Nathanael Johnson
Can we stop stupid politics from ruining carbon farming?
It seems like every Democratic presidential candidate wants to get farmers sucking carbon out of the air and sticking it ...
While managed honeybees get all the attention, some native pollinators ‘dwindle toward extinction’
Those honeybees you’ve been fretting over are getting native bumblebees sick. A new study shows that viruses infecting domestic honeybees ...
Fungus-resistant hazelnuts illustrate how genetic modification safeguards our food supply
Ordu is a picturesque city between the mountains and the Black Sea, where a quarter of the world’s hazelnuts grow ...
‘Regenerative agriculture’: World-saving idea or food marketing ploy?
You’re about to start seeing the term “regenerative” when you scan packages of Cheerios and boxed mac and cheese in ...
Cattle industry fights to preserve ‘meat’ label as plant-based meat-like products proliferate
The cattle ranchers and farm bureaus of America are not going to give up their hold on the word meat ...
Billionaires and Bacteria are Racing to Save Us From Death by Fertilizer
It was January 15, 1881, and the U.S. envoy to Peru had to duck for cover .... Chile had invaded Peru ...
Why it’s OK to change your mind, from a former anti-GMO activist
Once upon a time, shortly after the age of bloodletting, people thought that facts could change minds. It may seem ...
R.I.P. Monsanto. Our hates will go on.
Welp, this is the end of Monsanto. Not the end of the seed company, mind you, but the end of ...
Small artisanal farms might not be our environmental salvation
[Cricket flour] was the first note of a dinner set up by the Breakthrough Institute, a pro-technology environmental think tank, in order ...
The Impossible Burger wouldn’t be possible without genetic engineering
[Editor's note: Read a San Francisco Chronicle article about this controversy and letter from the CEO of Impossible Foods here.] ...
Slugging it out with a new contender in the GMO debate
“I thought it might be worth meeting,” [said Penn State University entomologist John Tooker], “because I read the piece where ...
A crucial climate mystery is just under our feet
[F]armers could turn their fields into giant greenhouse gas sponges, potentially offsetting as much as 15 percent of global fossil ...
What the New York Times missed with its big GMO story
The [Danny Hakim] story is an odd one for the Times because if you take the most mild interpretation of ...
Americans love genetically modified mosquitoes much more than other GMOs
When the news started to spread about a plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, it seemed ...
Monsanto’s new GMO soybeans are making a hot mess for farmers
. . . The leaves are gone from the . . . peach trees on Bill Bader’s orchard . . ., and soy ...
The world’s biggest seed companies are wooing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. They call the giants ...
Can we finally make gasoline out of corncobs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .Take ...
What’s a GMO? Apparently not these magic mushrooms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
These vitamin-fortified bananas might get you thinking differently about GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the winter of ...
A bill to block GMO labeling fails key Senate vote
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A bill that would ...
Farmers don’t try new things because it’s too risky. This could change that
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The problem with revolutionary ...
Brazilian state bans pesticide following conspiracy theory linking Monsanto to microcephaly
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. You may have seen ...
Here’s new news about pesticides and bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bees are struggling, and ...
It’s practically impossible to define “GMOs”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Debates rage over what ...
The next big food safety technology could be from this ancient root
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What if our next-generation, futuristic ...
Here’s how to do GMO labeling so everyone wins
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What would it look ...
What does “organic” actually mean?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does organic actually ...
No, there’s no ‘human’ in your veggie dogs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There was a bit ...
