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Genetically Engineered Animals: From Lab to Factory Farm
This report, provides a scientific overview of the concerns with genetically engineered food animal experiments that are underway, and reveals the risks to human health, the environment and animal wel…
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Pesticides and Soil Health
This brief summarizes the science on a third critical principle of regenerative agriculture that receives comparatively little attention: minimizing use of pesticides.
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Why talk of regenerative agriculture should include pesticide reduction
Including pesticide reduction as a vital part of the regenerative agriculture conversation ensures that Monsanto and its ilk do not define the path forward.
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Over 80 groups urge Gov. Cuomo to sign Senate bill S5343 and ban brain-damaging pesticide chlorpyrifos
Today, over 80 citizen, agricultural, disability, environmental, health, and labor advocacy groups sent a public letter to Gov. Cuomo urging him to protect the health of children and farmworkers by…
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Toxic Acres
Since neonicotinoid insecticides were rst intro- duced in the 1990s, U.S. agriculture has become 48 times more toxic to insect life, according to a new study in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One.
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U.S. agriculture 48 times more toxic than 25 years ago
A new peer-reviewed study shows an explosion in the toxicity of U.S. agriculture for insects over the past 25 years since neonicotinoid pesticides were introduced. The study found that U.S. agricultur…
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Trump EPA delays ban on pesticide chlorpyrifos
The EPA’s refusal to ban chlorpyrifos ignores decades of science showing that this pesticide has irrevocable effects on human health and the environment.
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100,000+ People Demand a Green New Deal that Transforms Our Food System to Combat the Climate Crisis
Our current system of agriculture is one of the major contributors to climate change, but it’s also where we should look for transformative and just solutions.
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Regenerative Agriculture Campaign: Position Paper
We need a massive expansion of diversified, organic and ecologically regenerative farming systems. These are based on practices that draw carbon out of the atmosphere and produce abundant, nutritious…
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California Senate Education Committee Approves Nation’s First Climate-Friendly Plant-Based School Lunch Program
For too long, our tax dollars have subsidized unhealthy, highly processed factory-farmed meat in school lunch. It’s encouraging to see support for healthier, climate-friendly plant-based alternative…