Articles by Tom Philpott
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Monsanto Just Made a Massive Mistake
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
22 Aug 2016
One of its weed killers seems to be wiping out valuable crops, too. Oops. The Environmental Protection Agency announced it had gotten an ‘unusually high number of reports of crop damage that appear related to misuse of herbicides containing the active ingredient dicamba.’ Complaints of drooping and often dead crops appeared in no fewer than 10 US states.
→ read full articleAre Nanoparticles from Packaging Getting into Your Food?
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
30 Jun 2014
One list of packaging that could contain nanoparticles includes beer-bottles, aluminum foil, sandwich bags, and even a salad bowl.
→ read full article40 Percent of Your Chicken Nugget Is Meat. The Rest Is…
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
14 Oct 2013
Marketing isn’t about giving people what they want; it’s about convincing people to want what you’ve got—that is, what you can buy cheap, spiff up, and sell at a profit. Take the chicken nugget, that staple of fast-food outlets and school lunches.
→ read full articleCDC Reveals Scary Truth about Factory Farms and Superbugs
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
23 Sep 2013
Nearly 80 percent of antibiotics consumed in the United States go to livestock farms. Meanwhile, antibiotic-resistant pathogens affecting people are on the rise. Is there a connection here?
→ read full articleMeet the Weeds That Monsanto Can’t Beat
Tom Philpott for Mother Jones – The Guardian,
31 Dec 2012
When Monsanto revolutionised agriculture with a line of genetically engineered seeds, the promise was that the technology would lower herbicide use – because farmers would have to spray less. In fact, as Washington State University researcher Chuch Benbrook has shown, just the opposite happened.
→ read full articleMonsanto Denies Superinsect Science
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
19 Sep 2011
As the summer growing season draws to a close, 2011 is emerging as the year of the superinsect—the year pests officially developed resistance to Monsanto’s genetically engineered (ostensibly) bug-killing corn. Monsanto, for its part, is reacting to the news with a hearty “move along—nothing to see here!”
→ read full articleWhat the USDA Doesn’t Want You to Know About Antibiotics and Factory Farms
Tom Philpott – Mother Jones,
1 Aug 2011
Here is a document the USDA doesn’t want you to see. It’s what the agency calls a “technical review”—nothing more than a USDA-contracted researcher’s simple, blunt summary of recent academic findings on the growing problem of antibiotic-resistant infections and their link with factory animal farms. The topic is a serious one. A single antibiotic-resistant pathogen, MRSA—just one of many now circulating among Americans—now claims more lives each year than AIDS.
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