Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Anti-GMO groups obsess about superweeds, the non-existent glyphosate-created pest
"Superweeds" is a term bandied about by Consumer Reports, the Union of Concerned Scientists and other anti-GMO groups as a ...
Cultural brokers—environmental groups, prominent journalists—shape public discourse on GMOs
A Zurich-based think tank asks: “Who is influencing the way we think today? Whose ideas are determining ours?” To answer that ...
GMOs could save banana industry but could consumers accept it?
The international banana industry only has itself to blame for its vulnerability to panama disease, and faces annihilation if the ...
GMO acreage increases globally, especially among small farmers
Farmers are growing substantially the number of acres they plant of genetically modified crops, reveal new figures by the International ...
GENeS launches: New project provides journalists, NGOs, policy analysts scientific expertise on breaking stories
Journalists and policymakers take note: GENeS--Genetic Expert News Service--is now live! Turn to GENeS for independent expert analysis and commentary ...
Inside look at Monsanto’s Hawaii farm nursery
Spring is here and that means pretty soon farmers across the nation will be pulling equipment out of the shed ...
Malpractice on Dr. Oz: Case of the maligned Arctic Apple
Dr. Oz gets it wrong again on science, this time on genetic engineering on last week's show on the non-browning ...
US biotech regulations need serious weeding
The “corporate culture” at USDA toward the regulation of genetically engineered plants is unscientific, self-interested and inimical to progress in ...
Genebanks house 30 bean varieties that beat the heat of global warming
Amidst fears that global warming could zap a vital source of protein that has sustained humans for centuries, bean breeders ...
American Farm Bureau reinforces opposition to mandatory GMO labeling
The scientific consensus supporting GMO food production is overwhelming. It shows no signs of flagging. So it’s more than a ...
Judge hears suit in Hawaii over claims of GMO crop dust blown on residences
There are southwest Kauai residents who can't enjoy simple things in their homes, such as just sitting on a couch ...
Northern European hunter-gatherers resisted agricultural revolution
Crops and livestock have been a part of the human experience for thousands of years. But, for some of our ...
European science academy links neonics to harm of many beneficial insects, not just bees
An influential European scientific body said on Wednesday that a group of pesticides believed to contribute to mass deaths of ...
Svalbard Global Seed Vault guards mankind’s food supply in case of crop apocalypse
On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ice and hundreds of ...
Activists at “alternative Nobel Prize’ declare ‘GMOs are false miracles’
Food safety is this year’s theme for World Health Day, an annual health awareness day held each April 7 and ...
County ballot measure in Oregon would limit university GMO research in crops, cancer, bioenergy
Shawn Mehlenbacher, the Oregon State University hazelnut breeder who developed varieties resistant to deadly Eastern Filbert Blight, says a Benton ...
Germany considers GMO ban despite endorsement of GM crops by Germany’s scientists
Germany’s national academy of sciences has strongly endorsed genetically modified (GM) crops as the Bundestag – Germany’s lower house of ...
More voices of farm moms needed in GMO conversation
U.S. farmers make up approximately 1.5 percent of the population. They are the most credible source of information about production details, the ...
Audio interview: Zimbabwean regulatory official lauds multiple uses of GMOs in health, agriculture
National Biotechnology Authority registrar and chief executive officer Jonathan Mufandaedza spoke to NewsDay at the regional biotechnology training workshop at ...
Infographic: Are Europeans more opposed to GMOs than North Americans?
What do Europeans really think about GMOs? Are they as skeptical of the technology as is the European political establishment ...
Organic sales have plateaued following rapid growth
According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, total organic product sales by farms and ranches in the U.S. have increased ...
Argentine farmers accuse Monsanto of power play over GMO royalties
Argentine farmers, who have been confronting the government over export duties since 2008, are accusing the local branch of agribusiness ...
Watch scientist challenge the scare-promoting Food Babe
Food Babe has built her career on denigrating scientists, farmers and food experts. Then she encountered Alison Bernstein, aka Mommy ...
Smear campaign against glyphosate: ‘Consumers have a right to know when they’re being peddled a lie’
The anti-biotech activist Gary Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farms CEO and recent White House nominee to a trade advisory committee, seems to ...
FBI: Chinese accused of stealing patented GMO seeds are national security threat
Does protecting America's lucrative genetically modified seed corn industry warrant the use of national security laws intended to fight terrorists ...
Anti-GMO groups lobby fast food restaurants to not sell GM apple or potato
Consumer advocacy groups are asking Burger King, Wendy’s, Subway and Dunkin' Donuts for commitments not to sell the genetically engineered ...
Jeffrey Smith: ‘I know nothing about GMOs but that doesn’t stop me from promoting junk science’
Jeffrey Smith, head of one-man band and rabidly anti-GMO organization Institute for Responsible Technology, has taken aim at two respected ...
