With antibiotic resistance on the rise, what does the future look like?

Rose Eveleth | 
Over the past 85 years, antibiotics have been miracle drugs. They’ve kept infections at bay and opened up a world ...
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The sustainability case for “industrial agriculture”

Ted Nordhaus | 
Attacks on GMOs is often a proxy for criticisms of globalization, corporate agriculture, synthetic chemicals. But these debates often lose ...

Iran’s new GMO cotton could increase yields by five times or more

Iran has unveiled the first sample of genetically modified cotton, which has been produced through indigenous technology by Iranian specialists ...

California drought highlights need for genetic engineering of crops

Ted Sheely | 
In this time of unprecedented drought, much attention has been focused on the use of water for farms to grow ...

Agriculture’s climate change costs could be minimized by trading crops

Clifton Parker-Stanford | 
If countries and farmers make adjustments in what crops they grow and where, then the effects of climate change on ...
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USDA’s non GMO labeling proposal doesn’t satisfy genuine ‘right to know’

Steve Savage | 
While the Agricultural Department edges towards embracing a new food label, it's missing the opportunity to provide a meaningful 21st ...
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Jane Brody: Anti-GMO movement needs to rethink fear-based opposition

Jane Brody | 
A review of the pros and cons of G.M.O.s strongly suggests that the issue reflects a poor public understanding of ...

BBC debate: Is GMO opposition grounded in science?

Should we embrace technology that could help feed the world, or are concerns about the impact of global agribusiness and ...
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Making case for organics: Costs more but ‘you should buy it anyway’ because of fewer chemicals

Joanna Blythman | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Loud voices dismiss organic ...

Why ‘GMO-free’ and ‘antibiotic-free’ are worlds apart

Francie Diep | 
Poultry giant Foster Farms announced it would cut back on the antibiotics it feeds to its chickens. This follows similar promises from Tyson ...

Study: Scientific proof of safety unlikely to sway hardened GMO skeptics

Even when provided with scientific information about genetically modified organisms or global warming, some consumers may hold fast to the ...
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Why seed saving and traditional farming may not be the most sustainable way to farm

Marc Brazeau | 
Trying to protect farmers’ rights to save seeds only has an economic importance in low productivity systems where the benefits ...

Is anti-biotech mandatory labeling lobby now acknowledging GMOs are safe?

Cat Ferguson | 
Two competing federal bills are working their way through Congress that would override the mishmash of state-by-state GMO labeling laws. One of ...

Study claims organic farmers earn more than non-organic counterparts

Justin Worland | 
Growing organic food can be significantly more profitable than traditional farming, netting organic farmers 22 percent to 35 percent more than their conventional counterparts, ...
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Would Monsanto-Syngenta merger trigger reorganization of seed business?

The new mega-corporation formed in the proposed deal between Monsanto and Syngenta would be “the world’s largest seed and crop ...
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Anti-GMO bungle: Claim GM genes pass from food into blood collapses

Jon Entine | 
In 2013, when PLoS One published a research paper, Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood, anti-GMO activists ...

By implying GMO ingredients less safe, labeling fails test for rationality

Drew Kershen, Henry Miller | 
The gratuitous controversy continues over whether foods from plants and animals that have been genetically engineered should be labeled as ...

Is agroecology the key to feeding the world?

Lori Ann Thrupp | 
Developing alternatives to predominant systems takes time. The encouraging news is that progress is underway. Around the world, communities are ...

Lesson to India? Bangladesh got GMO approval by challenging ‘devious’ environmentalists

Vivian Fernandes | 
Bangladesh Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has set an example by politically challenging extreme environmentalists and private-enterprise-hating ideologues, which is in ...
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Genetic modification of trees faces forest of protests

Andrew Porterfield | 
Genetic modification of trees could help mitigate climate change and increase wood and paper production. But opposition to even basic ...

GMOs needed to avert global water shortages

Gwyn Morgan | 
The UN’s annual World Water Development Report, published last March, warned that unless the balance between demand and supplies is ...
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Neil Young’s new anti-GMO song confuses science on Starbucks, Monsanto

James Cooper | 
Veteran rocker Neil Young, one of the founders of Farm Aid, is releasing a new album called “The Monsanto Years,” ...
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The Case for GMOs and Sustainability

Jon Entine | 
From conventional breeding to mutagenesis, none of our foods that we eat today is the product of Nature’s way. But ...

Proposed Costa Rican GMO moratorium prompts worried letter from U.S. ambassador

The United States is expressing its concern over a proposed 15-year moratorium on the cultivation of genetically modified crops and ...
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Jackson County, Oregon GMO ban to take effect in June after federal judge ruling

A federal judge in southern Oregon on May 29 rejected a request by two alfalfa farms to block Jackson County's ban ...

Seattle Times: USDA’s GMO verification smarter than mandatory labeling

Many consumers want to know whether their food contains genetically modified ingredients, and some businesses are responding with the help of ...

Cattle breeders develop genetically superior embryos for countries with less productive cows

Abby Wendle | 
Cows, like humans, take about nine months to carry a calf to term. But in the 1970s, American cattlemen began ...
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