Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Australian organics board reaffirms zero tolerance for GMOs
The group responsible for setting organic standards has rejected an application by the Western Australian Agriculture Department to allow a ...
Syngenta expects Chinese to OK GM corn embroiled in lawsuits
Syngenta AG expects to win Chinese government approval soon for imports of a type of genetically modified corn at the ...
Are African farmers in danger of becoming slaves to patented seeds?
GMO debate is sometimes a proxy for questions about corporate control of agriculture, particularly in Africa. As in most cases, ...
Nicaraguan enviro activists say GMOs would not alleviate drought crisis
A severe four-month drought during this year's “wet” season in Nicaragua hit agricultural production in two-thirds of the country’s 153 municipalities ...
Raw organic milk implicated in death of Australian child
Mountain View Organic are a food marketing company with high flown rhetoric about 'kind farming and good health practices". Mountain ...
Golden rice will not solve malnutrition or biodiversity loss
Golden rice is a product of genetically modified technology that is offered as a solution to vitamin D deficiency for ...
Response to Union of Concerned Scientists: Fears about Arctic apple are misleading
As a consumer and as an agricultural scientist, I’m looking forward to the introduction of the Arctic® apple, which is nearing ...
Are organic farms more drought resistant?
The supposed productivity gaps between organic and conventional farming may be a lot smaller than thought, according to a new analysis ...
Bee-gate: European IUCN task force mired in corruption scandal over neonics ban plot
The European-based IUCN Taskforce on Systemic Pesticides consists of activist scientists that exploit the weaknesses in the peer review process, ...
Study claims agroecology closes organic yield deficit with conventional farming
The more scientists actually study agroecology, the better it looks. The largest meta-analysis to date comparing yields of organic and ...
Proponents of organic diet craze reject GMOs, swear by health benefits
Over the past several years, the organic food craze has definitely grown. But some people feel that genetically modified foods ...
We can feed the world without chopping down more forests
Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population — cutting down forests, plowing prairies ...
Evolution of Food Babe: From misguided consumer advocate to crude bully
It's been a rough week for the Food Babe. After her takedown by NPR, Vani Hari has begun lashing out ...
Ontario farmers claim they are ‘bullied’ by proposed neonics ban
In November, the Ontario premier’s office and the ministry of the environment and climate change revealed its plan to restrict the ...
Big Data shows value for farmers and industry
Who knew that the specific crossover of agriculture and big data was such a big deal? Everyone from Mother Jones ...
GMO yeast: One solution to omega-3 decline in salmon
When it comes to omega-3s, the message is clear: All salmon is a good choice. But that might soon change ...
Global Risks of Rejecting Agricultural Biotechnology
With the demand for food expected to double by 2050, biotechnology can lead to increased food security, as well as ...
Fish-farmed genetically modified salmon could help alleviate overexploited wild fisheries
Seafood remains one of the last types of foods that we harvest from the wild at a commercial level, and ...
Personal genomics and gene editing revolutions beg for global regulatory rethink
The scientific impact of personalized genome editing is easy to imagine: Designer babies, lab grown meat and the end of ...
Dung factor: Why organic farming yields can never match conventional farming
In the last year or so the claim that organic farming methods can feed the world has come up several ...
Kenya’s maize famine underscores need for Africa to confront GMO fears
Kenya could lose a third of its maize crop to a lethal virus. Is it time that Kenya and Africa ...
Two organic dairies yank support from lawsuit against GMO labeling
New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm and California’s Clover Stornetta Farms, two organic dairy producers, have withdrawn from a trade group seeking to ...
Silence from Bill Nye to Kevin Folta GMO debate challenge
Some of you might recall the open letter from Kevin Folta, a University of Florida plant scientist, inviting ["The Science Guy," Bill ...
Can GMO technology sustainably rescue threatened Florida oranges, tomatoes and papayas?
Biotech breeding innovations are desperately needed in Florida, where the humid climate creates ideal conditions for disease-causing bacteria and fungi ...
Kauai authorizes $100,000 GMO pesticide health study
The state Department of Agriculture and Kauai County are paying a consultant $100,000 to examine the possible health and environmental ...
Reflections on the Great Biotech Debate: Dissecting the arguments
Intelligence Squared, an organization that organizes public debates across the globe, holds them in traditional Oxford debating style which pits one team ...
Glyphosate used with GMO crops under attack for disrupting microbiome: Science or a gut feeling?
Despite professional science and health organizations such as the American Medical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...
