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Here’s new news about pesticides and bees

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bees are struggling, and ...
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It’s practically impossible to define “GMOs”

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Debates rage over what ...

The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What if our next-generation, futuristic ...

As demand for beef grows, China faces choice between imported or cloned cows

Suzanne Jacobs | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Remember when eating sustainably meant ...
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Here’s how to do GMO labeling so everyone wins

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What would it look ...
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How plants can help us address climate change

Suzanne Jacobs | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a hole in the ...
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What does “organic” actually mean?

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does organic actually ...

Could next industrial evolution be fueled by microbes?

Suzanne Jacobs | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Microbes are everywhere. They’re ...
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Can technology and sustainability go hand in hand?

Suzanne Jacobs | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  The 21st century will ...
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Senate panel warms to GMOs

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On October 21st, for ...
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Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones?

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If we choose to ...

What TPP means for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The TPP opened North ...
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Fear of rogue organism, global catastrophe drives anti-GMO hysteria

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are GMOs just too ...
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Are scientists who collaborate with industry tainted?

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When does conflict of ...
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Legos and Mark Ruffalo explain promises and perils of synthetic biology

Suzanne Jacobs | Grist | 
Synthetic biology is proving to be one of the most promising areas of science. So far, it's given us a source of ...
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Can “lab-grown” meat end animal cruelty and promote sustainability?

Suzanne Jacobs | Grist | 
If we know too much about that juicy steak we might not want to eat it anymore. A lot of ...

How does synthetic biology, including genetic engineering, work?

Suzanne Jacobs | Grist | 
Nature has always been the world's best engineer. That’s because there’s always been a divide between technology — the inanimate stuff ...

To make meat greener, make it more efficiently

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
Meat consumption is increasing around the world as countries become wealthier. That leaves us with the practical meat question — that is, the ...

Organic farming contributes to more greenhouse gas emissions, not less

Grist | 
Here’s some hard, responsibly farmed news to swallow: Big Organic isn’t really doing much to reduce carbon emissions. In fact, commercialized ...

Slate: Anti-GMO activists say the darnedest things

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
When activist organizations issue over-the-top press releases or make non-scientific claims, I just shake my head, but unless I’m writing at ...
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Why are bees hurting? A lineup of suspects

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
In my last piece I made the case that the rumors of honeybee extinction have been greatly exaggerated, but honeybees ...
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Why the bee crisis isn’t as bad as you think (but still matters)

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
There’s a note of evangelical glee in some of the predictions of bee extinction. Vanishing bees are a sign of the end ...

Removing antibiotics from food makes a difference, removing GMOs doesn’t

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
A lot of food companies are jumping on the transparency bandwagon. Panera, Chipotle, and Pepsi are labeling foods and removing ...

Have preconceived opinions about big farms? Meet Iowa farmers

Liz Core | Grist | 
Iowa commodity growers are often demonized for what and how they grow, and monocultures and ethanol aren’t exactly healthy for the ...

So Roundup “probably” causes cancer. This means what, exactly?

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
The World Health Organization just classified glyphosate — the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup — as a probable carcinogen. Don’t forget ...

Are shrooms the new pesticide?

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
Scientists in Ireland have found that growing fungus inside barley helps the plants ward off disease. Brian Murphy, a botanist at Trinity ...

Russian outfit plans to spend $25 million to secretly study GMOs

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
Back in November, a group that has campaigned against GMOs in Russia announced that it was going to do a ...
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So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how

Nathanael Johnson | Grist | 
Over the past six months I’ve been trying to figure out how we can feed ourselves sustainably and equitably without ...
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