Articles by Sr. Staff Writer Nathanael Johnson

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Sketchy food policy: Exploring our broken food system in cartoons

Marion Nestle's newest book packs a lot of food policy into easy-to-digest illustrations. Here's a sampling.

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Golden apple or forbidden fruit? Following the money on GMOs

Surprise! When it comes to assessing who benefits the most from gene-splicing technology in food farming -- corporations? farmers? us? -- there's no consensus.

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Monsanto ponies up and Big Ag pulls ahead in GMO labeling horse race

DuPont Pioneer and Monsanto drop late-breaking millions into the campaign against a Washington state ballot initiative to label GMOs.

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Pork it over: U.S. OKs Chinese purchase of its largest pig company

The feds allow the sale of Smithfield to a Chinese swine conglomerate, after determining bacon supplies are not critical to U.S. security.

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