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"Big Food Strikes Back" [1]

"Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture?"

Agriculture [2]
Environmental Politics [3]
Food [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: NY Times [8], 10/06/2016
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Canadian Farmers, Anti-GMO Groups Urge Review Of Monsanto Deal [9]

"A Canadian farming federation and an anti-GMO network are separately calling on the federal Competition Bureau to review the possible implications of Bayer's $66 billion US takeover of seed giant Monsanto."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [10]
Consumer [11]
Economy & Business [12]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
Canada [13]
Source: CBC News [14], 09/30/2016
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Pork Producers Win Appeal in CAFO Disclosure Case [15]

In addition to nuisance smells, confined animal feeding operations (aka CAFOs) can present serious air and water pollution problems. They are weakly regulated. Now a federal appeals court says information on who owns those feedlots can be kept secret. Image: © Clipart.com [16].

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"Farming Mega-Mergers Threaten Food Security, Say Campaigners" [20]

"Deals would put the majority of seeds, chemicals and GM traits in the hands of three companies, deepening poverty for small-scale farmers".

Agriculture [2]
Economy & Business [12]
Public [6]
International [21]
Source: Guardian [22], 09/27/2016
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"Pesticide Manufacturers' Own Tests Reveal Serious Harm To Honeybees" [23]

"Bayer and Syngenta criticised for secrecy after unpublished research obtained under freedom of information law linked high doses of their products to damage to the health of bee colonies".

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [24]
Science [25]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Guardian [26], 09/23/2016
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"Monsanto May Have Just Ended The War On GMOs" [27]

"The next genetically modified food you eat probably won't be a GMO."

Agriculture [2]
Food [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Technology [28]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Business Insider [29], 09/23/2016
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"FDA Finds Monsanto’s Weed Killer In U.S. Honey" [30]

"The Food and Drug Administration, under public pressure to start testing samples of U.S. food for the presence of a pesticide that has been linked to cancer, has some early findings that are not so sweet."

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [24]
Food [4]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Source: Huffington Post [31], 09/21/2016
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"Group Says It Has Sued Dow Over Pesticide Used In California" [32]

"Chemical manufacturing giant Dow fails to warn people in farming communities throughout California when a potentially dangerous pesticide is applied to nearby fields, health advocates claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday."

Agriculture [2]
Air [33]
Chemicals [10]
Environmental Health [24]
Laws & Regulations [5]
Public [6]
California [34]
Source: AP [35], 09/21/2016
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"Irrigation Nation" [36]

"How an esoteric piece of farm equipment created America’s breadbasket—and threatens to destroy it."

Agriculture [2]
Technology [28]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [6]
National (U.S.) [7]
Great Plains (IA KS ND NE MO SD) [38]
Southwest (AZ NM OK TX) [39]
Source: Pacific Standard [40], 09/20/2016
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DEP: No Legal Requirement To Tell Neighbors Of Phosphate Plant Sinkhole [41]

Florida environmental agencies said they are not legally required to notify homeowners whose well water was contaminated by a sinkhole at a major phosphate operation.

Agriculture [2]
Chemicals [10]
Pollution [19]
Water & Oceans [37]
Public [6]
SE (AL AR FL GA KY LA MS NC PR SC TN) [42]
Source: Tampa Bay Times [43], 09/20/2016
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