Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Gene editing to avoid GMO regulations could be solution for food security
According to the World Food Program, some 795 million people – one in nine people on earth – don’t have ...
White House taking steps to reassure wary public about GMO safety
The White House has a message for America: There's nothing dangerous about genetically modified food that makes it to your ...
How do polyculture cover crops in agriculture compare to monocultures?
Planting cover crop mixtures is very popular right now. The practice has a feel-good aspect about it and, buoyed by ...
American eugenics movement saw babies’ fitness judged at state fairs
Eugenics became a popular ideology in the United States beginning in the second decade of the twentieth century. Concerned with ...
Sensationalist news on bees, neonicotinoids, ‘junk science’ leads to bad policy
Next to Congress, the least-trusted institutions in the United States include newspapers, television and Internet news, according to Gallup. But ...
Farmers abandoning organic farming despite lure of higher price premiums
Organic food sales are booming and some studies claim it's more profitable for farmers because of cprice premiums. But costs ...
Agriculture economist Jayson Lusk on why public is wary of GMOs
Just as more Americans grow wary of GMOs, the scientific community is moving in the opposite direction. There is now ...
Monsanto’s Robb Fraley invites Neil Young to tour company
I believe that Neil Young has a heart of gold. The singer/songwriter has been one of my favorite artists ever ...
Video: UN goals for reducing hunger best achieved by investing in agricultural research
Bjørn Lomborg, director of non-profit think tank Copenhagen Consensus, says that investing in agricultural research and development is one of the best ...
GMO or not? Is new genetically edited herbicide tolerant canola oil a GMO?
Cibus is a San Diego-based biotech company developing new ways to genetically engineer crops, without producing so-called GMOs. They're hoping ...
German Greens and Social Democrats propose national GMO ban
Germany’s debate over banning genetically modified (GM) plants has come to a head: Green/Social Democratic coalitions in the states of Rhineland-Palatinate, ...
Administration proposal to overhaul GMO regulations welcomed, but sharp divide on goals
The Obama administration said on July 2 that it would update the way the government regulated genetically modified crops and some ...
Why farmers are offended by buzzwords like ‘sustainable agriculture’
The Risk-Monger spent the day on a large Belgian farm having the opportunity to see the challenges and opportunities farmers ...
Talking Biotech: Scientists testify on GMOs before Congress; American Farm Bureau on biotech challenges
Briefing US lawmakers on GMOs: Chris Barbey and Alejandra Abril Guevara; Farm Bureau view of biotech challenges: Andrew Wamsley ...
Talking Biotech: Anti-GMOers misrepresent glyphosate study; Carrots’ evolutionary roots and future
Activists twisted my glyphosate research: Fiona Young; Carrot future: Shelby Ellison and Philipp Simon ...
Why Whole Foods and Chipotle’s anti-GMO campaigning has lost my business
I’ve become an accidental activist on behalf of GMOs, in part because of misleading fear based marketing campaigns by food ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week
This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
Antibiotics may exert long-lasting effects on gut microbiome
Even short pulses of widely used antibiotics can lead to long-term development changes in mouse pups, including increased body mass ...
Global scientists assess homeopathy-funded Séralini study claiming all GMO tests ‘contaminated’
Scientists from North American and Europe weigh on on the latest Séralini study, published after a two week delay after ...
Friends of the Earth ‘investigation’ of GMO science supporters dismissed as “contrived”
Like a previous report from food activist Michele Simon a few years ago (Best PR Money Can Buy) the Alliance for ...
UK GM wheat trial highlights costs of violent activism
The failure of GM wheat developed by UK researchers to repel pests not only highlighted the scientific process, but also ...
Could Africa’s own indigenous ‘superfoods’ rival GMOs?
Superfoods exist in Africa thanks not to the genius and beneficence of a foreign company, but rather through millennia of ...