“In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn.”
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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, rather than to their supposed antagonisms.
The big journals and Nobel laureates are the equivalent of Congressional leaders in science journalism.
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before.