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Rivka Fidel

Rivka Fidel

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From Near Record Farm Pollution Found in Mississippi River by EWG

The latest Mississippi River water quality measurements demonstrate that spending $46 billion since 1997 to encourage farmers to reduce farm pollution voluntarily simply has not worked.

From The complex nature of GMOs calls for a new conversation by Ensia

GMOs, in sum, point us to deeper issues that underlie the entire food system. A nonreductionist evaluation of GMOs can push us toward thinking about effects at multiple scales an…

From The complex nature of GMOs calls for a new conversation by Ensia

Finally, I would like to see GM research and development moved into the public sphere. Decoupling profit interests from R&D could open up a realm of possibilities: GMOs adapted for agroecological systems instead of monocultures, GMOs developed through participatory plant breeding, GMOs available to all under open-source seed licenses. As a concrete start, we can re-evaluate the 1980 Bayh-Dole Act, which allows universities to own and…

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Only ‘collective intelligence’ can help us stave off an uninhabitable planet

Nafeez Ahmed

We Are The Scientists Against A Fascist Government

The Establishment

Why I’m Not Voting for Jill Stein — No, this isn’t About Clinton or Trump

Mark Haim