We asked scholars of #food and #agriculture what texts they're excited to engage with in the semester ahead.
Check out the recs below from @[email protected], Lisa Jean Moore, @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], @[email protected], and @[email protected]
https://edgeeffects.net/faculty-favorites-food-agriculture/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/edgeeffectsmag/status/1618613496895401985
RT @Food_EU: 1 in 3 bee, butterfly & hoverfly species are disappearing in the EU.
As the overuse of pesticides is a threat to our food security, to biodiversity & to our environment, reducing its risk and use will be critical.
Today, we present a new deal for #EUPollinators
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1617876358977449984
How current science & regulatory agencies still do things
"The Asilomar organizers addressed this problem partly by restricting invitations. Most of the participants were in the mainstream of molecular biology. Relatively few were likely to insist on addressing problematic social applications of their field" https://muse.jhu.edu/article/26056
"This is an ideal film to use for teaching precisely because it raises issues that reach far beyond the injudicious choices of a naïve and overly ambitious young researcher."
CRISPR’s Icarus
https://issues.org/crispr-make-people-better-documentary-cook-deegan/
Just a single serving of freshwater fish per year could result in the same exposure to the “forever chemical” perfluorooctane sulfonate as drinking a month's worth of water laced with the chemical, according to a recent study.
https://thefern.org/ag_insider/study-freshwater-fish-full-of-forever-chemicals/
Just a single serving of freshwater fish per year could result in the same exposure to the “forever chemical” perfluorooctane sulfonate as drinking a month's worth of water laced with the chemical…
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