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Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for failing to close a regulatory loophole allowing insecticide-coated seeds to avoid regulation.

There are many voices who argue effectively and well that agroecology holds the answers that can address the shortcomings of our farm and food systems.  I have added my voice to theirs as a farmer and steward of my own small-scale, diversified farm in Iowa.

Watch the recording of The Problem with Pesticides, a discussion hosted by Real Food Media featuring PAN Senior Scientist Emily Marquez and partners from the Center for Biological Diversity, US Right to Know, and Hawai’i Alliance for Progressive Action.

Unless you live in one of the states in which PAN has an on-the-ground organizing presence, (Minnesota, California, and Hawai‘i) you might not know about the exciting state-level legislative work we’ve been doing with partners across the country. So, let us fill you in!

Last Sunday night, I had the opportunity to view a brilliant display of the aurora borealis (Northern Lights) that was stronger than any I had witnessed previously. The lights pulsed and reached for the skies directly above me.

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Who owns our food system?

We’ve been hearing rumours about possible mergers between pesticide/biotech corporations for a while now. Will Monsanto buy Syngenta? Or Bayer? Will the “Big 6” become the “Big 4” or “Big 3” — or perhaps one corporation to rule us all? As the growth in some

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France (partially) pulls the plug on glyphosate

Earlier this month, France’s health and safety agency announced plans to withdraw authorization of herbicides containing both glyphosate and the additive tallowamine. As reported by Reuters, a spokesperson for the agency said: “It is not possible to guarantee that compositions containing glyphosate and tallowamine do

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Have you heard the latest bee buzz?

Yesterday, the “Pollinator Protection Act” took a big step forward in the California legislature, moving closer to becoming state law. This is just one of many positive developments for bees in recent weeks.

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Guess what?! Strawberry pesticides are in the air.

What’s being applied on the strawberry field next door? For many Californians, the answer is a big question mark. And the issue has taken on added significance as state officials consider how best to answer that question — and then inform parents about the health-harming

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