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Diabetes Rates Are Finally Starting to Fall

Americans have been slowly improving their diets, moving away from sugary drinks and highly processed food. And they're starting to reap the fruits, so to speak, of this shift.The latest evidence:...

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This Is the Scariest Superbug Yet

In mid-November, a group of Chinese and UK researchers published a paper in The Lancet delivering some sobering news: They had found a strain of E. coli in Chinese pigs that had evolved to withstand...

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This Scientist Uncovered Problems With Pesticides. Then the Government...

Until fairly recently, Jonathan Lundgren enjoyed a stellar career as a government scientist. An entomologist who studies how agrichemicals affect the ecology of farm fields, he has published nearly 100...

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The King of Beers Wants to Push Craft Brews out of Your Supermarket

Pity Anheuser-Busch InBev, the Belgian-owned behemoth responsible for such beloved US beers as Budweiser, Bud Light, and Michelob Ultra. When InBev bought US beer giant Anheuser-Busch back in 2008, the...

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We're Eating Less Meat—But Using More Antibiotics on Farms Than Ever

The meat industry's massive appetite for antibiotics just keeps growing. That's the takeaway from the Food and Drug Administration's latest annual assessment of the issue, which found that agricultural...

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Move Over, Monsanto: The Pesticide and GMO Seed Industry Just Spawned a New...

US chemical titans Dow and DuPont have agreed to a $130 billion merger. Once combined, DowDuPont (as it will be known) intends to split into three parts, including one devoted solely to agriculture....

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2 Surprising Reasons Why Japan Won't Stop Hunting Whales

Japan is dead set on hunting whales—international critics be damned. In 2014, the International Court of Justice ordered the country to stop hunting whales. But at the beginning of this month, Japan...

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The 7 Biggest Food Stories of 2015

The food politics beat was as tumultuous and fascinating as ever in 2015. Here, in no particular order, is my list of the year's biggest stories. Let me know what I missed in the comments section.1)...

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