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Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents, monocrops

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By Stacy Malkan If Bill Gates has his way, the food in our future will little resemble what’s on our plates today. Gates and his agribusiness industry partners are proposing to transform our food and how it is produced. To the techno-food industrialists, hunger and climate change are problems to be solved with data and … Bill Gates’ radical menu for food systems: ultra-processed foods, patents, monocrops

Gene Editing Mishaps Highlight Need for FDA Oversight

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A Midwestern company’s quest to genetically engineer the world’s first hornless dairy cows hit a snag this summer when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration found extra genes in the cows that weren’t supposed to be there. The mistakes that FDA caught – but the company missed – highlight the importance of government oversight of … Gene Editing Mishaps Highlight Need for FDA Oversight