Food

by Evaggelos Vallianatos Dec. 6, 2019 The power of the chemical industry in the United States all but wiped out the US EPA. The politicized department...

By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos 07/23/2019 The massive multinational corporations that produce the world’s supply of drugs, vaccines and genetically modified organisms have been coming under increasing heavy...

By Maroosha Muzaffar Mavlon Pulodov’s tall quinoa stems sway in the wind. Unlike farmers in the Andean countries of South America — home to the...

6th November 2018 What if we abandoned photosynthesis as the means of producing food, and released most of the world’s surface from agriculture? By George Monbiot,...

by Colin Todhunter February 12, 2018 Richard John Roberts is a prominent biochemist and molecular biologist. On his recent visits to India, he has talked about...

As we race towards a population of nine billion, business as usual for farming is no longer a viable option. We must take a...

Two giants of the farming and chemical industries agreed to merge Wednesday in a $66 billion deal: the U.S.’s Monsanto and Germany’s Bayer, the original maker of aspirin. It’s the year’s biggest deal and will create the world’s largest supplier of seeds and farm chemicals, with $26 billion in combined annual revenue from agriculture. If the merger goes through, it