{"id":58873,"date":"2021-08-02T10:07:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58873"},"modified":"2021-08-02T10:07:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T15:07:38","slug":"food-and-farming-reads-of-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=58873","title":{"rendered":"Food and farming reads of 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Food and farming reads of 2021<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n

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We share some of the most interesting reads from the past year, on everything from toxic weedkillers to bringing back beavers.<\/p>\n

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Toxic legacy: How the weedkiller glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephanie Seneff<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stephanie Seneff is an MIT scientist who has now dedicated her life to debunking the myths around the safety of glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup. Her book,\u00a0Toxic Legacy,<\/em>\u00a0rests on a foundation of comprehensive, objective and accessible science \u2013 the credibility of which is assured through Seneff\u2019s impressive academic credentials, achieving four different degrees and publishing over 200 articles.<\/p>\n

With a dry wit and powerful sincerity, Seneff takes readers on a meticulous journey that details the toxic impact of glyphosate on people and the planet. First navigating the history of glyphosate and how it works as an herbicide,\u00a0Toxic Legacy<\/em>\u00a0unearths the roots of our glyphosate dependency and extent of our exposure. Seneff then unravels the science exposing glyphosate\u2019s toxicity, exposing its links to the degradation of the microbiome, liver disease, infertility, antibiotic resistance, depression, soil degeneration, water contamination and mass biodiversity loss. Ending on a note of cautious optimism,\u00a0Toxic Legacy<\/em>\u00a0concludes with a call to transition towards organic, regenerative and sustainable agriculture, offering guidance on how to \u2018take control\u2019 of our health and protect ourselves against glyphosate\u2019s toxicity.<\/p>\n

The tone of Seneff\u2019s writing is understated yet powerful, scientific but accessible, providing a fresh and vigorous review of research on glyphosate. But considering such a wide scope of evidence often comes with drawbacks. While Seneff\u2019s credentials are flawless and the evidence persuasive, Seneff often draws a correlation between rising disease rates and glyphosate use, the relationship of which is unsubstantiated in certain cases…<\/p>\n

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Food and farming reads of 2021 We share some of the most interesting reads from the past year, on everything from toxic weedkillers to bringing back beavers. Toxic legacy: How the weedkiller glyphosate is destroying our health and the environment Stephanie Seneff Stephanie Seneff is an MIT scientist who has now dedicated her life to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[299,319,31575,6867],"class_list":["post-58873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-farming","tag-food","tag-reading-material","tag-sustainable-food-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58874,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58873\/revisions\/58874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}