FOOD | HEALTH | DEMOCRACY
FOOD | HEALTH | DEMOCRACY
NATURE Scientific Reports | Robin Mesnage, Jérôme Douzelet, Gilles-Eric Seralini | February 10, 2025 Abstract Fermentation produces diverse consumables like bread, wine, beer, and cheese, with fungi playing a key role. This study sequenced fungal and bacteria DNA from 46…
Source: NPR | By Dan Charles | MARCH 11, 2012 Since it seems to be Pest Resistance Week here at The Salt, with stories on weeds and insects, we might as well just pull out all the stops. So, next up: Why…
Source: Mexico Daily News | By MND Staff | July 4, 2024 In what is being called a significant victory for Mexico, Monsanto has withdrawn its legal challenge against the 2020 presidential decree aimed at banning glyphosate and genetically modified…
Source: Beyond Pesticides | June 25, 2024 It has been a couple of weeks since U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking GOP member on the Senate Agriculture Committee, released the Republican framework vision without statutory language for a Senate Farm Bill…
Source: Beyond Pesticides | June 22, 2024 | As Pollinator Week draws to a close, it is important to note that all species—and ecosystems—are threatened by the failure of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to perform its statutory duties…
Free-roaming animals reintroduced in Romania’s Țarcu mountains are stimulating plant growth and securing carbon stored in the soil while grazing Source: Guardian | The Age of Extinction | by Graeme Green A herd of 170 bison reintroduced to Romania’s Țarcu…
Source: Bioneers | Talk by Merlin Sheldrake Before plants evolved their own root systems, fungi provided the connection to the soil that enabled plants to move from water onto land. These underground networks remain crucial to plants’ survival, exchanging nutrients,…
Source: NPR | April 5, 2024 | by Julie Depenbrock The indigenous leaders of New Zealand, Tahiti, Tonga and the Cook Islands have signed a treaty granting whales legal personhood. It’s a step Māori conservationist Mere Takoko says will pressure…