Agricultural Regs & Ethics

The Arctic apple is the creation of Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a eight-­person company in Canada that scrimped and saved over ...

Mary-Dell Chilton pioneered the field of genetic engineering in agriculture. She has spent most of her decades-long career working for Syngenta, ...

The leading cause of life-altering disability in India is health risks linked to poor diets--which rice engineered to produce vitamin ...

Say the words “green revolution,” and people take sides. ... As polarizing ideas go, though, the green revolution’s got nothing on ...

Thousands of people across the world have joined together in a global movement, protesting against American biotech giant Monsanto. Activists ...

The Luddites’ fable of disaster, of a fall from grace, smacks more of wishful thinking than of digging through archives ...

A central canon of GMO critics is the belief that transgenics--transferring genes from one species to another--represents a 'crime against ...

A proposed ban on biotech crops in Oregon’s Benton County has failed by a strong margin. Nearly 73 percent of ...

Swedish writer trained in biology had embraced organic food and farming for years as a safer and healthier alternative to ...

'I used to work for Monsanto. I got to help people better understand a technology that I think holds immense ...

Just what exactly is Monsanto playing at? Apparently not satisfied with its continuing role as the favourite pantomime villain for ...

Researchers report creating genetically engineered yeast strains that take us one step closer to producing opiates using microbes. How did ...

The GMO debate takes us to Oregon where one county is set to vote on banning GMOs. But it could ...

Organic farms act as a refuge for wild plants, offsetting the loss of biodiversity on conventional farms, a study suggests ...

Confounding many scientists, the public remains skeptical of GM foods yet embraces biotech medicines. Why the difference? What can we ...

Monsanto’s unsolicited courtship of Swiss rival Syngenta AG has the potential to do many things for the agriculture giant. But could ...

Mother knows best—even if Mom is a plant. A common flowering plant, Arabidopsis, hands down “memories” of recent temperatures to ...

A little-known but publicly traded organic food processing company, SunOpta, has persuaded the federal government that its system for detecting ...

I'm pleased to see more people making the connections between our food choices, our health, and our impact on the ...

The Agriculture Department has developed the first government certification and labeling for foods that are free of genetically modified ingredients ...

Dear readers. As you know by the last post I am doing a tour to promote "Eat Without Fear" by ...

Once an industrial-chemical titan, GMO seed giant Monsanto has rebranded itself as a "sustainable agriculture company." That rhetoric may have ...

It took decades of painstaking work, but research geneticist Ram Singh managed to cross a popular soybean variety ("Dwight" Glycine ...

The cassava, a key African staple especially valued because of its drought tolerance, is threatened by numerous viruses. Conventional agriculture ...

More than two out of five American honeybee colonies died in the past year, and surprisingly the worst die-off was ...

If the National Crime Records Bureau of India (NCRB) data is to be taken seriously, on an average over 15,000 ...

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