Agricultural Regs & Ethics
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Is Round-up in the air a health danger? (Answer: No)
Last week the anti-biotech websites exploded with the news: “Roundup Weedkiller Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples, Gov ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
GMO Q&A with an Illinois farmer
A seventh generation farmer answers readers questions about GMOs Are GMOs safe? Yes. The World Health Association, the Food & ...
Monsanto develops hardier strain of corn that yields 4 times normal litigation (LOL)
Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto unveiled its latest strain of genetically modified corn Wednesday, claiming that the new, hardier seed yields ...
Biology Fortified profile: Do GMOs and sustainability go together?
Started on Halloween of 2008, Biofortified.org pooled together the work of various scientists who were frustrated by the environmental movement’s entire approach ...
India approves GMO trials for broader array of crops
India's environment minister, M. Veerappa Moily, on Thursday said that the ministry has approved confined field trials of genetically modified ...
Are GMO crops sustainable? Bullets fly over environmentalist Jon Foley’s controversial essay
“Against my better judgment, I’m dipping my toe into the genetically modified organism debate," wrote University of Minnesota environmentalist Jon ...
Video: Feelings, Facts, Food and GMOs
Andrew Revkin led a Google Hangout discussion with Shelley Boris, a chef committed to conscientious cuisine and author of “Fresh ...
Can farmers reduce toxic agricultural chemicals by tricking pests with pheromone-producing biotech plants?
Pesticides are necessary evil in farming, and are likely to remain so. But what if we could replace some of ...
Maui citizens group pushes for GMO moratorium
Come November, the citizens of Maui County could be voting on a temporary suspension of all genetically modified crop production ...
How should Congress and the FDA respond to calls to label foods with GMOs?
According to Henry Miller, a physician and the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA, and Drew ...
Video: Mark Lynas says, “GMOs are green”
Mark Lynas, a UK-based environmentalist and former anti-biotech activist, spoke to Real Agriculture editor Lyndsey Smith before giving the keynote address at ...
USDA report says GM crops show mix of benefits, concerns
After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, ...
I said Syngenta wasn’t listening to farmers about GMO corn—Maybe I was wrong
Syngenta took exception to a couple of issues that raised on this site and responded to the question on if ...
The promise of GMOs evaluated: Herbicides
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
European scientists on African mission to break biotech logjam
Africa is expected to be the next target of GM food companies, as European scientists and policymakers travel to Ethiopia ...
How GMOs saved my life
GMOs weren’t personal until I almost died. After one ambulance ride and three days of wearing a heart monitor with ...
Streamlined oversight could open the door to GM crops in India
M.S. Swaminathan, a geneticists known as the Father of the Green Revolution in India, outlines in his op-ed today for ...
DNA screening helps find the best guide dogs
Researchers in Hokkaido have developed a way to test slight differences in the DNA of young dogs to screen their ...
Agricultural scientist Steve Savage: Am I A “Shill For Big Ag?
Because I blog, speak, and comment in support of various agricultural technologies, I am routinely accused of being a "shill ...
He said/She said: Are GMO “secrets” just inconvenient truths?
Well know activist-author Robyn O'Brien's recent post on the Huffington Post's Food for Thought blog, slams GMOs in nine points ...
Evaluating competing claims about genetically modified crops
The arguments for and against GMOs began at the technology's inception, in the 1980s, and have changed little since. But ...
Genetically altered barley could boost Scotland’s whisky industry
Scientists are planning genetically to alter barley in a bid to boost Scotland’s whisky industry. Barley is a key ingredient ...
Sorry Greenpeace, Golden Rice is a win for nutrition and health
Greenpeace’s stand on golden rice is rather cynical and their article in support of their position offers bad science. It ...
Dr. Oz again takes on the GMO controversy again—Science or myth?
Celebrity talk show host Dr. Oz has a complicated and controversial relationship with GMOs—demonstrated again with his latest foray into ...
