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

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/...

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

Giant leap forward in American chestnut restoration www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Incredible, mind-blowing, life-changing interview. I can't even. exchange.prx.org/pieces/59592...

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...

Our latest paper engages @gdstone.bsky.social's theory of agricultural deskilling. We introduce the theory of ‘agrarian skilling’ 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

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

No more Bayer necessities! End of the road for Roundup? tinyurl.com/mwsb6bz8

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

Aquabounty #GMO salmon faceplant in an Ohio town tinyurl.com/yes8tuvd

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.

Repeating a myth doesn’t 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 didn’t increase the food growth rate in India at all.

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.

‪How 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

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.

New book by Liza Grandia: Guatemalan peasants give Monsanto a rap on the snout.

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

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)

New blog post: GOOD LUCK WITH THE CORN, RFK YOU A-HOLE fieldquestions.com/2024/12/10/g...

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