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What matters more? What you eat or how it’s made?
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What matters more? What you eat or how it’s made?

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A study found the quality of a person's diet was strongly associated with their risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes and dying young.

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Too much fertilizer disrupts the hidden world of soil-dwelling microbes that were sustaining healthy crops long before synthetic fertilizer was invented.

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How everyone pays the cost for patents on seeds, and private companies get rich from keeping them secret

  • Julie Dawson, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Kiki Hubbard, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Paulina Jenney, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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When huge companies assert their patents, smaller businesses and public plant breeders are dissuaded from conducting research that might not be illegal at all.

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