tags: Big Ag
2016
April
- 2016 Apr 12
- Nitrogen Pollution
These days, carbon pollution is generally the headliner, but nitrogen pollution definitely has major environmental effects.
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- Ortho Nixes Neonics
Despite the controversy over whether or not neonicotinoid pesticides harm bees or not, Ortho has taken the step to phase out and eventually discontinue neonics in their home and garden products.
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May
- 2016 May 19
- Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic resistance isn't so much about humans vs. bacteria as it is about humans vs. laissez-faire capitalism, specifically Big Ag, but also the health insurance/for-profit health care industrial complex.
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- The Reason People in This Country are Starving
Proponents and GMOs and pesticides like to point out that increased production is the only way to prevent massive starvation. While I am not anti-GMO or anti-pesticide, this is demonstrably false.
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June
- 2016 Jun 10
- FDA and Antibiotics in Food-Producing Animals
Realistically, misuse and overuse of antibiotics in food-producing animals is just as much of a contributor to antibiotic resistance as misues and overuse of antibiotics in humans.
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