Agricultural Regs & Ethics
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 ...
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 ...
Response to US-Right to Know: ‘Scientists live by evidence not PR’
The most hilarious part about US-RTK is that they are so clueless on science that they'll actually print the stuff ...
Australian farm group advocates lifting of GMO ban
Leading Australian advocates for genetically modified (GM) crops have called for State moratoriums on the science to be dissolved. AusBiotech hosted ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...