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Weekend Reading: Soda Science

Food Politics

Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. This terrific book picks up where I left off with Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) (2015) and Unsavory Truth: How the Food Industry Skews the Science of What We Eat (2018). The second half gives an intimate, first-hand account of how science politics works in China.

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Bayer CEO rules out spinning off crop science business

Real Agriculture

Bayer’s CEO has ruled out the possibility of spinning off the company’s crop science division as a separate business. In a news conference on Tuesday, Bill Anderson said the company has completed a thorough review of its current structure, which includes three divisions: pharmaceuticals, consumer health, and crop science.

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Bayer considering spinning off crop science business

Real Agriculture

Bayer’s new CEO says the company’s management is evaluating whether to spin off its crop science division as part of a company-wide restructuring process.

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Industry-funded study of the week: marketing, not science

Food Politics

I have long argued that industry funded studies are about marketing, not science. That’s marketing, not science. If it were about science, the investigators would design their study to find out which product does a better job of reducing methane emissions, if any. This may sound like a subtle difference, but it is anything but.

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University of Guelph students winners at national weed science contest

Real Agriculture

The University of Guelph’s weeds team were big winners at the Weed Science Society of America’s National Weed Science Contest in Union City, Tennessee this past week The 17-member team of graduate and undergraduate students have been preparing for months to test their weed ID, herbicide symptomology, sprayer calibration and farmer problem (..)

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Defra to continue badger cull if science is good, says Coffey

Farmers Weekly

Farmers Weekly Defra secretary Therese Coffey has given her clearest indication yet that her department will continue to cull badgers to tackle bovine TB in England, if the science shows it is working.

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RealAg Politics: Replacement worker hurdles, Transport Canada rail review, and science-based policy

Real Agriculture

On this show, host Shaun Haney is joined by: Steve Pratte, senior manager, transportation and biofuel policy with the Canadian Canola Growers Association, on Transport Canada’s upcoming railway policy review; Erin Gowriluk, president of Canada Grains Council, on the importance of science-based policy; and, Alanna Koch, Read More It’s time (..)

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