“It’s outrageous,” said Tracey Woodruff, a researcher at the University of California San Francisco who studies environmental health, particularly the effects of chemical exposures on pregnant mothers and their babies. “If they overturn this, it would leave the public responsible for cleaning up, not the companies that knowingly polluted the land.”
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Zen Honeycutt, the founder of Moms Across America, an advocacy group closely linked to the MAHA movement, called the draft “profoundly disappointing and dangerous.”
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Aldi plans to open 200 stores across the U.S., more than any other grocer, and expects to have around 2,600 locations by the end of the year.
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Though large family farms and corporate farms amounted to less than 8% of all farms in the United States, they received about 47% of subsidy payments and 67% of crop insurance payments in 2024. Under the new law, payments to the largest and wealthiest will only increase.
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The data, which disappeared from Agriculture Department sites in recent weeks, was useful to farmers for business planning, the lawsuit said.
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Dr. Nancy Beck is credited with leading a wide-ranging pushback against chemical regulations during the first Trump administration, and she rewrote rules that made it harder to track the health consequences of a “forever chemical” linked to cancer.
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A company controlled by Goldman Sachs is helping to lead a lobbying effort by makers of fertilizer linked to “forever chemicals.”
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There is very convincing evidence that organic offers superior nutrition, but The New York Times failed to fully acknowledge this.
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A very hopeful story about an organization that is helping farmers find an alternative to factory farming.
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The herbicide, used widely on crops including broccoli and onions, can cause low birth weight and impaired brain development, regulators said.
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An Australian start-up is hoping fungi can pull carbon dioxide from the air and stash it underground.
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The Biden administration aims to better support small farmers while still aiding big operations and rewarding climate-friendly practices. It’s a tall order.
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Farm protests are changing not only Europe’s food system but also its politics.
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Food companies are talking about smaller price increases this year, good news for grocery shoppers and restaurant diners.
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Juries recently awarded plaintiffs more than $2 billion in damages tied to Roundup, the weedkiller that has been linked to cancer.
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Asked to cut herds, move or even shut down to help meet E.U. environmental goals, agricultural workers say too much is demanded of them. Their anger is reshaping the political landscape.
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With volumes down but prices up, major food companies are still seeing growing profits.
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Mexico is trying to save the planet and human health by banning GMO corn and the super-toxic glyphosate, and the U.S. won’t let them.
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The organic industry needs to start viewing Sam Altman — the person behind ChatGPT and the backer of many GMO 2.0 companies — in the same light as Bill Gates, due to his very strong influence in Silicon Valley and his financial endorsement of genetic engineering technologies.
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A great op-ed in the NYT about how Farmland LP and others groups are doing good and making money.
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Small farmers are now going up against deep-pocketed investors, including private equity firms and real estate developers.
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Some companies and restaurants have continued to raise prices on consumers even after their own inflation-related costs have been covered.
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Some of the largest companies in the U.S. have pledged to adopt climate-friendly agricultural techniques. But some farmers say they haven’t provided enough incentive.
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