🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
If you've wondered, like I have, how tf Graham Platner made it through vetting with multiple credible sexual assault allegations? He didn't. The guy in charge of vetting him also has multiple credible allegations, & just didn't think vetting was important. slate.com/news-and-pol...
The Guy Who Recruited Graham Platner Has a History of Sexual Misconduct Allegations TooIs this why Platner made it so far?slate.com
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And if Bill Gates being a "real farmer" makes us feel icky, maybe it's a good time to unpack why we still think- in a country that we all know was founded on kidnapping people to work on farms, both big & small- that "farmer" can only be a title of honor.
California just became the first major grid system on the planet to generate more than 50% of its electricity from solar across an entire month.
Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
public health guyit does actually sound like taylor farms and the white house teamed up to try and blame taco bell for the outbreak. unprecedented corruption
Yep. As a small farmer & big believer in conservation: lots of "farm conservation easements" are, unfortunately, scams that kneecap agriculture. Not help it. It's the same hustle as farm subsidies. "Let's throw free money at landowners. So they don't have to treat farming like a real job."
Matthew YglesiasOne of my hottest takes — it makes sense for public policy to preserve nature as a priority but farms aren’t nature! www.slowboring.com/p/farms-aren...