Agricultural Regs & Ethics
“The GMO Deception”: Jumble of cut-and-paste misinformation
Except for an occasional new piece, or a pre-section wrapper, the material in this tome is mostly cut-and-paste from the ...
Ben & Jerry’s dilemma: Should the concern be GMOs or artery clogging treats?
Ben & Jerry's has taken the lead among self-proclaimed 'socially responsible' firms in criticizing GMOs and attempting to remove any ...
Unfounded fears about GMO crops stunts China advancement
Mark Lynas, journalist and environmentalist, says unfounded fears about genetically modified crops prevent China from making full use of science ...
Center for Food Safety on how to trash a healthier eco-friendly potato—It’s a GMO!
Cooking potatoes (and many foods) causes the Maillard reaction, an interaction of sugars and amino acids perhaps most familiar in ...
After Kevin Folta challenge, South Florida Science Center invites real scientist to GMO debate
The chair of the University of Florida Horticultural Studies Department publicly called out the South Florida Science Center for sponsoring ...
Keith Kloor’s Discover: Will Bill Nye agree to debate Kevin Folta on GMOs?
At Discover blogger Keith Kloor's invitation, University of Florida plant geneticist Kevin Folta wrote an open letter to Bill Nye ...
David Ropeik views Nassim Taleb’s odd views on GMOs through a precautionary lens
David Ropeik, an internationally respected expert on risk, has been going head-to-head with 'black swan' proponent Nassim Taleb over Taleb's ...
Food Babe flops on BRCA mutations: Understand genetics or go home
Charlatans like Food Babe, Dr. Oz, Joseph Mercola, and Vandana Shiva represent everything disgraceful about unscientific propaganda. Cancer misinformation is ...
Will Maui and Molokai’s GMO ban hold up in court?
Voters in Maui County approved an initiative that will put a moratorium on the planting of all genetically engineered seeds ...
Organic fed animals no healtheir than GMO fed ones, but gain price premium
Megan Brown sells beef from grass-fed cows, but the Butte County rancher’s choice is motivated more by the higher price ...
Organic alert: Whole Foods almonds contain potentially ‘fatal’ natural chemical
Whole Foods is recalling a line of Organic Raw Almonds, due to elevated levels of a natural chemical, hydrogen cyanide, ...
GLP’s Jon Entine talks to Ray Bowman on fallout from Oregon, Colorado GMO label votes
What's next in the battle over GMO labeling? Ray Bowman talks with GLP's Jon Entine on his Food and Farm ...
Anti-GMO activist scientist publishes book questioning GMO safety, sustainability
Are genetically engineered foods safe? Truth is, we probably don't know. "The scientific debate is not resolved, even though many ...
McDonald’s mulling embrace of Simplot’s bruise-reducing Innate GMO potato
A healthier, ecologically advanced GMO potato has been cleared, touching off theatrics of opposition by advocacy groups. The success of ...
Pamela Ronald: Why GMOs are crucial in an era of global warming
Virginia Gewin, a writer with Beacon Journal, spoke with Pamela Ronald, a rice geneticist at the University of California at ...
Food challenges require overhaul of global food system not GMOs
Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform the world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Humans ...
Could genetics convert food crops to perennials, revolutionizing farming?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s a cycle nearly ...
Battered by multiple defeats, GMO label backers vow to continue
Oregon and Colorado became the third and fourth liberal states in the West to reject a GMO labeling measure. A similar ...
GMO farmers guilty until proven innocent: Monsanto to challenge Maui crop ban
A ban on the growing of GMO crops by Maui County voters by a scant 1077 votes—less than .5 percent of the total—will ...
Organic farming best to address world hunger
This op-ed was written by Anne Lappe, a writer and anti-GMO activist. Her current project, Food MythBusters is a collaborative ...
GMO meta-study: Pesticide use down 37%, yields up 22%, profits rise 68%
A meta-study published this week in PLOS ONE—A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops--crunched data from 147 studies ...
Maui voters approve moratorium on GMO crops, court fight looms
With almost all votes counted, Maui voters appear to have approved an initiative that bans GMO cultivation in Maui County. The still ...
Cameroon on path to introduce GMO Bt cotton
Cameroon is poised to become the tenth country to grow GMO cotton--a cotton variety modified to express the natural insecticide, the bacterium ...
Open letter: Slow to adopt GM crops, Europe becoming ag backwater
More than twenty of Europe's most prominent scientists issued a joint letter making the case for embracing crop biotechnology--or face ...
3 billion malnourished Asians ask Greenpeace: Why deny us vitamin enhanced rice?
Many GMO opponents are targeting the development of Golden Rice--a variation on the Asian staple enhanced with Vitamin A that ...
Indian NGO leader: Don’t lift Indian moratorium on Bt eggplant and other GM crops
The Indian government is currently debating whether to life an 18-month freeze on trials of 13 genetically modified food crops, including the ...
100 percent boost in tomato yields with new genetic toolkit
Tomatoes are some of the most genetically modified foods in history. What were tiny, strangely-shaped fruits the size of a ...
