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The Decisions Behind Monsanto's Weed-Killer Crisis

In early 2016, agri-business giant Monsanto faced a decision that would prove pivotal in what since has become a sprawling herbicide crisis, with millions of acres of crops damaged.

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Australian Slavery Inquiry Told Fruit Pickers 'Brainwashed' and Trapped in Debt

A Malaysian journalist who went undercover to expose exploitation in Victoria's fruit picking industry said workers were "brainwashed" with religion and trapped in debt to keep them on farms.

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CVS Adds Next-Day Prescription Delivery As Threat of Amazon Competition Looms

Amid broad anticipation that Amazon will soon get into the pharmacy business and disrupt the business of selling prescription drugs, pharmacy giant CVS Health has announced it will launch a next-day prescription delivery service nationwide.

New Bluetooth Transmitter Provides Package-Level Visibility

Logistics and asset monitoring company RoamBee says that visibility, down to the package level, and end-to-end asset management are now possible with its "BeeBeacon" mobile monitoring technology.

Thanks to Wall St., There May Be Too Many Restaurants

The way Marcus Mooney saw it, he wasn't just selling hot dogs - he was selling experiences.

Baidu Aims for 'Android' of Robocar Tech With Open-Source Apollo Platform

Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang has a mild-mannered style at odds with his bold goals for "Apollo," the fast-growing, open-source self-driving car platform the Chinese tech giant launched in July.

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Investigation Highlights Labor Abuses in U.K. Supermarket Supply Chains

The British Retail Consortium (BRC) has urged the government to do more to ensure the safety of supply chain workers, following revelations of labour abuses at farms supplying U.K. supermarkets.

France, Land of Croissants, Finds Butter Vanishing From Shelves

It's hard to imagine a country where butter is taken more seriously than it is in France.

Amazon's Push Into Pharmacy Business Is Full of Promise and Pitfalls

A move by Amazon.com Inc. into the $412bn pharmacy business would shake up how generations have gotten their medicines, but success could prove elusive even for the ever-expanding e-retailer.

Chinese Scientists Create Cost-Saving, Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques.

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Inspection Battle Threatens Egypt's Wheat Supply

Wheat shipments to Egypt, the world's largest buyer, are being disrupted by a dispute involving government inspectors angered by a ban on the expenses-paid foreign trips they once enjoyed to approve cargoes at their ports of origin.

Latest Use for Bitcoin Technology: Tracing Turkeys From Farm to Table

Agricultural conglomerate Cargill Inc. aims to harness the technology underlying bitcoin to let shoppers trace their turkeys from the store to the farm that raised them.

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