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Headline	Author	Published	Section
China's coming land grab More hidden costs of our love affair with cheap imported goods	Tom Philpott	11 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, Brazil, China, economy, rainforests (all these topics)

Jolly gene giant A review of Claire Hope Cummings' Uncertain Peril	Guest author	02 May 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, books, GMOs (all these topics)

Food crisis resolved! Let's raze more Amazon rainforest!	Tom Philpott	28 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, deforestation, food, rainforests (all these topics)

What are GMOs good for, again? Study: transgenic soy brings lower yields than conventional	Tom Philpott	23 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Big Ag, food, GMOs (all these topics)

Fortune Brainstorm Green Monsanto CEO applies for sainthood	David Roberts	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, food, greenwashing (all these topics)

Please, sir, I want some GMOs Worldwide resistance to GMOs dwindle as food bills rise	Tom Philpott	22 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, economy, energy, food, GMOs (all these topics)

Bush's bread man Baltimore baker takes on great quacking menace	Glenn Hurowitz	21 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: wildlife, energy, biofuels, Big Ag, politics, agriculture, food (all these topics)

What the world needs now Three million more acres of industrial corn?	Tom Philpott	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, cellulosic ethanol, Department of Agriculture, industrial ag (all these topics)

Who's cashing in on the high price of food? With food riots raging, let's open the books on the finances of Big Ag	Anna Lappe	18 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, biofuels, business, food, World Bank (all these topics)

ANWR of the heartland? Why plowing up Conservation Reserve Program land won't solve the food crisis	Tom Philpott	11 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, cellulosic ethanol, economy, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Can industrial agriculture feed the world? Part 2 Global food riots edition	Tom Philpott	10 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Smithfield's European strategy The hog giant CAFOizes Poland and Romania to gain access to Western Europe	Tom Philpott	09 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, European Union, food, industrial ag, Poland, Romania (all these topics)

Vanity is Green Digging into the relationships between business and environmentalism	Maywa Montenegro	07 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, celebrity, green living, music, shopping (all these topics)

Who owns your tomato? Another big horticultural seed company bought by Monsanto	Matthew Dillon	04 Apr 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, Department of Justice, food, industrial ag, regulation (all these topics)

Got food? Farmworker Awareness Week is a chance to recognize the people whose labor means we can eat	Fawn Pattison	31 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, environmental justice, food, grassroots activism, health, toxics (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Waste makes haste Canada says no to ethanol waste as cow feed, and more	Tom Philpott	26 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Arkansas, Big Ag, ethanol, food, health, industrial ag (all these topics)

Strike a blow against palm oil madness Rainforest Action Network's new pledge petition	Joseph Romm	25 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: Big Ag, business, celebrity, deforestation, grassroots activism, rainforests (all these topics)

Superweeds on the march In Arkansas, state ag officials turn to Syngenta to solve problems caused by Monsanto	Tom Philpott	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, industrial ag, toxics (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: How now, mad cow? 'Downergate' reveals gaps in mad-cow testing and trouble in school-lunch sourcing	Tom Philpott	14 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, animal welfare, Big Ag, fashion, food, Food and Drug Administration, industrial ag, TV, vegetarianism and veganism (all these topics)

Meat Wagon: Beef behemoth If deals go through, three firms will own 90 percent of the U.S. beef market	Tom Philpott	05 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, industrial ag (all these topics)

Cutting Carbofuran EPA attempt to ban bird-killing pesticide runs into opposition		03 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 4:54 PM on 03 Mar 2008 The U.S. EPA has proposed a ban on a pesticide lethal to birds, but is running into resistance from the company that produces the chemical. The pesticide, carbofuran, is typically used on crops such as corn, alfalfa, and potatoes, and has been linked to the dieoff of 558 separate bird flocks since 1972. A manager with pesticide manufacturer FMC Corp. says carbofuran, "when use ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, Congress, industrial ag, news, politics, toxics, US EPA, wildlife (all these topics)

Forbidden fruits (and vegetables) Why the USDA wants to stop local food	Kurt Michael Friese	03 Mar 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, food, local food, politics (all these topics)

Biofuels: good for agrochemical/GMO biz GMO giant Monsanto wows Wall Street, consolidates its grip on South America	Tom Philpott	13 Feb 2008	Gristmill

Topics: agriculture, Argentina, Big Ag, biofuels, Brazil, business, energy, food, GMOs, industrial ag (all these topics)

Dominant Traits Monsanto's latest court triumph cloaks massive market power	Tom Philpott	17 Jan 2008	Victual Reality
How does your garden grow? Photo: iStockphoto At first glance, it was an open-and-shut case. In 1998, Mississippi farmer Homan McFarling bought soybean seeds with genetic traits owned by Monsanto, then as now the world's dominant provider of genetically modified seeds -- and also the biggest herbicide maker. Like all farmers who buy GM seeds, McFarling signed a contract obliging him not to ...
Topics: agriculture, Big Ag, business, food, Victual Reality (all these topics)

Feedlot meat production: nothing if not profitable Tyson Foods chief nets $10 million -- oops, no, $24 million	Tom Philpott	27 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: industrial ag, business, Big Ag, agriculture, food (all these topics)

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