Tom Philpott

“We have to find a compromise.”

“This is the Black Farmers Civil Rights Act of 2020, and it’s long overdue.”

Nanotech is in everything from yogurt to cheese singles to Tic-Tacs. And it’s largely unregulated and untested.

A new study on genetically modified soybeans finds that the herbicide Roundup is making its way into our food.

Techno-optimists are cheering about the first taste test of in vitro meat, but take your $330,000 lab burger with a grain of salt.

Scientists have blamed insecticides for years, but new research suggests another deadly killer…

Roundup-resistant weeds colonized 60 million US acres in 2012—up 50 percent from the year before.

Like any globally traded commodity, the trendy Andean psuedo-grain offers promise and peril to the people who grow it.

Big Ag’s plan to kill spray resistant weeds? More spraying.

When the FDA cracked down on the beef industry, E. coli poisoning plummeted. But salmonella on poultry? As bad as ever.