By combining traditional plant breeding with ever-faster genetic sequencing tools, researchers are making fruits and vegetables more flavorful, colorful, shapely and nutritious BY FERRIS JABR Armed…
Posts tagged as “food production”
A new study published in Environmental Health builds on existing research assessing the relationship between long-term exposure to organophosphorus pesticides — widely used in food…
by Jacob M. Thompson These toxic chemicals have no place in our food. Manufacturers in Europe are producing the same food products without these harmful chemicals,…
By The New Lede The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has “a legal duty to protect infants and children against the toxic effects of pesticides,” said Dr.…
By CD Media Staff Using strategies to position it as a healthy alternative for natural meat, the industry’s fake meat is just another name for…
by Petr Svab Canada and Ireland are rolling out policies to force their farmers to cut carbon emissions to a point that the farmers say would affect food production. Despite…
By Colin Todhunter Do you remember the iconic Union Carbide image from the 1950s or early 1960s? The one with the giant hand coming from the…
By Augusto Zimmermann Brazil is the fourth-largest producer of food in the world. The country is entirely self-sufficient in basic foodstuffs, and it ranks as the…
By Nicholas Dolinger On Thursday, April 21, a small plane crashed at a General Mills food processing complex in Covington, Georgia. The plane collided into…
By Faye Higbee The Chinese Communists have their tendrils in nearly every American industry, from food production to farming, transportation, education, medicines, media, movies, etc. U.S…
By Strange Sounds Wheat prices are surging from the U.S. to Russia, hitting a record in Europe and raising bread costs all over the world.…
By Ethan Huff As the clown circus of American politics continues to dominate the headlines, hundreds of thousands of Midwesterners are without power, and at…