The organic food industry is a booming business, with sales surging last year by 12.4% to $61.9 billion. However, most people don’t know what “organic” really means. In 2014, brand consultancy BFG surveyed 300 shoppers. Of those shoppers, 70% purchased organic food, but only 20% of respondents could define organic. [...]
Organic fertilization co-selects genetically linked antibiotic and metal(loid) resistance genes in global soil microbiome Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and metal(loid) resistance genes (MRGs) coexist in organic fertilized agroecosystems based on their correlations in abundance, yet evidence for the genetic linkage of ARG-MRGs co-selected by organic fertilization remains elusive. Here, an analysis of [...]
