Agriculture & Food
We eat to live. Humans use approximately 11% of Earth’s land for the cultivation of crops for food, but also for clothing, medicine and biofuels. Globally, major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Viewpoint: Glyphosate may be hazardous, but it is not dangerous as used by farmers. Critics of the Supreme Court’s Roundup ruling garble hazard with risk
... In epidemiology, causation is usually a population-level inference. Researchers ask whether an exposure reliably changes disease risk across groups of ...
Viewpoint: Which is worse: Trace PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ on strawberries or the fear that scares people away from eating them?
A wellness blog called Mamavation had a lab test two containers of Driscoll’s from a single store on a single ...
Viewpoint: Appreciating a simpler past without swallowing the misleading ‘nature is healthier and safer’ myth
There is a woman who lives on my For You page. She has wild curly hair and a wardrobe of ...
No, Bill Gates did not secretly engineer ticks to promote veganism
"WEAPONIZED TICKS ARE HERE -- AND IT'S NO ACCIDENT! Genetically modified ticks are exploding across America, triggering Alpha-Gal Syndrome," claims a May ...
Glyphosate affirmed as safe: Supreme Court rejects lawsuit claiming Roundup herbicide causes cancer, upholding EPA determination
The Supreme Court on Thursday sided with Monsanto in a high-stakes dispute over cancer warnings on pesticide labels. In an ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. ignores oversight of vast HHS programs to focus on his pet obsessions—and gets much of the science wrong
Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, ...
Kennedy’s nutrition prescription for medical schools: Real problem, bad cure
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has turned a recognized challenge — medical students receive too little ...
Which is better for building healthy farm soil? Organic offers no special edge.
Soil health is driven by soil organic matter, which is driven by plant biomass inputs, which are driven by photosynthesis ...
Viewpoint: Raw milk and the myth of safety—ProPublica exposes the growing anti-homogenization movement
This story was originally published by ProPublica. McAfee isn’t any ordinary farmer. He is a raw-milk zealot who has escaped ...
Viewpoint: ‘Industrial food’ primer—Challenging the dangerous delusions of the alternative food movement
Eat real food. It’s the closest thing American alternative food politics has to a creed, and for the better part ...
Viewpoint: Behind the effort to re-purpose the tobacco attack strategy to fight ultra-processed foods
Tobacco companies spent decades honing marketing strategies, flavor engineering and processing technologies that helped addict consumers to cigarettes. Then, in ...
Turmeric supplements: More risks than benefits
Turmeric supplements have become a booming “natural” health product, promoted for everything from inflammation and joint pain to general disease ...
‘Toxin’ detox: A gastroenterologist weighs in on $71 billion health trend
In 2025, the detoxification industry worldwide was valued at over $71 billion, and some estimates have that number approaching $120 ...
Debunking vs. Restoring Trust: New and better strategies to fight deliberate disinformation
US and global health authorities have recommended seed oils for decades for their heart-healthy essential fats. But in 2024, the ...
Viewpoint: Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario. Is that proof that climate change is a hoax, as Trump claims?
When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate ...
Republican lawmakers spread misinformation claiming solar farms permanently destroy potato farms
In January, Michigan Republican state Rep. Cam Cavitt posted a 51-second clip to Facebook labeled “Solar Farm SECRET.” In the ...
Viewpoint: Why you should ignore organic food advocates’ advice to avoid ‘pesticide soaked’ conventional fruits and vegetables
The most commonly stated reason people buy organic food is avoidance of pesticide residues. Indeed, organic producers cannot use conventional ...
Some plants can poison you. So how did humans figure out what is safe to eat?
Have you ever eaten a green potato, or a bunch of rhubarb leaves? Hopefully not, because these two plant parts ...
Challenging anti-GMO disinformation: Why genetically-tweaked crops offer bushels of benefits
GMOs are one of the most controversial topics within our global food system. There are many misconceptions regarding what a GMO ...
Viewpoint: Greenpeace and poison: How environmental advocacy groups rely on compliant (and often ignorant) journalists to spread disinformation and spark litigation
Here we go again. Greenpeace released a report recently entitled Our Poisoned Land claiming 102 individual pesticides have been used across seven ...
Viewpoint—GMOs and sustainability: Why buying organic foods is the least environmentally-sensitive food choice—without offering any health benefits
In pursuit of sustainability, shoppers are reaching for the organic apple or the GMO-free chips. But if we truly want ...
Viewpoint: When food myths go viral, farmers pay the price
The media capitalises on “emotional content” and, when “clicks” are profit, the more outrageous the title, the bigger the margin ...
Viewpoint: Swine farmers are under attack for allegedly mistreating their animals. Here are the facts.
... While retired Col. Tom Pool is entitled to his opinions as an animal rights activist, his April 16 article ...
Viewpoint: Scientists recently revised downward the likelihood of catastrophic global warming. Reassured? You shouldn’t be.
Even if global warming does not exceed two degrees, it could lead to more serious consequences than expected. This is ...
Viewpoint: There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee—including many substances that can cause cancer. Why isn’t it banned?
We live in a complex chemical landscape in which risks are notoriously difficult to evaluate. It can be pretty hairy ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s FDA is on a screaming downward path—and why it may never recover
Whether you liked [Marty] Makary or not ..., the purge or whatever this was is not somehow going to miraculously ...
31 states have passed a confusing collection of regulations for cell-based meat and plant and insect alternative proteins
Over the past several years, the regulation of alternative proteins has received a lot of attention at the state level ...
