Agricultural Regs & Ethics
EPA to place restrictions on glyphosate due to weeds developing resistance
U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world's most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of ...
Breaking news from The Onion: Monsanto’s latest GMO crop strain yields record amount of litigation
Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto unveiled its latest strain of genetically modified corn Wednesday, claiming that the new, hardier seed yields ...
Better face for GMOs: Drought resistance and resistance to ‘superpest’
Much of the current criticism of GMOs rests on the currently-available varieties, dominated by RoundUp Ready (herbicide-resistant) and Bt (pesticide-producing) ...
How biotech is revolutionizing personalized medicine
Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has completed a remarkable ...
Sustainability proponents talk GMOs, health, superweeds and patents
As the legal frenzy makes clear, genetic engineering elicits extreme reactions. It’s decried as humanity’s final untethering from the natural ...
Organic-funded anti-GMO group calls for investigation of whether USDA covered up dangers
A "watchdog" organization is calling on the U.S. Senate and House agriculture committees and the inspector general at the USDA ...
Geneticist Pamela Ronald: GMOs pave way for sustainable food
When it comes to the earth’s dwindling resources, climbing temperatures and burgeoning population, talk is as plentiful as it is ...
Bananas, monoculture and biotech solution: No, Michael Pollan, GMOs do not limit genetic diversity
The Panama disease ravished Cavendish banana is a cautionary tale of the vulnerabilities of monoculture crops. Can biotechnology play a ...
ActionAid in Africa ensnared by its own ugly GMO cancer scare tactics
Although the UK based NGO is scrambling to distance itself from its fear efforts in Uganda, GLP's African contributing writer ...
International gene bank holds key to new bean variety for warmer climate
As the planet warms, time is running out to develop new cultivars that can cope with the heat. Luckily, scientists ...
Russian activists upset government allows GMO food sales despite cultivation ban
Three activists carrying a refrigerator to set up on the street to attract attention to problems faced by the country's ...
Australian GM farmer fighting ‘contamination’ appeal says he received no financial backing from Monsanto
A landmark GM contamination now unfolding in the supreme court of Western Australia has for now swung in favour of an organic ...
Success of independently funded GMO papaya confounds anti-tech ideologues
Hawaii’s Big Island has banned or severely limited the farming of genetically engineered (GE or GM) crops, including a papaya ...
IARC scientist defends his finding that glyphosate is likely carcinogenic
A World Health Organization group's controversial finding that the world's most popular herbicide "probably is carcinogenic to humans" was based ...
Anti-GMO activists leverage glyphosate cancer reclassification to resurrect discredited claims
The WHO reclassification of glyphosate that's paired with herbicide resistant GM crops has led to a swirl of claims that ...
House Republicans propose voluntary non-GMO food label
Inspired by the popular “USDA organic” label, House Republicans are proposing a new government certification for foods free of genetically ...
Vietnam approves GM corn as animal feed to reduce dependence on imports
Vietnamese farmers nationwide are now able to plant three varieties of genetically-modified (GM) corn from the Swiss firm Syngenta, according ...
In wake of Owen Paterson rebuke of anti-GMO ‘Green Blob’, advocates and opponents play tug-of-war over Africa
Owen Paterson's recent speech on the green lobby's role in blocking GMOs in Africa stirred some strong responses from both ...
‘Neonics not key driver of bee deaths’–USDA study clashes with White House considering restrictions on pesticide
Even as a special White House created task force is poised any day now to address concerns over supposedly vanishing ...
What happens when Big Data meets Big Ag?
Big Data is the 'next new thing' in agriculture. It's captured the imagination of investors and has resulted in dramatic ...
So Roundup “probably” causes cancer. This means what, exactly?
The World Health Organization just classified glyphosate — the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup — as a probable carcinogen. Don’t forget ...
Nature: IARC glyphosate cancer classification linked to animal studies, no evidence of human threat
The cancer-research arm of the World Health Organization last week announced that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used herbicide, is ...
DNA reveals history of European languages, farming, migration
Europe is famously tesselated, with different cultural and language groups clustering in different regions. But how did they all get ...
‘Stop farmers from being a science experiment; Get glyphosate off the market’
The issues surrounding G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when ...
GMOs—Good option for climate friendly farming
Shahriyar Smith's guest opinion ("Clean fuels plan would drive GMO expansion in Oregon," March 8) misleads in a number of ways ...
ActionAid spreads fear of GMOs in Uganda with pictures of rats with tumors
Donors to one of Britain’s largest humanitarian aid charities have been unwittingly funding an aggressive anti-GM food campaign in Africa ...
Monsanto escalates attack on decision classifying glyphosate as ‘probably carcinogen’
Today, Monsanto Company further addressed last week’s assessment on glyphosate by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). “We ...
