VIDEO: Dow's Orwellian New Herbicide Ad
Monsanto's Roundup Ready weed-killing technology, which has conquered corn, soy, and cotton country, stands at the brink of failure, choked by a spreading thicket of Roundup-resistant weeds. But...
View ArticleVIDEO: Syngenta Has an Orwellian Herbicide Ad, Too
It's all the rage these days for gigantic agrichemical companies to release creepy videos touting the benefits of dodgy products languishing under the regulatory microscope.Yesterday, I posted Dow...
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Tom's Kitchen: Halibut With Garlic and Bay Leaves
Tom's Kitchen has evolved into a kind of rough diary of my culinary life, reflecting what I'm up to and where I am. So when I'm cooking for the Maverick Farms crew in North Carolina, it typically...
View ArticleWhy Seafood Guides Alone Can't Save the Troubled Seas
Over on The Daily Beast, the marine biologist Callum Roberts has a good essay (excerpted from his new book) on a topic that doesn't get nearly enough attention: the declining state of the...
View Article90 Percent of Corn Seeds Are Coated With Bayer's Bee-Decimating Pesticide
I'm doing something very odd this week: speaking at the annual conference of Croplife America, the main trade group for the US agrichemical industry. Croplife members include Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and...
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Obama's Plan to Stick It to Poultry Workers
As I reported a while back, the USDA is pushing a new regime for industrial-scale poultry slaughterhouses: The agency wants to fire its own inspectors and let the poultry companies oversee their own...
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What Do the World's Most Powerful Pesticide Honchos Eat for Dinner?
I've made a career of sorts writing about the "big six" agrichemical companies—Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, DuPont, Syngenta, and BASF—that produce the great bulk of the world's pesticides and, increasingly,...
View ArticleOn Aid, Obama Sells Out Poor Countries to Big Ag
"More than one in four Africans—close to 218 million people—is undernourished," the UN Development Program declared in a recent report. With food prices gyrating upward in recent years, the situation...
View ArticleCan BPA Make You Fat?
The food industry likes to portray obesity as a matter of personal responsibility: People who eat too much gain weight, and it's their own fault.That view willfully neglects the role that industry...
View ArticleHow California Could Force the Rest of the US to Label GMO Foods
In November, California voters will decide on a ballot initiative that would require labeling of all foods containing ingredients from genetically modified crops. The initiative made it to the ballot...
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