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  • Genetically Engineered Wheat: Risks & Concerns

    A new variety of genetically engineered (GMO) wheat called HB4 has been approved by the U.S. government, raising serious concerns for the health of the American public, farmers’ livelihoods, and the…

  • Rethinking No-Till

    A new report from Friends of the Earth refutes the widely-held assumption that conventional no-till agriculture is “regenerative.” 

  • 2024 Retailer Scorecard

    Without pollinators, grocery shelves would run short of a wide assortment of fruits and vegetables, nuts, and beans.

  • New Roundup, New Risks

    Friends of the Earth’s analysis finds that, on the fiftieth anniversary of its commercialization, Roundup sold to consumers is more toxic than ever before.

  • 2023 Bee-Friendly Supermarket Scorecard

    To spur a race to the top, FOE created a retailer scorecard to benchmark 25 of the largest grocery stores on pesticides & pollinator health.

  • Genetically Engineered Soil Microbes: Risks and Concerns

    The release of live genetically engineered microbes in agriculture represents an unprecedented open-air genetic experiment.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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…

  • Organic for All: Results of the Organic Diet Biomonitoring Study

    In this peer-reviewed study, we compared pesticide levels in the bodies of four American families for six days on a non-organic diet and six days on a completely organic diet. We found that an organic…