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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

With the EPA on life support, states take the lead: Vermont finally bans Parkinsons-causing paraquat www.theguardian.com/environment/.... Syngenta has been ginning up agnotology for years movementdisorders.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Vermont becomes first US state to ban paraquat herbicide over Parkinson’s fears

Lawmakers cite studies linking weedkiller to Parkinson’s as pressure mounts for a wider US ban

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Paul Ehrlich has shuffled off the mortal coil. I know he meant well but he spread a profoundly ignorant and politics-blind understanding of #overpopulation and food. If you read this new piece in The Conversation be sure to read the 1st recommended piece at the bottom tinyurl.com/mttyawt7

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Syngenta gets a big headline for pulling the plug on paraquat, but so what? Others make and sell it in the US (although it is banned elsewhere) www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Syngenta says it will stop making pesticide linked to Parkinson’s disease

Company will halt production of controversial paraquat weed killer by end of June as it faces thousands of lawsuits

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Today: Trump's order makes glyphosate a strategic national resource and shields producers from lawsuits tinyurl.com/yfccenm6 With most major US crops are now worth less than what it costs to produce them, rice farmers want to be paid them to destroy what they've harvested. tinyurl.com/5n928xu5

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Promoting the National Defense by Ensuring an Adequate Supply of Elemental Phosphorus and Glyphosate-Based Herbicides

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Defense Production Act of 1950, Every child deserves a safe and nurturing hom...

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Marcus Taylor @marcusetaylor.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Our latest paper engages @gdstone.bsky.social's theory of agricultural deskilling. We introduce the theory of ‘agrarian skilling’ to expand and complement Stone's theory of agricultural knowledge production. Open access at this link: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @drflachsophone.bsky.social

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

No kidding... the most famous chart showing the triumph of science in food production actually shows one of agriculture's biggest dumpster fires tinyurl.com/ae2wssj4

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Mexico forced by trade tribunal to import #GMO corn because the objections are "not based on science." De veras? Two top Mexican scientists (including former director of national science agency) speaking on this tinyurl.com/3pntut95

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Mexican scientists to speak on GM corn risks

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I know a physical anthropologist who just had an NSF proposal on neanderthal thermoregulation flagged for some sort of wokeness. I wish I were joking.

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Repeating a myth doesn’t make it true. Green Revolution didn't cause "staggering" food increases tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey. In India, which was supposedly on the verge of famine, it didn’t increase the food growth rate in India at all.

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey says the Green Revolution spread to cattle & chicken farming. Green Rev started in '67 in India, >3 decades after poultry factory farms started in Delmarva, >1 decade after cattle feedlots spread to absorb excess corn.

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Breakfast for Eight Billion

Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

‪How many historical errors can one neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey implies the Dutch famine of 1944-45 was an example of persistent European famine. Not the Nazi food blockade? #hunger

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Breakfast for Eight Billion

Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

How many historical errors can a neo-Malthusian screed have? tinyurl.com/nhe5b3ey says Haber & Bosch "completed their work in the run-up to" WW2 so their process wasn't used much until after the war. ??? It produced millions of tons of explosives in WW2; was even used by the Germans in WW1.

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Breakfast for Eight Billion

Fertilization, irrigation, genetics: the three practices that let us feed the whole world for the first time in history

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

New book by Liza Grandia: Guatemalan peasants give Monsanto a rap on the snout.

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

OK, LMAO. Now for more on Campbell's Soup: did u know that they co-sponsored development of the first #GMO food crop, the FlavrSavr tomato, but then decided not to use it in their own soups, to avoid compromising their brand's image. tinyurl.com/bdf82eaf

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

New article: New #digital "agricultural revolution" in #India. tinyurl.com/2ejtufa8 But as you can see, I'm getting to be the buzzkill guy on digital agriculture. (Here's why in case you're interested tinyurl.com/53fzw4ms. It's about #SurveillanceAgriculture)

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

New blog post: GOOD LUCK WITH THE CORN, RFK YOU A-HOLE fieldquestions.com/2024/12/10/g...

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Glenn Davis stone @gdstone.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

New documentary: Out of Plain Sight featuring the awesome Rosanna Xia (who found out abt the 550k barrels of DDT off California) and the incredible Barbara Cohn (who found out abt DDT's long-term health effects). Gives new meaning to "forever chemicals." tinyurl.com/3kwh49am

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PHI's Dr. Cohn Featured in ‘Out of Plain Sight’ Documentary on DDT and Health - Public Health Institute

Dr. Barbara Cohn, Director and Senior Research Scientist at PHI's Child Health and Development Studies is featured in Out of Plain Sight, a new documentary…

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