Michael Grunwald on the environmental risks of big agriculture

Michael Grunwald on the environmental risks of big agriculture

A new book called “We are Eating the Earth” suggests that modern agriculture is an environmental disaster. Michael Grunwald spoke Tuesday at a seminar hosted by the Institute for Biodiversity Law & Policy on the Gulfport, Florida campus of Stetson University College of Law. “There really are some environmental costs in intensive agriculture, especially in nutrient pollution from synthetic fertilizer. There are also real environmental benefits fr…