Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Fox News embarrasses itself as urologist, medical professor opine (wrongly) about GMOs
If you think you’re getting accurate science from Fox News’ Sunday Housecall, you may want to think again. A segment they ...
Unraveling mystery of obsessive-compulsive disorder: A personal journey
This daily ordeal, among other irrational behaviors I suffered, was physically and emotionally exhausting, yet it wouldn't subside until I ...
Where’s the beef (and fat)? Are you ready for a juicy ‘test tube’ burger?
Lab created beef offers the possibility of ending the breeding of livestock for slaughter--and the ability to produce in vitro ...
Big Ag uses social media to twist GMO debate
Many consumers and food activists use social media platforms to stay informed and engage in important debates about the future ...
OMG! GMO! In Froot Loops! Reason for concern, but not about cereal
GMO Free USA has mounted a boycott against food companies for harmless trace levels of chemicals found in some of ...
Can color-changing flowers help change minds of GMO skeptics?
Nikolai Braun and Keira Havens, the two entrepreneurial scientists behind the Fort Collins, Colorado-based company Revolution Bioengineering, are in pursuit of ...
Organic agriculture’s low yields aren’t sustainable
The United Nations has estimated that food production will need to nearly double from 2008 levels by the year 2050 to ...
What did the real paleo diet look like?
Reconstructions of human evolution are prone to simple, overly-tidy scenarios. Our ancestors, for example, stood on two legs to look ...
Confession of liberal, organic food consumer-scientist: ‘I support GMOs’
I love organic food. My “significant other” cooks and eats only organic and I love her food. My confession: I ...
GMO seeds boost corn yields more than 40%
Throughout human history, as the world's population has grown, so, too, has the amount of arable land converted into farmland ...
GM ryegrass for cows that could boost milk production 15% faces opposition in Australia
Daily farmers in Victoria Australia are debating the pros and cons of genetically modified (GM) ryegrass as peak representative group, United ...
Survey of European attitudes on GMO milk suggests opposition softening
Public perceptions about genetically modified (GM) food products is shifting from wariness to a more positive attitude as I discovered ...
Producers of 70% of Africa’s food, women farmers shackled by GMO opponents
As a farmer in Ghana, I see the problems in farming every day. Farmers struggle with everything from the unpredictability of ...
Mother Jones’s missed opportunity to reverse GMO safety consensus denialism
A year ago, Mother Jones published a balanced report on crop biotechnology, embracing the global consensus that GMOs are safe--a ...
In wake of new EU GMO restrictions, Wales proposes further tightening
On January 13, the European Union (EU) voted in favour of amending legislation in Europe that will allow Member States ...
Is there gap in federal regulation of newer GMOs?
Critics say a loophole in federal regulations for genetically engineered crops will backfire against biotech companies. Under current rules, USDA ...
USDA grants approval of nonbrowning Arctic apple
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Healthy Inspection Service (APHIS) announced its decision to deregulate the first ...
Zero tolerance policies on GMO “contamination” hurt organic and conventional farmers alike
Neighboring organic farmers and GMO farmers struggle to coexist amid fears of gene flow through cross pollination. Yet agricultural scientists ...
Truth about small farmers: They can’t make a living
I wondered how many small farmers, like myself, actually made a living. I looked into national statistics. Only the largest ...
China jumpstarts GM, worries about ‘foreign domination’
China does not want its genetically modified food (GM) market to be dominated by foreign products (and thus foreign companies) ...
So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how
Over the past six months I’ve been trying to figure out how we can feed ourselves sustainably and equitably without ...
Food sovereignty group sues Ghanian government over GM crop trials
Civil Society Group, Food Sovereignty Ghana has sued Government at the Human Rights Court, seeking an interim injunction on the ...
China plans to scale up cultivation of homegrown potatoes, likely investing in genetic tech
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture started the year with an awkwardly named but nevertheless resonating event — at the "Potato ...
No climate benefit to biofuel crops
Nearly all of the studies that have been used to promote the deployment of biofuels over the past two decades ...
Mimicking Climategate, anti-GMO activists fund legal attack on biotech academics
US Right to Know, funded mostly by organic activists, is using the Freedom of Information Act to target scientists it ...
Rethinking “pro-GMO” and “anti-GMO” labels
Journalists and commentators often use the terms "anti-GMO" and "pro-GMO" as shorthand to guide the reader through ideological thickets. But ...
The Original Frankenfoods: Origins of Our Fear of Genetic Engineering
The anti-GMO community has gotten a lot of propaganda mileage out of demonizing GM crops as Frankenstein's creation. GLP guest ...
