sticks to a familiar formula in a thoroughly slanted ...
How China engineered its agricultural revolution
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Viewpoint — Dirty Dozen produce ranking flop: Environmental Working Group is at it again with its scientifically ignorant rankings
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Viewpoint: Cheddar cheese from unpasteurized milk? Cheese linked to e coli outbreak but Raw Farm and organic grocery stores reject recalls
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Ultra-processed food: The term UPF is less than 20 years old. Here’s its social justice origins
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Viewpoint: The ‘link to cancer’ myth—Activist and trial lawyers misrepresent the potential danger of glyphosate and other herbicides
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Vitamin D alert: Cod liver oil contains environmental toxins. Is it safe to eat?
Cod liver oil comes from fish liver and therefore contains environmental toxins. Is cod liver oil or capsules with fish ...
Key Republicans are abandoning Casey Means’ floundering surgeon general nomination
The nascent Make America Healthy Again movement got one of its biggest wins last spring: Casey Means was selected to be the ...
Stomach or digestion problems? Wellness “experts” on social media are promoting these quack cures
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Viewpoint — Glyphosate: Ecological villain or environmental scapegoat?
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Viewpoint: Climate change propaganda and disinformation are now the official position of the U.S. government
The Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists recently won a court case against the administration which forced it to ...
Viewpoint: How ‘fake news’ shapes our behavior?
In recent years, the spread of fake news—particularly in the health domain—has become a significant concern. Misinformation about medical treatments, vaccines, ...
Viewpoint: In defense of plastics (and a rebuttal of ideology-infused misinterpretations of risk science)
Close observers will note that journalists in the legacy press have a perplexing habit of engaging in outright activism for ...
Viewpoint: Social media influencers are promoting RFK, Jr.’s dangerous protein-heavy diet
The rise of social media influencers promoting the carnivore diet with its emphasis on eating as much beef, butter and ...
Viewpoint: Farmers face mounting challenges — Proposed U.S. farm bill doesn’t meet them
The House Agriculture Committee advanced a proposed farm bill ... —a set of legislative proposals that have traditionally balanced the social safety ...
GLP podcast: Does industry funding corrupt science? The ‘shill gambit,’ debunked
It's a charge many scientists face: they post a factual tweet refuting common misinfo about vaccines, pesticides or some other ...
With food prices rising, Democrats blame “corporate consolidation” over food aid cuts as a campaign message
At the Capitol Hill roundtable ..., hosted by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-New York), farmers, union leaders, lawyers, academics, ...
Challenging the fasting myth: No, it will not help you lose weight
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Viewpoint: Wheat has become a target of glyphosate critics. Should the herbicide be banned?
We have reached a point where the mere mention of glyphosate reflexively triggers public reactions of fear, regardless of whether ...
U.S. defunding International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), UN-affiliated group that issued cancer warnings for glyphosate, steak, and getting a haircut
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Viewpoint: Is the Republican-backed farm bill an agriculture industry giveaway?
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White House clamps down on RFK, Jr.’s vaccine rejectionism but he reportedly retains Trump’s support
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Viewpoint—Liberal delusion: No, RFK, Jr. would not have made a great Secretary of Agriculture
The standard non-MAGA take on Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is that it’s too bad he’s such a brain-wormed lunatic about ...
Viewpoint: International Association for Research on Cancer and U.S. tort industry extortion racket revs up after release of IARC’s misleading cancer hysteria claims
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Iowa Republicans partnering with quack ‘Raja of World Peace’ Maharishi Flying Yoga cult “scientist” to study pesticide residues
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EU’s imminent embrace of gene-edited crops threatens to leave New Zealand a science laggard
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