Internal documents describe how to profit from farmer losses and desire to oppose some independent testing
Newly disclosed court documents included Monsanto’s internal emails and email traffic between the company and federal regulators. The records suggested that Monsanto had ghostwritten research that was later attributed to scientists.
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“Open Source” Seeds Loosen Big Ag’s Grip on Farmers – World Sensorium / Conservancy
A handful of companies own the patents on virtually every seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing biodiversity back to farming.
Monsanto Was Its Own Ghostwriter for Some Safety Reviews
Academic papers vindicating Roundup were written with the help of its employees.
What we know on Taylor Farms donations to pro-Trump groups
After Taylor Farms de Mexico’s lettuce was identified as a potential source for a multi-state cyclospora outbreak, the company’s political dealings and contributions came under scrutiny. Social media users looked into donations the company and its leadership made and drew assumptions about how those influenced the Trump administration’s outbreak response. Here are some of the […]
The Roots of Your Profits - Dr Elaine Ingham, Soil Microbiologist, Founder of Soil Foodweb Inc
Taylor Farms Expands Iceberg Lettuce Recall to 27 States Amid Cyclospora Outbreak
The F.D.A. said that a new sample from the company’s Mexico facility had tested positive for cyclospora and that the agency was trying to trace affected products.
‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution
Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agriculture
Iowa Crops Look Like Food — But No One’s Eating
Inside a system that traps farmers, and screws up the planet
As Parasite Spawned Chaos, Taylor Farms Slow-Walked Its Response
The US Food and Drug Administration had apologized, Taylor Farms said in a post on X. An agency lab test linking its produce to the country’s worst cyclosporiasis outbreak in decades was a false positive. Not only that, but the government still hadn’t produced a laboratory result connecting the company’s lettuce to the outbreak.
FDA says Taylor Farms cyclospora finding was a false positive
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Sunday that laboratory experts re-checked lettuce sample results from Taylor Farms in an investigation into an outbreak of the cyclospora parasite and concluded the finding should be considered a false positive.
The brutal trade-off that will decide the future of food
A growing number of thinkers say factory farming can help save the planet. Are they right?
FDA retracts test result but still links Taylor Farms lettuce to cyclosporiasis
The Food and Drug Administration said Sunday that a laboratory finding showing cyclospora contamination in a sample of shredded iceberg lettuce supplied...
Less red tape, more pesticides? Bee careful what you ‘simplify’
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Farmers Are Having to Hack Their Own Tractors Just to Make Repairs
Owners are turning to hacked software from Eastern Europe as farm equipment companies won't license it to them directly.
NEW: Regulators have linked Mark McAfee’s raw dairy farm to more than a dozen recalls and outbreaks that left hundreds of people ill. “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital,” McAfee said. “But here’s the thing: I’m a pioneer.”
He Profits Off Raw Milk That's Making People Sick. The Government Isn't Stopping Him.
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