Racial and economic inequity is a central feature of the industrial and corporate-controlled food system

Thus, as with the 1956 Soil Bank Program from which the CRP grew, it is the least productive land and lowest income households that are often enrolled and kept profitable. Second, studies have shown that conservation compliance does not present a strong economic deterrent for landowners who want to crop former CRP acreage after the CRP…

This bill drastically reduced and reshaped federal food and agricultural support

During the 1990s there were numerous mergers between agricultural, pharmaceutical, and chemical firms tied to the global seed industry that aimed to take advantage of potential synergies and secure even greater corporate profit and strength. Because the mergers took place within the globalized market where most seed industry markets exist beyond one nation-state, however, these expected…

Congressional negotiations on the composition of the bill typically take between two to three years

Such changes have been facilitated by a mix of high-tech globalized financial systems and labor markets, speculative financial markets, corporate control over the public sphere, increased commodification of human heritages , and increased consumerism. inequality, are also antithetical to one another, despite recent gains in terms of USDA Civil Rights settlements and slowly increasing participation…

Very few studies explicitly examine local farmer knowledge in the context of alternative agriculture

A noticeable spike in PURE indices appeared in 1998 for organic agriculture caused by a single application of copper sulfate with an application rate of 150 lb/acre, which is ten times larger than the average application rate and clearly a data abnormality. The PURE index is a measure of environmental impacts on the per acre…

Another study examined the impact of cannabis on the gut microbiota and diet-induced obesity in mice

Lastly, future studies examining the effect of marijuana legalization on adolescent marijuana use should assess mediation by marijuana availability as a potentially important locus of intervention, particularly as more governments are likely to adopt liberalized marijuana policies. Researchers should seek to better understand this association and its environmental determinants, including in South America with additional years…

Natural disease was the second-most frequent cause of mortality in our study

We used a multinomial logistic regression model to assess the effects of several variables on the relative frequencies of cause-specific mortality which consisted of “natural disease,” “poisoning,” “predation,” and “human-caused,” however, we excluded unknown causes. We pooled human-caused mortalities with those from vehicular strike as “vehicular/ human” for modeling due to small sample sizes and…

Multiple studies have aimed to describe the role of cannabinoids in appetite stimulation

Estimated associations were imprecise because of the small number of units that were included in the analysis,but are meaningful for the study jurisdictions. Cities and unincorporated county areas that had 8 or more cannabis control policies generally had greater population density, more renters, fewer family households, more crowded households, and higher densities of social organizations compared with…

The new adjustments created a space for the development of the legal cannabis industry

The proposition did not have the force of law but simply declared the city’s support of medical cannabis. The ballot passed with 79 percent of the vote. The backing of the city administration encouraged Peron to launch the San Francisco cannabis buyers’ club, whose main goal was to provide safe access to quality controlled medicine so…