Tom Laskawy
Why biotech developers don’t deserve the World Food Prize
Tom Laskawy, founder and executive director of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, wrote in Civil Eats why the winners of ...
Grist story on ‘superweeds’ attempts to demonize biotech by describing evolution
Biotech crops, which represent almost all the corn, soy, and cotton grown in the U.S., have finally met their match ...
Grist touts discredited GM pig study
The following is an excerpt. You’ll remember, I’m sure, the recent brouhaha over a French study by scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini that purported ...
Grist on wrong side of science in embarrassing anti-biotech jihad
The following is an edited excerpt. Thirty years ago, scientists figured out how to directly modify the genes in our ...
What’s in store for food reform in Obama’s second term?
When Obama was first elected, food reformers dreamt big. As Michael Pollan wrote just after the 2008 election in his ...