Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

She mixes Indigenous traditional knowledge with modern science in a way that feels practical yet fun.” “The fact is that our current food system pours herbicides, pesticides, and fungicides on so much of our food.” Not to mention that industrial agriculture is hugely destructive to the environment.

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Forage Food Ecology Pesticide 141

Modern Farmer

JANUARY 10, 2024

Aidee Guzman, 30, grew up the daughter of immigrants in California’s Central Valley, among massive fields of monocrops that epitomize intense, industrial agriculture. And today, even when the soil stays on the ground, we’re actively destroying it through the use of pesticides, herbicides, synthetic fertilizers, and more.

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Food Industrial Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture 125

Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In modern times, there’s a long tradition of techno-optimists or cornucopians–science writer Charles C. For the time being, our cunning plan seems to be to wait until the last second and hope an airbag will deploy to cushion us from the final impact. Mann calls them “wizards”–telling us that technology will come to our rescue.

Food 143

Food Pasture Livestock Poultry 143

The Equation

MARCH 4, 2024

Farms that use extractive agriculture usually are outside the official community line, and therefore they pay no taxes to the communities they pollute. Those corporations spray pesticides that often drifts over people and sensitive environmental areas. Source: SEEN. Imagine air quality so bad that it makes your nose bleed!

Agriculture 119

Agriculture Agriculture Pesticide Ruralism 119

The Equation

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Woods brings decades of experience in the application of spatial data science to her work studying the environmental and health impacts of the US food and agriculture system. While development, forestry, and climate change all contribute to wetland loss, draining for agriculture has been the single biggest cause since the 1800s.

Pesticide 52

Pesticide Agriculture Industrial Agriculture Agriculture 52

The Equation

MAY 14, 2024

Their suggested marker bills included provisions that would broaden access to US farm loans for historically underserved borrowers, help farmers address the climate crisis, better protect food and farm workers, halt industrial agriculture mergers by strengthening relevant antitrust laws, and expand SNAP benefits and government nutrition programs.

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Food Farming Farming Agriculture 115

The Equation

APRIL 4, 2023

We can do this in part by strongly funding science, equity, and climate-focused federal research, as well as supporting government programs to protect land conservation and soil health. As the effects of climate change become clearer every year, it’s essential that we build a food and farm system that is resilient enough to withstand them.

Food 99

Food Farming Farming Agriculture 99

Sustainable Food Trust

AUGUST 9, 2023

Early warnings of the potentially damaging effects of industrial agriculture and food processing technologies upon planetary and human health provoked a vehement backlash.

Food 98

Food Seeding Farming Farming 98

Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 28, 2024

Much of this section is drawn from a public database of academic research that Mexico’s science agency has maintained since 2020. Among the 66 peer-reviewed articles cited by Mexico is a 2021 paper by Mexico’s Institute of Sciences that found Bt toxins trigger an immune response in humans “as potent as that elicited by cholera toxin.”

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Maize Science Crop Food 144

The Equation

MAY 9, 2024

Corporations across the food system increasingly have the power, by virtue of their size, market domination, political connections, and deep pockets, to set prices, meddle with science, evade regulation, and write the rules to benefit themselves. If anything in our lives is essential, it’s food and the means of producing it. The average U.S.

Farmland 142

Farmland Food Seeding Fertilizer 142

World Agri-Tech

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mark Brooks, FMC VENTURES Mark Brooks, Managing Director, FMC VENTURES: “My supervillain is ScorchedFarm, who exposes the vulnerabilities of modern agriculture in the face of climate change. He manipulates weather patterns to bring on drought and extreme temperatures, summons pests that are resistant to pesticides, and degrades the soil.

Technology 59

Technology Marketing Finance Production 59

Civil Eats

MARCH 12, 2025

You described our industrial food system as insane and absurd. Case in point: The fertilizers and pesticides used on farms have to pollute our rivers, oceans, and drinking water. Twenty-five years ago, I started in the public health nutrition program at Teachers College, with a BS degree in Nutritional Sciences from Cornell.

Food 131

Food Ecology Farming Farming 131

Modern Farmer

JULY 12, 2024

“Florida’s ban and soon Pennsylvania’s ban of cultured meat clearly demonstrates the prevailing ignorance of science among consumers at large and policy makers (often backed by deep-pocket science doubters),” wrote Kantha Shelke, founder of a food science firm called Corvus Blue, LLC and lecturer at Johns Hopkins University, in an email.

Cultivation 67

Cultivation Cattle Science Ranching 67

The Equation

DECEMBER 12, 2023

But those laws primarily focused on the industrial sector, leaving agriculture largely alone. According to the EPA, it applies about a half million tons of pesticides, 12 million tons of nitrogen, and 4 million tons of phosphorus fertilizer to crops in the continental United States every year. Big Ag is a major polluter.

Fertilizer 128

Fertilizer Pesticide Agriculture Agriculture 128

The Equation

MARCH 13, 2025

Instead, by catering to billionaires and corporate interests, decimating federal agencies, relentlessly denying and attacking science, and refusing to learn lessons from the last pandemic, they are threatening to make this and many other problems much, much worse. Kennedy, Jr. , to make good public health decisions.

Science 88

Science Poultry Food Industrial Agriculture 88

The Equation

JANUARY 3, 2024

But industrial agriculture—the second-largest source of damage to US wetlands—celebrated Sackett , because the decision opened millions of acres of wetlands to agricultural development and unmitigated pollution. Who wins when wetlands lose protections?

Industrial Agriculture 117

Industrial Agriculture Acre Agriculture Agriculture 117

National Young Farmers Coalition

JUNE 26, 2024

The bill within EQIP allows up to 90% cost-share for precision agriculture practices. The environmental impact of precision agriculture is not yet understood, but it can potentially increase energy use and the use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers. 7125, 7204, 7208, 7305, 7503). 7111, 7114, 7208).

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