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Senate panel warms to GMOs

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On October 21st, for ...
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Do industrial agricultural methods actually yield more food per acre than organic ones?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If we choose to ...

What TPP means for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The TPP opened North ...
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Fear of rogue organism, global catastrophe drives anti-GMO hysteria

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are GMOs just too ...
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Are scientists who collaborate with industry tainted?

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When does conflict of ...

To make meat greener, make it more efficiently

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Meat consumption is increasing around the world as countries become wealthier. That leaves us with the practical meat question — that is, the ...

Slate: Anti-GMO activists say the darnedest things

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When activist organizations issue over-the-top press releases or make non-scientific claims, I just shake my head, but unless I’m writing at ...
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Why are bees hurting? A lineup of suspects

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In my last piece I made the case that the rumors of honeybee extinction have been greatly exaggerated, but honeybees ...
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Why the bee crisis isn’t as bad as you think (but still matters)

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There’s a note of evangelical glee in some of the predictions of bee extinction. Vanishing bees are a sign of the end ...

Removing antibiotics from food makes a difference, removing GMOs doesn’t

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A lot of food companies are jumping on the transparency bandwagon. Panera, Chipotle, and Pepsi are labeling foods and removing ...

So Roundup “probably” causes cancer. This means what, exactly?

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The World Health Organization just classified glyphosate — the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup — as a probable carcinogen. Don’t forget ...

Are shrooms the new pesticide?

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Scientists in Ireland have found that growing fungus inside barley helps the plants ward off disease. Brian Murphy, a botanist at Trinity ...

Russian outfit plans to spend $25 million to secretly study GMOs

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Back in November, a group that has campaigned against GMOs in Russia announced that it was going to do a ...
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So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how

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Over the past six months I’ve been trying to figure out how we can feed ourselves sustainably and equitably without ...

Psst, Congress, you have a little food stuck in your Cromnibus

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Congress has just passed the so-called Cromnibus — a giant $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep government programs running. Last year, ...

We can feed the world without chopping down more forests

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Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population — cutting down forests, plowing prairies ...

Even this organic advocate thinks African farmers need herbicide

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Why aren’t agroecological techniques farming spreading faster among poor farmers? If you are a farmer in the rural part of an ...

GMO labeling laws keep failing. Here’s why we can expect more

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After efforts to label genetically engineered foods failed in Oregon and Colorado, I asked Stuart Elway, president of the Seattle-based polling ...

Top Ten issues more important than labeling GMOs

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As a follow up to his list of 4 problems that GMO labeling won't solve, Nathanael Johnson of the environmental ...

4 concerns mandatory GMO labels don’t address

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This election season, there are initiatives on the ballot in Colorado and Oregon to label foods made with the help ...

Mainstream consumers don’t appear concerned about GMOs

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It’s starting to look like the average eater doesn’t care about GMOs. At the very beginning of 2014, General Mills ...

Why Vandana Shiva is so right and yet so wrong

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Romantic environmentalists tend to get the big-picture problems right, while fudging the details. Rationalists nail the details, but sometimes become ...
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Is producing more food to feed the world beside the point?

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Supporters and critics of crop biotechnology clash over whether GMOs can help 'feed the world'--or even whether we have a ...

Moving past GMO debate: Monsanto executive, organic farmer and anti-industrialist activist agree on future for agriculture

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In the days leading up to a panel discussion on GMOs put on by Climate One, I started getting nervous. I was slated ...

5 Surprises in the USDA’s study of GE crops

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The USDA's study of genetically engineered crops in the United States is a pretty dry and unsurprising document, but when read ...
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Nathaneal Johnson: All or nothing debate over GMOs–Does any of it matter?

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Johnson bemoans that too much of the conversation about GMOs remains stuck on cliches and focused on extremes and ideology--not ...
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20 answers on GMOs: What would conversation be like if we discarded ideology?

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Do GMOs pose unique health or environmental problems? Not likely, says Grist columnist, who offers his year end recipe for ...

Block party: Are activists thwarting GMO innovation?

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Is there evidence that groups fighting against genetically modified food have thwarted good technologies that would otherwise make agriculture more ...
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