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Monsanto U.
Public-university researchers get cash for studying GMOs -- and the shaft for studying organic ag |
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20 Feb 2008 |
Gristmill |
| The following is a guest essay by Nancy Scola, a Brooklyn-based writer. Her essay, which first appeared on Alternet, is a lucid, detailed look at what has become of public-university agriculture research in an age of budget austerity. ----- I've startled a bug scientist. 'Yeah, now I'm nervous,' said Mike Hoffmann, a Cornell University entomologist and crop specialist who spends his days with cucumber beetles and small wasps. But he's also in charge of keeping the ... |
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| Topics: agriculture, education, food, GMOs, industrial ag, organic food, scientific research (all these topics) |
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