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Paul Ehrlich has shuffled off the mortal coil. I know he meant well but he spread a profoundly ignorant and politics-blind understanding of
#overpopulation
and food. If you read this new piece in The Conversation be sure to read the 1st recommended piece at the bottom
tinyurl.com/mttyawt7
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Syngenta gets a big headline for pulling the plug on paraquat, but so what? Others make and sell it in the US (although it is banned elsewhere)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Syngenta says it will stop making pesticide linked to Parkinsonâs disease
Company will halt production of controversial paraquat weed killer by end of June as it faces thousands of lawsuits
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/03/syngesta-pesticide-parkinsons
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fieldquestions.com/2026/02/20/i...
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In Defense of Roundup©
This week a presidential executive order declared the herbicide glyphosate âcrucial to the national security and defenseâ because it allows âfarmers and ranchers to maintain high yields and low proâŠ
https://fieldquestions.com/2026/02/20/in-defense-of-roundup/
about 2 months ago
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Today: Trump's order makes glyphosate a strategic national resource and shields producers from lawsuits
tinyurl.com/yfccenm6
With most major US crops are now worth less than what it costs to produce them, rice farmers want to be paid them to destroy what they've harvested.
tinyurl.com/5n928xu5
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Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, Every child deserves a safe and nurturing hom...
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/promoting-the-national-defense-by-ensuring-an-adequate-supply-of-elemental-phosphorus-and-glyphosate-based-herbicides/
about 2 months ago
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Giant leap forward in American chestnut restoration
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Genomic approaches to accelerate American chestnut restoration
More than a century after two introduced pathogens killed billions of American chestnut trees, introgression of resistance alleles from Chinese chestnuts has contributed to the recovery of self-sustai...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adw3225
about 2 months ago
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fieldquestions.com/2026/01/20/b...
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Black Swans, Processed Food, and Eugenics in the Blue Ridge
To hikers in Shenandoah National Park, Corbin Hollow is a procession of forested hillsides, copperheads, and collapsed chimneys. But the hollow is filled with ghosts. In collaboration with documentâŠ
https://fieldquestions.com/2026/01/20/black-swans-processed-food-and-eugenics/
2 months ago
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Incredible, mind-blowing, life-changing interview. I can't even.
exchange.prx.org/pieces/59592...
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Glenn Davis Stone, PhD, author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, discusses the legend and unintended consequences of the Green Revolution.
Did you know that the âGreen Revolutionâ is a cultural narrative that is rarely questioned? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Glenn Dav...
https://exchange.prx.org/pieces/595920?m=false
5 months ago
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The agriculture industry loves to depict indigenous farmers as slack jawed cretins. But there is a whole world of interesting work on SKILL. Fresh off the press blog
www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/spe...
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Special issue: where do skills reside in agriculture? - Institute of Development Studies
Where do skills reside? Do they dwell in people, in practices, in technologies? The question might seem abstract, but it helps us to think shrewdly about how changing skills can respond to new challen...
https://www.ids.ac.uk/opinions/special-issue-where-do-skills-reside-in-agriculture/
9 months ago
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reposted by
Glenn Davis stone
Marcus Taylor
12 months ago
Our latest paper engages
@gdstone.bsky.social
's theory of agricultural deskilling. We introduce the theory of âagrarian skillingâ to expand and complement Stone's theory of agricultural knowledge production. Open access at this link:
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
@drflachsophone.bsky.social
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00307270251335671
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No kidding... the most famous chart showing the triumph of science in food production actually shows one of agriculture's biggest dumpster fires
tinyurl.com/ae2wssj4
10 months ago
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No more Bayer necessities! End of the road for Roundup?
tinyurl.com/mwsb6bz8
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Farmersâ Favorite Weedkiller Nears Its End, Bayer Warns
The German company cites mounting costs from lawsuits blaming Roundup for causing cancer.
https://tinyurl.com/mwsb6bz8
12 months ago
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Mexico forced by trade tribunal to import
#GMO
corn because the objections are "not based on science." De veras? Two top Mexican scientists (including former director of national science agency) speaking on this
tinyurl.com/3pntut95
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Mexican scientists to speak on GM corn risks
https://tinyurl.com/3pntut95
about 1 year ago
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Aquabounty
#GMO
salmon faceplant in an Ohio town
tinyurl.com/yes8tuvd
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The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish â and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...
https://tinyurl.com/yes8tuvd
about 1 year ago
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I know a physical anthropologist who just had an NSF proposal on neanderthal thermoregulation flagged for some sort of wokeness. I wish I were joking.
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about 1 year ago
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Repeating a myth doesnât make it true. Green Revolution didn't cause "staggering" food increases
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
. In India, which was supposedly on the verge of famine, it didnât increase the food growth rate in India at all.
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How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have?
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
says the Green Revolution spread to cattle & chicken farming. Green Rev started in '67 in India, >3 decades after poultry factory farms started in Delmarva, >1 decade after cattle feedlots spread to absorb excess corn.
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Breakfast for Eight Billion
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
https://tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
about 1 year ago
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âȘHow many historical errors can one neo-Malthusian screed have?
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
implies the Dutch famine of 1944-45 was an example of persistent European famine. Not the Nazi food blockade?
#hunger
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Breakfast for Eight Billion
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
https://tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
about 1 year ago
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How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have?
tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
says Haber & Bosch "completed their work in the run-up to" WW2 so their process wasn't used much until after the war. ??? It produced millions of tons of explosives in WW2; was even used by the Germans in WW1.
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Breakfast for Eight Billion
Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history
https://tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey
about 1 year ago
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New book by Liza Grandia: Guatemalan peasants give Monsanto a rap on the snout.
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over 1 year ago
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OK, LMAO. Now for more on Campbell's Soup: did u know that they co-sponsored development of the first
#GMO
food crop, the FlavrSavr tomato, but then decided not to use it in their own soups, to avoid compromising their brand's image.
tinyurl.com/bdf82eaf
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over 1 year ago
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New article: New
#digital
"agricultural revolution" in
#India
.
tinyurl.com/2ejtufa8
But as you can see, I'm getting to be the buzzkill guy on digital agriculture. (Here's why in case you're interested
tinyurl.com/53fzw4ms
. It's about
#SurveillanceAgriculture
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https://tinyurl.com/2ejtufa8Pretty
over 1 year ago
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New blog post: GOOD LUCK WITH THE CORN, RFK YOU A-HOLE
fieldquestions.com/2024/12/10/g...
over 1 year ago
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New documentary: Out of Plain Sight featuring the awesome Rosanna Xia (who found out abt the 550k barrels of DDT off California) and the incredible Barbara Cohn (who found out abt DDT's long-term health effects). Gives new meaning to "forever chemicals."
tinyurl.com/3kwh49am
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PHI's Dr. Cohn Featured in âOut of Plain Sightâ Documentary on DDT and Health - Public Health Institute
Dr. Barbara Cohn, Director and Senior Research Scientist at PHI's Child Health and Development Studies is featured in Out of Plain Sight, a new documentaryâŠ
https://tinyurl.com/3kwh49am
over 1 year ago
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