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It addresses several conservation issues, and it \"maintains food assistance for families\" even as it targets abuse of that program, according to \u003ca href=\"http://agriculture.house.gov/press-release/house-senate-negotiators-announce-bipartisan-agreement-final-farm-bill\">identical statements\u003c/a> released by the House and Senate Agriculture Committees late Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The agreement reached on food stamps would cut spending by $8 billion over 10 years, or about one-fifth of the $40 billion sought by House Republicans,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-27/deep-cuts-in-food-stamps-said-averted-in-farm-bill-deal.html\">Bloomberg reports\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new bill would also end a long-criticized crop subsidy program that makes direct payments to farmers, replacing it in part with an enhanced crop insurance program. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77282\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/sushi.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/sushi-1024x574.jpg\" alt=\"Sushi chefs during the 2008 SushiMasters Los Angeles Regional Competition. Many sushi chefs believe bare hands are essential to their art. Photo: Stefano Paltera/AP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"574\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77282\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sushi chefs during the 2008 SushiMasters Los Angeles Regional Competition. Many sushi chefs believe bare hands are essential to their art. Photo: Stefano Paltera/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Miles Bryan, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/26/266761284/sushi-chefs-arent-feeling-californias-new-glove-law\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/28/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Sunday, we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2014/01/26/new-law-puts-gloves-on-california-bartenders/\">told\u003c/a> you about bartenders who are up in arms about a new California law that makes it illegal for culinary workers to touch uncooked food with their bare hands. Turns out, sushi chefs are ticked off, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For sushi chefs, crafting sashimi or a great roll is a lot like creating art. It requires skill and feel. Bare hands are essential.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The new law is not sitting well with chefs like Toshi Sugiura. He's the owner of sushi \u003ca href=\"http://www.zagat.com/r/bar-hayama-los-angeles\">Bar Hayama\u003c/a> in Los Angeles, where diners devour everything from yellow fin to kozara, a kind of Japanese tapas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugiura was making spicy tuna rolls with gloves on when we caught up with him recently. He has made thousands of these rolls before, molding each grain of rice with great attention and precision.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Looks OK to me,\" he says, eyeing one in his hands. \"But still it really feels — something different. I've been doing 30 years making sushi, and it's never been using gloves!\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugiura says that his sense of touch is lost in loose fitting, disposable gloves. The roll he's just made probably won't fall apart, but it won't live up to the sushi tradition's exacting standards either. But Sugiura says he'll reluctantly wear the gloves because he wants to follow the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For all the attention the law is getting, California is not breaking new ground. \u003ca href=\"http://www.calrest.org/about-cra/contact-us/\">Angelica Pappas\u003c/a>, a spokesperson for the California Restaurant Association, says many other states already ban bare-hand contact with food to improve food safety and hygiene. In fact, the change in California wasn't a surprise to big chain restaurants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"They were well prepared for this,\" Pappas said. \"I think it was very much expected. It seems like it was more the California-based companies and independents that weren't expecting this, necessarily.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, gloves aren't a substitute for hand-washing. \u003ca href=\"http://foodscience.ucdavis.edu/people/faculty/cbruhn\">Christine Bruhn\u003c/a> is director of the Center for Consumer Research at the University of California, Davis. She says that cooks who wear gloves forget to wash their hands more often than cooks who don't wear them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"So if you put gloves on dirty hands, you're handling food with dirty hands,\" Bruhn says. \"Gloves are not the barrier you would think they are.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Restaurants can apply for an exemption to the rule. It's something fine dining establishments might do, but chain restaurants might not. It's not yet clear which ones will qualify, or how violations will be prosecuted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California health officials have agreed to a soft rollout of the law for the next six months. Restaurants not complying with the rule will receive only warnings until July.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On our recent visit to Bar Hayama, Sugiura's spicy tuna rolls looked perfect, and the tuna was exactly as rich and savory as it should be. But the rice fell apart a little too quickly in our mouth. It was a tiny flaw in a great dish, but for Suguira and other sushi chefs in California, that's still a big deal. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap580422036986-14bf0fdec4c03f890d304d3ca71add37d15d8d9a.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/ap580422036986-14bf0fdec4c03f890d304d3ca71add37d15d8d9a-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"Farm statistics: usually illuminating ... occasionally misleading. Photo: Seth Perlman/AP\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77231\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm statistics: usually illuminating ... occasionally misleading. Photo: Seth Perlman/AP\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/27/265687251/soil-weedkillers-and-gmos-when-numbers-don-t-tell-the-whole-story\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/27/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I love numbers. A picture may be worth a thousand words, but I think a good bar graph can be worth a thousand pictures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But three times in the past few days, I've come across statistics in reputable-looking publications that made me stop and say, \"Huh?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I did some investigating so you don't have to. And indeed, the numbers don't quite tell the story that they purport to tell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So here goes: My skeptical inquiry into statistics on herbicide use, soil erosion, and the production of fruit and nut.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, weedkillers (and GMOs). I was struck by this graph, which appeared in a \u003ca href=\"http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/Superweeds.pdf\">report\u003c/a> issued by\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/\"> Food and Water Watch\u003c/a>, an environmentalist group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph1.jpg\" alt=\"Herbicide use data from Food and Water Watch. Graph: Food and Water Watch\" width=\"624\" height=\"770\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbicide use data from Food and Water Watch. Graph: Food and Water Watch\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their report was published a while ago, but Tom Philpott re-used it recently in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/usda-prepares-greenlight-chemical-war-weeds\">post\u003c/a> for the web site of \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em> magazine. The point of the chart is to show how increases in herbicide use on soybeans, corn, and cotton have gone hand-in-hand with the rise of genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant, versions of those crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That link seems logical, but still, farmers have been planting more corn and soybeans in recent years. How much of this soaring curve is simply because farmers have more acres to cover?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I dove into the USDA numbers, and discovered, first of all, that they're fragmentary. In recent years, the USDA didn't collect such numbers for all three crops in all years. The curve, in this case, is based on just two data points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter. I took the numbers that\u003cem> were\u003c/em> available and divided them by the number of acres planted. (I'm using a column chart to make clear for which years we have data.) Suddenly, the trend doesn't seem quite so dramatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph2.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph2.png\" alt=\"Herbicide use on corn, soybeans and cotton — break it down per acre and it's not so dramatic. Graph: NPR using USDA data\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77247\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbicide use on corn, soybeans and cotton — break it down per acre and it's not so dramatic. Graph: NPR using USDA data\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And how do we know if herbicide-tolerant GMOs are driving this increase? What if it's something else entirely? For comparison, I decided to look at herbicide use in wheat, since no GMO wheat is being planted. Here's a graph of herbicide use in wheat, per acre, over the same period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoa. No GMOs here, and herbicide use went up at a faster rate. (In absolute amounts, farmers still use much less herbicide on wheat than on soybeans or corn.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph3.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph3.png\" alt=\"Herbicide use per acre on wheat has been going up a lot in recent years. Graph: NPR using USDA data\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77245\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbicide use per acre on wheat has been going up a lot in recent years. Graph: NPR using USDA data\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What could be driving this increase, if not herbicide-tolerant GMOs? I called a few wheat experts in Kansas and Oregon, who mentioned some possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, farmers are reducing their use of tillage to control weeds, in part of conserve their soil. Many are relying more on chemical weedkillers instead. Second, with grain prices high, farmers are more inclined to spend more money on anything that will boost yields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of these factors are probably influencing herbicide use in corn and soybeans, too. They may be more important than the popularity of GMOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing, though, is perfectly clear. The rise of glyphosate-tolerant GMOs did persuade farmers to use much more of that particular chemical. Some argue that a new generation of GMOs that are tolerant to other weedkillers will drive further increases in herbicide use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe they will. I'll wait for the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up, soil erosion. Here's are two maps that caught my attention. They're published in a report called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/technical/nra/nri/\">National Resources Inventory\u003c/a>, released last week by the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. (I should also tell you that the NRCS is one of my very favorite federal agencies; please don't hold this post against it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"1982 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77249\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1982 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dramatic shrinkage of those red and orange botches along America's major rivers is terrific news. It shows that less topsoil is washing away today, compared to 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77248\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2010 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Intrigued by this apparent good-news story, I called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/node/280\">Craig Cox\u003c/a>, in the Iowa office of the Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox already knew about this map. He wasn't happy about it. In his view, it obscures more than it reveals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cox, the good news is old news. Practically all of the dramatic progress in fighting soil erosion occurred 15 years ago, between 1982 and 1997. At that time, \"we were on a really solid pathway to finally getting on top of this ancient enemy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1997, however, progress has stalled, so the map paints an overly cheerful picture. (In fairness to NRCS, there is another, less prominent, graph in the report that does show this stagnation in anti-erosion efforts.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, there's a basic problem with these data, Cox says: \"They only capture one kind of erosion,\" called sheet and rill erosion. This is the erosion that happens evenly across a field, and can be predicted from the amount of rain, the field's slope, its soil type and whether it is bare or covered by grass. The NRCS data is based on such predictions, and the estimated improvements since 1982 happened mainly because farmers are tilling less, and protecting more of their land with vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, no models can predict when something more catastrophic will occur; when small rivulets of water combine into larger, fast-moving streams that cut deep ditches, or gullies, into a field. According to Cox, those gullies actually carry off more soil than the predictable kinds of erosion, and they were especially bad during the storms that hit the Midwest last spring and summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So my straightforward good-news story about soil erosion evaporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, there was a second surprising statistic buried deep inside that NRCS report, and I only noticed it because of a press release that the USDA put out. According to that release, the NRCS's National Resources Inventory detected \"a boom in land dedicated to growing fruits, nuts and flowers, increasing from 124,800 acres in 2007 to 273,800 in 2010.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow! I looked at the numbers again. In fact, the boom was only in a category of production called \"cultivated\" fruit and nut production. Turns out, that's a tiny category, barely worth counting. It apparently refers to orchards in which there's also some tillage going on in order to grow a second crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Uncultivated\" fruit, nut, and flower production, by contrast, went from 4.7 million acres in 2007 to 4.4 million acres in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorry. No boom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, weedkillers (and GMOs). I was struck by this graph, which appeared in a \u003ca href=\"http://documents.foodandwaterwatch.org/doc/Superweeds.pdf\">report\u003c/a> issued by\u003ca href=\"http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/\"> Food and Water Watch\u003c/a>, an environmentalist group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 624px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph1.jpg\" alt=\"Herbicide use data from Food and Water Watch. Graph: Food and Water Watch\" width=\"624\" height=\"770\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbicide use data from Food and Water Watch. Graph: Food and Water Watch\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Their report was published a while ago, but Tom Philpott re-used it recently in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/01/usda-prepares-greenlight-chemical-war-weeds\">post\u003c/a> for the web site of \u003cem>Mother Jones\u003c/em> magazine. The point of the chart is to show how increases in herbicide use on soybeans, corn, and cotton have gone hand-in-hand with the rise of genetically modified, herbicide-tolerant, versions of those crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That link seems logical, but still, farmers have been planting more corn and soybeans in recent years. How much of this soaring curve is simply because farmers have more acres to cover?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I dove into the USDA numbers, and discovered, first of all, that they're fragmentary. In recent years, the USDA didn't collect such numbers for all three crops in all years. The curve, in this case, is based on just two data points.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No matter. I took the numbers that\u003cem> were\u003c/em> available and divided them by the number of acres planted. (I'm using a column chart to make clear for which years we have data.) Suddenly, the trend doesn't seem quite so dramatic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77247\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph2.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph2.png\" alt=\"Herbicide use on corn, soybeans and cotton — break it down per acre and it's not so dramatic. Graph: NPR using USDA data\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77247\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbicide use on corn, soybeans and cotton — break it down per acre and it's not so dramatic. Graph: NPR using USDA data\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And how do we know if herbicide-tolerant GMOs are driving this increase? What if it's something else entirely? For comparison, I decided to look at herbicide use in wheat, since no GMO wheat is being planted. Here's a graph of herbicide use in wheat, per acre, over the same period of time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whoa. No GMOs here, and herbicide use went up at a faster rate. (In absolute amounts, farmers still use much less herbicide on wheat than on soybeans or corn.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77245\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph3.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/graph3.png\" alt=\"Herbicide use per acre on wheat has been going up a lot in recent years. Graph: NPR using USDA data\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-77245\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Herbicide use per acre on wheat has been going up a lot in recent years. Graph: NPR using USDA data\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>What could be driving this increase, if not herbicide-tolerant GMOs? I called a few wheat experts in Kansas and Oregon, who mentioned some possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>First, farmers are reducing their use of tillage to control weeds, in part of conserve their soil. Many are relying more on chemical weedkillers instead. Second, with grain prices high, farmers are more inclined to spend more money on anything that will boost yields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both of these factors are probably influencing herbicide use in corn and soybeans, too. They may be more important than the popularity of GMOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing, though, is perfectly clear. The rise of glyphosate-tolerant GMOs did persuade farmers to use much more of that particular chemical. Some argue that a new generation of GMOs that are tolerant to other weedkillers will drive further increases in herbicide use.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe they will. I'll wait for the numbers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next up, soil erosion. Here's are two maps that caught my attention. They're published in a report called the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/national/technical/nra/nri/\">National Resources Inventory\u003c/a>, released last week by the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service. (I should also tell you that the NRCS is one of my very favorite federal agencies; please don't hold this post against it.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77249\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map1-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"1982 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77249\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">1982 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The dramatic shrinkage of those red and orange botches along America's major rivers is terrific news. It shows that less topsoil is washing away today, compared to 1982.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77248\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map2.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/map2-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"2010 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77248\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">2010 Estimated Sheet and Rill Erosion on Cropland Map: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture/NRCS\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Intrigued by this apparent good-news story, I called \u003ca href=\"http://www.ewg.org/node/280\">Craig Cox\u003c/a>, in the Iowa office of the Environmental Working Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cox already knew about this map. He wasn't happy about it. In his view, it obscures more than it reveals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Cox, the good news is old news. Practically all of the dramatic progress in fighting soil erosion occurred 15 years ago, between 1982 and 1997. At that time, \"we were on a really solid pathway to finally getting on top of this ancient enemy,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since 1997, however, progress has stalled, so the map paints an overly cheerful picture. (In fairness to NRCS, there is another, less prominent, graph in the report that does show this stagnation in anti-erosion efforts.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, there's a basic problem with these data, Cox says: \"They only capture one kind of erosion,\" called sheet and rill erosion. This is the erosion that happens evenly across a field, and can be predicted from the amount of rain, the field's slope, its soil type and whether it is bare or covered by grass. The NRCS data is based on such predictions, and the estimated improvements since 1982 happened mainly because farmers are tilling less, and protecting more of their land with vegetation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By contrast, no models can predict when something more catastrophic will occur; when small rivulets of water combine into larger, fast-moving streams that cut deep ditches, or gullies, into a field. According to Cox, those gullies actually carry off more soil than the predictable kinds of erosion, and they were especially bad during the storms that hit the Midwest last spring and summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So my straightforward good-news story about soil erosion evaporated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Finally, there was a second surprising statistic buried deep inside that NRCS report, and I only noticed it because of a press release that the USDA put out. According to that release, the NRCS's National Resources Inventory detected \"a boom in land dedicated to growing fruits, nuts and flowers, increasing from 124,800 acres in 2007 to 273,800 in 2010.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wow! I looked at the numbers again. In fact, the boom was only in a category of production called \"cultivated\" fruit and nut production. Turns out, that's a tiny category, barely worth counting. It apparently refers to orchards in which there's also some tillage going on in order to grow a second crop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Uncultivated\" fruit, nut, and flower production, by contrast, went from 4.7 million acres in 2007 to 4.4 million acres in 2010.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sorry. No boom. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_77223\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/dsc5253_wide-e6721515059cc3cb03563692251c7cd9d47a8db4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/dsc5253_wide-e6721515059cc3cb03563692251c7cd9d47a8db4-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"A worker at New York's Kings County Distillery, which opened in 2010. Before going legit with the operation, co-founder Colin Spoelman (not pictured) learned to make moonshine in his Brooklyn apartment without a permit. Photo: Courtesy of Valery Rizzo\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-77223\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A worker at New York's Kings County Distillery, which opened in 2010. Before going legit with the operation, co-founder Colin Spoelman (not pictured) learned to make moonshine in his Brooklyn apartment without a permit. Photo: Courtesy of Valery Rizzo\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Alastair Bland, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/21/264573592/making-moonshine-at-home-is-on-the-rise-but-its-still-illegal\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/27/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within days after each season premiere and season finale of the Discovery Channel's reality show \"\u003ca href=\"http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/moonshiners/about-this-show/moonshiners-about-show.htm\">Moonshiners\u003c/a>,\" they come — a small but perceptible wave of people — to purchase suspiciously large amounts of corn, sugar and hardy strains of fermenting yeast at \u003ca href=\"http://www.austinhomebrew.com/\">Austin Homebrew Supply\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We know what they're up to,\" says Chris Ellison, the manager of the Texas store.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That is, it's obvious they're planning to ferment the sugars from grain or fruit juice into alcohol, then distill the resulting mid-strength beverage into high-alcohol hooch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Making spirits at home with plans to drink it is \u003ca href=\"http://www.ttb.gov/faqs/genalcohol.shtml\">against\u003c/a> federal law. Only with the right permits may a person make ethanol, either for use strictly as fuel, or as part of a commercial endeavor — like launching a craft spirits company, of which \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/22/264863748/small-batch-distilleries-ride-the-craft-liquor-wave\">hundreds have opened\u003c/a> nationwide in recent years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet more and more people seem to be making home moonshine, according to sources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The interest level is growing rapidly,\" says Gary Robinson, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.moonshinestillpro.com/default.asp\">Moonshine Still Pro\u003c/a>, a supplier in Missouri. Robinson sells stills — which are perfectly legal to own — from roughly three gallons in capacity to about 13. He ships to all states, but the core regions of his business are the traditional southeastern moonshine districts and the West Coast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mike Haney, owner of \u003ca href=\"http://www.hillbillystills.com/\">Hillbilly Stills\u003c/a> in Barlow, Ky., says his sales of ethanol stills have doubled every year for three years since he opened. \"Just that someone buys a still doesn't mean they're out to break the law,\" Haney points out. \"A lot of people are making fuel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney also sells miniature oak barrels — the sort used for aging bourbon and brandy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But they might be aging wine in them, or just buying everclear from a supermarket and putting that in the barrel,\" he says. \"Anyone can buy a barrel.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney reports that the distilling business seems to be booming globally. He recently shipped equipment to start-up distilleries in China and in Sweden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And interest in distilling is on the rise in Portland, Ore., too, according to Duke Geren, of \u003ca href=\"https://www.fhsteinbart.com/index.php%20\">F.H. Steinbart\u003c/a> homebrew supplies shop. Geren says many customers seem to be inspired by Discovery's popular ongoing television docudrama, now in its third season. Many others, Geren says, are recent immigrants from Eastern Europe wishing to keep alive old traditions of making chacha, rakya, ouzo, vodka, firewater and grappa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"People have brought me some very interesting stuff to try,\" Geren says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet he says he and his colleagues, when they sell a still, must assume that customers are interested in \u003ca href=\"http://makezine.com/projects/home-perfumery/\">making perfumes\u003c/a>, distilled water or some other legal liquid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When customers let on that they want to make hooch, Geren says he must curb the conversation to remain within the bounds of the law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We can discuss with them how spirits are made, but we can't give advice,\" Geren says. To that end, he may suggest instructional books — like \u003ca href=\"http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-alaskan-bootleggers-bible-leon-w-kania/1111351240\">The Alaskan Bootlegger's Bible\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://beer-wine.com/products/moonshine-made-simple\">Moonshine Made Simple\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Besides the legal issues involved, there are also health concerns to worry about. Moonshine can become tainted with toxic liquids, especially methanol, the form of alcohol reputed to cause blindness and death. Making moonshine also poses obvious risks of fire or explosion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Laws against moonshine may place those who wish to make their own line of commercial brandy or other spirit in a tricky situation. Robinson, at Moonshine Still Pro, likens existing distillation laws to a sort of catch-22.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can't open a distillery if you don't know what you're doing, and you can't know what you're doing unless you've practiced somewhere,\" Robinson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Haney, at Hillbilly Stills, says he guesses most professional distillers first dabbled in their craft illegally.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Colin Spoelman, for one, tells The Salt he learned to make moonshine in his Brooklyn apartment in 2008 without a permit before deciding to make the operation legit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Eventually, we got a license to make it legal to do what we were already doing,\" says Spoelman, cofounder of \u003ca href=\"http://kingscountydistillery.com/\">Kings County Distillery\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While most states prohibit home moonshining, state laws sometimes conflict with federal law. In Missouri, for example, a person 21 or over may produce\u003ca href=\"http://www.moga.mo.gov/statutes/C300-399/3110000055.HTM\"> up to 100 gallons of spirits\u003c/a> per year for personal consumption without a permit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But federal law trumps state law, and to the feds, distilling at home for personal consumption is illegal, period.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"If you distill without permits, you're looking at roughly a dozen felonies,\" says Tom Hogue, spokesman for the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. \"It's not something you want to be doing.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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An arm of the World Health Organization has \u003ca href=\"http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol101/mono101-015.pdf\">classified\u003c/a> 4-MEI as a possible carcinogen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Testing by Consumer Reports found very low levels of 4-MEI in Coca-Cola, Coke Zero and Diet Coke. A\u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/03/07/148075310/coca-cola-modifies-caramel-color-to-avoid-cancer-warning-label\">s we've reported\u003c/a>, 4-MEI was greatly reduced in Coke products after Coke worked with its supplier to reformulate the caramel manufacturing process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the study did find higher levels of the compound in some Pepsi products, particularly in Pepsi One. During an eight-month period, the researchers purchased a dozen 12-ounce servings of Pepsi One from different batches at stores in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal government has no limits on 4-MEI, California law says that people should not consume more than 29 mg of the compound per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Pepsi One bottles the researchers examined exceeded California's threshold, containing an average level 43 mg of 4-MEI per 12-ounce serving. Samples of another beverage, Malta Goya, also exceeded the limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some samples of Pepsi One purchased in New York, levels of 4-MEI were even higher. They averaged 195 mg per 12-ounce serving among samples purchased early last year. Newer samples, bought in December, contained lower amounts, averaging 161 mg per 12-ounce serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no reason why consumers need to be exposed to this avoidable and unnecessary risk that can stem from coloring food and beverages brown,\" \u003ca href=\"http://consumersunion.org/experts/urvashi-rangan/\">Urvashi Rangan\u003c/a>, a toxicologist with Consumer Reports, said in a statement. The group has asked the California attorney general's office to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern over 4-MEI in sodas came to the fore a few years back, when California added the compound to a list of possible carcinogens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soda industry knew it needed to make changes to reduce 4-MEI in order to avoid \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/03/coke-changed-caramel-color-to-avoid-cancer-warning-pepsi-in-transition/\">cancer warning labels\u003c/a> on their products sold in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/food/ingredientspackaginglabeling/foodadditivesingredients/ucm364184.htm\">says\u003c/a> it's currently testing a variety of foods, including sodas, for levels of 4-MEI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to The Salt, FDA spokeswoman Juli Putnam said the \"agency is also reviewing new data on the safety of 4-MEI\" to determine if any regulatory action needs to be taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Currently, the FDA has no reason to believe that 4-MEI, at the levels expected in food from the use of caramel colors, poses a health risk to consumers,\" Putnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/03/coke-changed-caramel-color-to-avoid-cancer-warning-pepsi-in-transition/\">reported\u003c/a> last July, Pepsi says it has been making changes to meet California's 4-MEI requirements. And in an email Thursday, company spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez wrote that the \"conversion will be complete by February 2014.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's progress,\" says Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition watchdog group that has been asking for federal action on 4-MEI for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson says the FDA should step up to create federal limits for the amount of 4-MEI allowed in food and drinks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the study did find higher levels of the compound in some Pepsi products, particularly in Pepsi One. During an eight-month period, the researchers purchased a dozen 12-ounce servings of Pepsi One from different batches at stores in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the federal government has no limits on 4-MEI, California law says that people should not consume more than 29 mg of the compound per day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Pepsi One bottles the researchers examined exceeded California's threshold, containing an average level 43 mg of 4-MEI per 12-ounce serving. Samples of another beverage, Malta Goya, also exceeded the limit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In some samples of Pepsi One purchased in New York, levels of 4-MEI were even higher. They averaged 195 mg per 12-ounce serving among samples purchased early last year. Newer samples, bought in December, contained lower amounts, averaging 161 mg per 12-ounce serving.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is no reason why consumers need to be exposed to this avoidable and unnecessary risk that can stem from coloring food and beverages brown,\" \u003ca href=\"http://consumersunion.org/experts/urvashi-rangan/\">Urvashi Rangan\u003c/a>, a toxicologist with Consumer Reports, said in a statement. The group has asked the California attorney general's office to investigate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The concern over 4-MEI in sodas came to the fore a few years back, when California added the compound to a list of possible carcinogens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The soda industry knew it needed to make changes to reduce 4-MEI in order to avoid \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/03/coke-changed-caramel-color-to-avoid-cancer-warning-pepsi-in-transition/\">cancer warning labels\u003c/a> on their products sold in the state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Food and Drug Administration \u003ca href=\"http://www.fda.gov/food/ingredientspackaginglabeling/foodadditivesingredients/ucm364184.htm\">says\u003c/a> it's currently testing a variety of foods, including sodas, for levels of 4-MEI.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an email to The Salt, FDA spokeswoman Juli Putnam said the \"agency is also reviewing new data on the safety of 4-MEI\" to determine if any regulatory action needs to be taken.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Currently, the FDA has no reason to believe that 4-MEI, at the levels expected in food from the use of caramel colors, poses a health risk to consumers,\" Putnam said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/03/coke-changed-caramel-color-to-avoid-cancer-warning-pepsi-in-transition/\">reported\u003c/a> last July, Pepsi says it has been making changes to meet California's 4-MEI requirements. And in an email Thursday, company spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez wrote that the \"conversion will be complete by February 2014.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's progress,\" says Michael Jacobson of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nutrition watchdog group that has been asking for federal action on 4-MEI for several years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jacobson says the FDA should step up to create federal limits for the amount of 4-MEI allowed in food and drinks. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76948\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/farmdata_wide-201becbe7dd71310bd6176b680c9f89e139222ac.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/farmdata_wide-201becbe7dd71310bd6176b680c9f89e139222ac-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Collecting farm data. Image: Adam Cole/NPR\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" class=\"size-large wp-image-76948\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: Adam Cole/NPR\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Listen to the Story\u003c/strong> on \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/21/264577744/should-farmers-give-john-deere-and-monsanto-their-data\">All Things Considered\u003c/a> [audio src=\"http://pd.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/atc/2014/01/20140122_atc_should_farmers_give_john_deere_and_monsanto_their_data.mp3\"] \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/21/264577744/should-farmers-give-john-deere-and-monsanto-their-data\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/22/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting this year, farmers across the Midwest can sign up for a service that lets big agribusiness collect data from their farms, minute by minute, as they plant and harvest their crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monsanto.com/products/pages/fieldscripts.aspx\">Monsanto\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_INT/regional_home.page\">John Deere\u003c/a> are offering competing versions of this service. Both are promising to mine that data for tips that will put more money in farmers' pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a leading farm organization, the American Farm Bureau Federation, is telling farmers to be cautious. These services, it says, could threaten farmers' privacy and give the big companies too much power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data in question come from detailed maps of farmers' fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Quinn, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat on a large farm in northeast Maryland, pulls out a thick binder, opens it up on his kitchen table, and shows me an example. The rectangular outline of one field is covered with multicolored curved shapes, like a weather map showing areas of different temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dark green areas, Quinn explains, are areas that produced higher yields. Light green and red areas produced less. \"And this gray area, that's just zero yield,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of variation is astonishing. It happens because soil types vary, even within a single field. So does moisture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76949\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/fieldsripts-perscription_custom-4923e362bc6c61ab6f0f7f6c4fae5370bcd80fb8.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/fieldsripts-perscription_custom-4923e362bc6c61ab6f0f7f6c4fae5370bcd80fb8-290x251.jpg\" alt=\"Each box on this Monsanto FieldScripts map represents an 18-by-18-foot unit of field. The colors represent different planting rates. Image: Courtesy of Monsanto\" width=\"290\" height=\"251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76949\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each box on this Monsanto FieldScripts map represents an 18-by-18-foot unit of field. The colors represent different planting rates. Image: Courtesy of Monsanto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quinn pulls out the machine that collects the data for this map. It's a superaccurate GPS receiver — an oversize version of the kind you'd have in your car. At harvest time, it goes along in the combine, recording how much grain comes from every spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, at planting time, the receiver controls the planting machinery, placing seeds closer together where the soil is more fertile, or switching seed varieties to match conditions in different parts of the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, the planter is following a pre-programmed \"prescription\" for each part of the field. \"It's all done on software,\" Quinn explains. \"It's loaded onto a thumb drive; you stick the thumb drive into this [GPS display], and when you drive across the field, it automatically knows where it is because of the GPS.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, all this information about his planting and harvest stayed in Quinn's hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, he's taking the next technological step, participating in an experimental version of the data-sharing system that Monsanto is rolling out commercially in the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data will be transmitted directly from his tractor or combine into what computer people call \"the cloud,\" where it will land on Monsanto's computer servers. \"They're going to be able to see everything this [GPS] monitor does. So they're going to be able to look at my field all the time. They'll be able to look at my information, and they're going to just watch that field,\" Quinn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto thinks it can help farmers come up with the perfect prescription of seeds for their soil and weather because the company will have more data than any one farmer can collect or analyze. It will have more detailed soil maps and information from many other fields with similar soil conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76950\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/r4a029515_rrd-4-71b9d0f9346078abf1693c2d39440d734c388544.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/r4a029515_rrd-4-71b9d0f9346078abf1693c2d39440d734c388544-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Companies, like John Deere, that are collecting farmers' data may be able to see how much grain is being harvested, minute by minute, from tens of thousands of fields. Photo: Steve Dolan/Visual Services-East Moline\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76950\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Companies, like John Deere, that are collecting farmers' data may be able to see how much grain is being harvested, minute by minute, from tens of thousands of fields. Photo: Steve Dolan/Visual Services-East Moline\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Eventually, it will have field-by-field weather predictions from a high-tech venture called the Climate Corp., which Monsanto bought last year for $1 billion. (\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/11/131111fa_fact_specter\">published\u003c/a> an interesting profile of the Climate Corp. last November.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've had people ask me, 'Why should Monsanto have all your information?' \" Quinn says. \"My theory is, if they have my information, and they're out there working with me, I'm hoping that they're going to bring me a better product. And them having my information doesn't bother me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Deere, the big farm machinery company, is offering something similar in collaboration with other \u003ca href=\"http://www.pioneer.com/home/site/about/template.CONTENT/guid.0961DD8E-DA33-39A1-BE0C-5534326D35E2/\">big seed companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies are promoting this as a better version of what farmers do already. But the American Farm Bureau Federation is \u003ca href=\"http://ofbf.org/uploads/Proprietary_Information.pdf\">telling\u003c/a> its members: Be careful. This is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Kay Thatcher, the farm bureau's senior director for congressional relations, says farmers should understand that when data move into the cloud, they can go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance: Your local seed salesman might get the data, and he may also be a farmer — and thus your competitor, bidding against you for land that you both want to rent. \"All of a sudden he's got a whole lot of information about your capabilities,\" Thatcher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or consider this: Companies that are collecting these data may be able to see how much grain is being harvested, minute by minute, from tens of thousands of fields. That's valuable information, Thatcher says. \"They could actually manipulate the market with it. They only have to know the information about what is actually happening with harvest minutes before somebody else knows it. I'm not saying they will,\" says Thatcher. \"Just a concern.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Monsanto and John Deere say that they'll share an individual farmer's data only with people whom that farmer wants to see the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In our mind, that data is just as important as a person's banking information,\" says Chris Batdorf, a manager with John Deere's Intelligent Solutions Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batdorf also says that his company won't use the overall, aggregated data — for instance, harvest totals from whole groups of farms — to play in commodity markets. \"John Deere will not do that,\" he says. \"We don't want to do anything with markets or forecasting with this data.\" A Monsanto spokesperson said the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of the rules for how these data will be shared, and how they can be used, haven't been written yet. These data collection programs are just getting off the ground, and they're still evolving. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Post by \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/people/143160021/daniel-charles\">Dan Charles\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/21/264577744/should-farmers-give-john-deere-and-monsanto-their-data\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/22/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting this year, farmers across the Midwest can sign up for a service that lets big agribusiness collect data from their farms, minute by minute, as they plant and harvest their crops.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.monsanto.com/products/pages/fieldscripts.aspx\">Monsanto\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.deere.com/wps/dcom/en_INT/regional_home.page\">John Deere\u003c/a> are offering competing versions of this service. Both are promising to mine that data for tips that will put more money in farmers' pockets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But a leading farm organization, the American Farm Bureau Federation, is telling farmers to be cautious. These services, it says, could threaten farmers' privacy and give the big companies too much power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The data in question come from detailed maps of farmers' fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jonathan Quinn, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat on a large farm in northeast Maryland, pulls out a thick binder, opens it up on his kitchen table, and shows me an example. The rectangular outline of one field is covered with multicolored curved shapes, like a weather map showing areas of different temperatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dark green areas, Quinn explains, are areas that produced higher yields. Light green and red areas produced less. \"And this gray area, that's just zero yield,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The amount of variation is astonishing. It happens because soil types vary, even within a single field. So does moisture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76949\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/fieldsripts-perscription_custom-4923e362bc6c61ab6f0f7f6c4fae5370bcd80fb8.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/fieldsripts-perscription_custom-4923e362bc6c61ab6f0f7f6c4fae5370bcd80fb8-290x251.jpg\" alt=\"Each box on this Monsanto FieldScripts map represents an 18-by-18-foot unit of field. The colors represent different planting rates. Image: Courtesy of Monsanto\" width=\"290\" height=\"251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76949\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Each box on this Monsanto FieldScripts map represents an 18-by-18-foot unit of field. The colors represent different planting rates. Image: Courtesy of Monsanto\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Quinn pulls out the machine that collects the data for this map. It's a superaccurate GPS receiver — an oversize version of the kind you'd have in your car. At harvest time, it goes along in the combine, recording how much grain comes from every spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Later, at planting time, the receiver controls the planting machinery, placing seeds closer together where the soil is more fertile, or switching seed varieties to match conditions in different parts of the field.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Essentially, the planter is following a pre-programmed \"prescription\" for each part of the field. \"It's all done on software,\" Quinn explains. \"It's loaded onto a thumb drive; you stick the thumb drive into this [GPS display], and when you drive across the field, it automatically knows where it is because of the GPS.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Until now, all this information about his planting and harvest stayed in Quinn's hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, he's taking the next technological step, participating in an experimental version of the data-sharing system that Monsanto is rolling out commercially in the Midwest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Data will be transmitted directly from his tractor or combine into what computer people call \"the cloud,\" where it will land on Monsanto's computer servers. \"They're going to be able to see everything this [GPS] monitor does. So they're going to be able to look at my field all the time. They'll be able to look at my information, and they're going to just watch that field,\" Quinn says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Monsanto thinks it can help farmers come up with the perfect prescription of seeds for their soil and weather because the company will have more data than any one farmer can collect or analyze. It will have more detailed soil maps and information from many other fields with similar soil conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76950\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/r4a029515_rrd-4-71b9d0f9346078abf1693c2d39440d734c388544.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/r4a029515_rrd-4-71b9d0f9346078abf1693c2d39440d734c388544-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Companies, like John Deere, that are collecting farmers' data may be able to see how much grain is being harvested, minute by minute, from tens of thousands of fields. 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(\u003cem>The New Yorker\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/11/11/131111fa_fact_specter\">published\u003c/a> an interesting profile of the Climate Corp. last November.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've had people ask me, 'Why should Monsanto have all your information?' \" Quinn says. \"My theory is, if they have my information, and they're out there working with me, I'm hoping that they're going to bring me a better product. And them having my information doesn't bother me.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Deere, the big farm machinery company, is offering something similar in collaboration with other \u003ca href=\"http://www.pioneer.com/home/site/about/template.CONTENT/guid.0961DD8E-DA33-39A1-BE0C-5534326D35E2/\">big seed companies\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both companies are promoting this as a better version of what farmers do already. But the American Farm Bureau Federation is \u003ca href=\"http://ofbf.org/uploads/Proprietary_Information.pdf\">telling\u003c/a> its members: Be careful. This is different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mary Kay Thatcher, the farm bureau's senior director for congressional relations, says farmers should understand that when data move into the cloud, they can go anywhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For instance: Your local seed salesman might get the data, and he may also be a farmer — and thus your competitor, bidding against you for land that you both want to rent. \"All of a sudden he's got a whole lot of information about your capabilities,\" Thatcher says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Or consider this: Companies that are collecting these data may be able to see how much grain is being harvested, minute by minute, from tens of thousands of fields. That's valuable information, Thatcher says. \"They could actually manipulate the market with it. They only have to know the information about what is actually happening with harvest minutes before somebody else knows it. I'm not saying they will,\" says Thatcher. \"Just a concern.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Both Monsanto and John Deere say that they'll share an individual farmer's data only with people whom that farmer wants to see the information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"In our mind, that data is just as important as a person's banking information,\" says Chris Batdorf, a manager with John Deere's Intelligent Solutions Group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Batdorf also says that his company won't use the overall, aggregated data — for instance, harvest totals from whole groups of farms — to play in commodity markets. \"John Deere will not do that,\" he says. \"We don't want to do anything with markets or forecasting with this data.\" A Monsanto spokesperson said the same.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of the rules for how these data will be shared, and how they can be used, haven't been written yet. 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There have been lawsuits to stop him and others trying to get into the business. And plenty of stories about the ick factor evoked by the image of butchering a beautiful thoroughbred.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, given a bit of language written into the omnibus spending bill that was approved by the Senate on Thursday night, it's seeming more certain that there will be no horse slaughtering on U.S. soil in the foreseeable future. The House already approved the spending measure, which now heads to President Obama for his signature.\u003cstrong>\u003cbr>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The provision bans the funding of U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections at horse slaughter plants. And without inspections, slaughterhouses can't be in business. Game over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Americans do not want to see scarce tax dollars used to oversee an inhumane, disreputable horse slaughter industry,\" Wayne Pacelle of the Humane Society argues in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2014/01/congress-urged-to-ban-funding-for-horse-slaughter-011414.html\">press release\u003c/a>. He has been lobbying for a ban on funding for horse slaughter inspections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We don't have dog and cat slaughter plants in the U.S. catering to small markets overseas, and we shouldn't have horse slaughter operations for that purpose, either,\" Pacelle writes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For retiring Rep. \u003ca href=\"http://moran.house.gov/\">Jim Moran\u003c/a> (D-Va.), it's a win he helped usher through.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"These incredible companion animals don't deserve to be callously slaughtered for human consumption,\" his office wrote in an email to The Salt. \"We fought hard for the past three years to reinstate this ban to prevent slaughter facilities from reopening on American soil.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The flip side of the argument is that horse slaughter is a practical way to handle the problem of \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91142984\">abandoned horses\u003c/a>. Horses can be very expensive to maintain, and when owners can't afford them, it's not unheard of for them to be sent to factories in Mexico and Canada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's the argument put forth by Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who tried but failed to strike the ban on funding inspections from the spending bill.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Without these facilities, aging horses are often neglected or forced to endure cruel conditions as they are transported to processing facilities across the border,\" Inhofe wrote in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.inhofe.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/inhofe-introduces-amendment-to-allow-horse-slaughter-plants\">release\u003c/a>. \"This provision is counterproductive to what animal rights activists are hoping to achieve.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Inhofe is not giving up yet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before Thursday night's Senate vote, Inhofe said he and Rep. 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But these healthy options cost more in the U.K. than in any other country in Western Europe. Photo: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Michaeleen Doucleff, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/01/14/262465619/where-in-the-world-is-the-best-place-for-healthy-eating\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (1/15/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Dutch are known for their lax drug laws, tall statures and proficient language skills.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps we should add stellar eating habits to that list, as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Netherlands ranked as the easiest country in the world in which to find a balanced, nutritious diet, the advocacy group Oxfam \u003ca href=\"http://www.oxfamamerica.org/press/publications/good-enough-to-eat\">reported\u003c/a> Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>France and Switzerland shared the second slot. And Western Europe nearly swept the top 20 positions, with Australia just edging into a tie for 8th.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where did the U.S. land?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We tied with Japan for 21st place, despite the fact that we have the most cheap food available. Our friendly neighbors to the north, Canada, took the 25th position out of 125 countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\n\u003ch3>The Healthy Food Rankings\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>According to the advocacy group , here are the easiest and hardest countries in the world to find a nutritious and diverse diet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Best:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n1. Netherlands\u003cbr>\n2. France, Switzerland\u003cbr>\n4. Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Belgium\u003cbr>\n8. Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Luxembourg, Australia\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Worst:\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\n121. Yemen\u003cbr>\n122. Madagascar\u003cbr>\n123. Ethiopia, Angola\u003cbr>\n125. Chad\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76569\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/103402910-a647eb882e3c794690b1e75078a0b4baea44a495.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/103402910-a647eb882e3c794690b1e75078a0b4baea44a495-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"A banana seller makes his way to the market in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura. The small country in eastern Africa ranked last in terms of malnutrition in children. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-76569\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A banana seller makes his way to the market in Burundi's capital, Bujumbura. The small country in eastern Africa ranked last in terms of malnutrition in children. 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But 900 million people still don't have enough to eat, and 1 billion people are obese. It's a crazy situation.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To compile the rankings, Lawson and his colleagues spent a few months analyzing eight reports from the World Health Organization, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/home/en/\">Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N.\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ilo.org/global/lang--en/index.htm\">International Labor Organization\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A country's score depends on how much food is available (so richer countries have an advantage), the nutritional value of that food and how diet helps or harms the nation's health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The team measured that last metric by looking at diabetes and \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/01/02/259115022/overweight-people-in-developing-world-outnumber-those-in-rich-countries\">obesity\u003c/a> rates in each country. Not surprisingly, that's where the U.S. stumbles: We ranked 120th out of 125 countries in terms of how diet influences health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The problem is linked to poverty, Lawson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Food is very, very cheap in the U.S. compared to most countries,\" he explains. \"But the fact is you end up with people malnourished in one of the richest countries because they don't have access to fresh vegetables at a cheap enough price to make a balanced diet.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the other end of the spectrum are countries that struggle just to get enough food on each family's table each day. 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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_76357\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1674px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/istock_000009301894large_wide-5c4877bea72fb2b3c67d39b336b59e1c659506e0.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/01/istock_000009301894large_wide-5c4877bea72fb2b3c67d39b336b59e1c659506e0.jpg\" alt=\"After Grist's six-month-long series on genetically modified foods, some loyal readers accused the site of changing directions in the debate. Photo: iStockphoto\" width=\"1674\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-76357\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After Grist's six-month-long series on genetically modified foods, some loyal readers accused the site of changing directions in the debate. 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On the one hand, most of Grist's readers and supporters despise GMOs, seeing them as a tool of corporate agribusiness and chemical-dependent farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, says Rosenberg, he'd been struck by the passion of people who defended this technology, especially scientists. It convinced him that the issue deserved a fresh look.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I met \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/author/nathanael-johnson/\">Nathanael\u003c/a>, I thought, 'This is a writer who could do this really well,' \" recalls Rosenberg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson came to this assignment with the kind of skepticism about green orthodoxy that comes from growing up immersed in it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was born into the cult of organic,\" he \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/food/beyond-gut-instinct-a-manifesto-for-clean-eating-and-clear-thinking/\">wrote\u003c/a> in one of his first Grist columns. His parents were \"Berkeley hippies\" who moved back to the land in Nevada City, Calif. Growing up there \"gave me a front-row seat from which to observe how faith in nature could spin into fuzzy thinking and paranoia,\" Johnson wrote. \"I loved science because it could separate plausible and crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson dove into his GMO assignment with that same devotion to weighing the evidence. If you're confused by the long-running GMO fight — and even more if your mind is already made up — it's worth reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be warned, though: You'll need some stamina. There are several notable things about this online experiment in explanatory journalism, and the first is its length. Johnson covers questions both obvious (Are GMO foods\u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/food/the-gm-safety-dance-whats-rule-and-whats-real/\"> tested\u003c/a> for safety?) and obscure (Are independent scientists \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/food/genetically-modified-seed-research-whats-locked-and-what-isnt/\">banned\u003c/a> from carrying out research on GMOs?).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More unusual, though, is its approach. In an online world of snark and smack-downs, Johnson presents his work as a humble quest for truth. For the most part, he convinces you that it's an honest search, and that he's not sure, himself, where he'll end up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Where he ends up, in fact, is the final surprising thing about this series. Instead of preaching to the deep-green choir, Johnson questions its faith. He challenges many of the anti-GMO views that Grist's readers are used to seeing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which doesn't put him squarely in the pro-GMO camp, either. Unlike British polemicist Mark Lynas, who switched sides in this debate, Johnson is all about nuance. Are GMOs bad for the environment? Well, yes and no. They've allowed farmers to \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/food/in-the-insecticide-wars-gmos-have-so-far-been-a-force-for-good/\">cut\u003c/a> their use of insecticides while \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/food/roundup-ready-aim-spray-how-gm-crops-lead-to-herbicide-addiction/\">increasing\u003c/a> the use of chemical weed-killers. More effective weed control is good for crop yields but bad for the Monarch butterfly. And so on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Grist's readers haven't appreciated the nuance, and reacted to Johnson's series with the kind of anger that's reserved for those who betray a righteous cause.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I've got news for Johnson,\" \u003ca href=\"http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/news/archive/2013/15019-nathanael-johnson-a-beacon-in-the-smog\">wrote\u003c/a> Claire Robinson, from GM Watch. \"Misleading the readers of an until-now respected publication like Grist doesn't make him exciting, creative or cool. It just makes him an unreliable source.\" Instead of being, as Grist's slogan promises, a \"beacon in the smog,\" Robinson accused the site of \"operating more like a smog machine.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I was unprepared for the ugliness\" and the personal attacks, Johnson admits. \"I'd never felt anything like that before\" in 10 years of journalism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many proponents of GMOs, meanwhile, \u003ca href=\"http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2013/07/18/grist-challenges-its-own-shaky-crop-biotechnology-reporting-sets-stage-for-gmo-science-journalism-conclave/\">praised\u003c/a> Johnson's efforts. Jon Entine, who writes for the \u003cem>Forbes\u003c/em> site, described it as a partial repudiation of Grist's previous \"embarrassing coverage\" of the issue.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those GMO supporters, however, weren't quite so happy with Johnson's final \u003ca href=\"http://grist.org/food/what-i-learned-from-six-months-of-gmo-research-none-of-it-matters/\">wrap-up pos\u003c/a>t this week, which carried the headline: \"What I learned from six months of GMO research: None of it matters.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The most astonishing thing about the vicious public brawl over GMOs is that the stakes are so low,\" Johnson wrote. Essentially, if you care about the environment or human welfare, it just doesn't matter very much whether farmers are planting GMOs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An essential personal disclosure here: In that final essay, Johnson quotes approvingly from my own \u003ca href=\"http://www.amazon.com/Lords-Of-The-Harvest-Biotech/dp/073820773X\">book\u003c/a> about GMOs, published way, way back in 2001. So perhaps I'm paying extra attention to Johnson's work because we agree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet 13 years ago, when I argued that GMOs didn't matter all that much for the environment or human welfare — certainly not compared to old-fashioned things like tilling grasslands or draining wetlands — people mostly looked puzzled. I wonder whether Johnson's work will have more resonance — whether, for instance, apocalyptic rhetoric about GMOs will give way to a calmer understanding of what's at stake.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson isn't sure.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I look at the comments, I get the feeling that nothing will ever change,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, there are occasional personal exchanges that leave him more optimistic. He cited an online conversation with another writer who's been a frequent GMO critic: \"I felt like we were building a slender bridge across the chasm.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Growing up there \"gave me a front-row seat from which to observe how faith in nature could spin into fuzzy thinking and paranoia,\" Johnson wrote. \"I loved science because it could separate plausible and crazy.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson dove into his GMO assignment with that same devotion to weighing the evidence. If you're confused by the long-running GMO fight — and even more if your mind is already made up — it's worth reading.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Be warned, though: You'll need some stamina. There are several notable things about this online experiment in explanatory journalism, and the first is its length. 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