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      A farmer plants cover crops following a corn harvest in Maryland on October 9, 2020.

      Big Ag Exploiting Carbon Markets to Intensify Grip on Food System: Report

      "Corporations are designed to serve their investors, not the public, and that's exactly what these carbon offsetting schemes will do," said one researcher.

      Kenny Stancil
      Mar 01, 2023

      Climate and agricultural policies aimed at bolstering carbon markets will fail to curb planet-heating emissions while enabling powerful agribusiness corporations to greenwash their polluting operations and augment their control over the food system.

      That's according to Agricultural Carbon Markets, Payments, and Data: Big Ag's Latest Power Grab, a report published Wednesday by Friends of the Earth, an environmental advocacy group, and the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly think tank.

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      Mexican farmers take part in a march against NAFTA

      US Attempt to Sabotage Mexico's GMO Corn Ban Denounced as '21st-Century Imperialism'

      "Our government is working tirelessly to pad the multibillion-dollar profits of domestic agribusiness corporations by pushing GE corn," said one U.S. environmental group.

      Jake Johnson
      Feb 15, 2023

      Environmental groups on Tuesday accused the Biden administration of putting the profits of big agribusiness over public health and critical pollinators by attempting to obstruct the Mexican government's ongoing push to ban genetically engineered corn.

      "The U.S.'s shameful efforts to strong-arm Mexico into accepting GE corn it has rejected is nothing short of 21st-century imperialism,” Lori Ann Burd, environmental health director at the U.S.-based Center for Biological Diversity. "Our government is working tirelessly to pad the multibillion-dollar profits of domestic agribusiness corporations by pushing GE corn, even though our glyphosate-drenched GE cornfields are playing an outsized role in driving catastrophic declines in vital pollinator populations."

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      A woman carries a sign reading "Science not Silence"

      Experts Condemn Biden Admin's Proposed 'Gag Rule' for Federal Scientists

      "This restriction on discussing the implications of research has no place in a scientific integrity policy," said one government accountability expert.

      Julia Conley
      Feb 10, 2023

      Scientists and government oversight watchdogs are expressing alarm over new language in the White House's "scientific integrity" framework, which one group said amounts to a "gag rule" that would harm federal researchers' ability to study issues including the climate emergency and public health threats.

      As The Guardianreported Friday, a new draft of the revised Framework for Federal Scientific Integrity Policy and Practice was released by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) last month, but went largely unreported by the press.

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