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Viewpoint: Conventional, organic farming advocates should stop fighting and focus on feeding world’s growing population
For years, discussions about the future of the agricultural industry have converged on the arbitrary yet consequential date of 2050, ...
‘Better safe than sorry’? Precautionary thinking stokes unjustified fear of GMOs, chemicals, biologist says
“Better safe than sorry.” That’s a great lesson for a child when a parent explains why she should wear a ...
The promise of genetic engineering in medicine could be threatened by ‘bad press’
Because the disorder is caused by a single mutation in a single gene, sickle cell disease has long been seen ...
African biotech group to critics: Where’s evidence GMOs are dangerous?
Mr Enoch Ilori, the Project Officer for Open Forum on Agricultural Biotechnology in Africa (OFAB), has said there is no ...
Podcast: Anthony Warner, ‘The Angry Chef,’ debunks fad diets and popular food ‘pseudoscience’
Anthony Warner is known as The Angry Chef, achieving notoriety for critically analyzing the social movements that pop up around ...
Uganda’s GMO bill could become law without President’s assent
After more than a decade of deliberations, a bill that governs the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Uganda ...
Lab-grown, plant-based meats raise thorny ethical questions about animal welfare, sustainability
Meatless Monday. “Vegetable-forward” restaurants. Plant-based diets. Foregoing meat is more mainstream than ever before, and at the center of this ...
Pseudo-science alert: For $9,500, Politico provides disinformation about crop biotechnology, GMOs and pesticides
When Politico strays from politics into agricultural biotech, its naiveté and lack of science expertise shows through ...
Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador mulled endorsing anti-GMO campaign in exchange for contributions, violating UCS’ ethics policy
In a response to anti-GMO campaigners requesting endorsement, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) promised to look into it in ...
Viewpoint: Agroecology is a ‘dead end’ for African farmers trying to achieve food security
For the past 50 years, Daisy Namusoke has grown crops on her small plot of land in the Buikwe District ...
Organic companies drop ‘anti-establishment tilt,’ partner with global corporations to meet surging ‘natural’ food demand
Big Food and the organics industry are gaining an appetite for each other. With sales of conventional packaged staples lagging, ...
Booming sales suggest non-browning Arctic apple could be breakthrough product, overcoming anti-GMO fears
Jack Bobo doesn’t hold back when talking about the Arctic Apple. He believes the non-browning apple could change how people ...
Organic producers battle over food labeling standards as industry nears $50 billion in sales
As organic food shifts from utopian movement to lucrative industry, a war is being waged for its soul. Record organic ...
Viewpoint: While Kind Bar debunks ‘healthy’ organic sugar claim, it promotes equally deceptive non-GMO labels
Dear Kind Bar: [On March 6] you delighted people in the agriculture and science communities. Clif Bar tried to shame ...
How are anti-GMO groups influencing German school science curriculum?
Since 2010, the genetic engineering information service Genetic Engineering has been offering teaching materials and teaching suggestions to teachers and secondary ...
African farmers want GMO seeds to help weather climate change
It’s an old proverb in these lands that since man has learned to shoot without missing, birds have learned to ...
Viewpoint: We can’t ignore scientific evidence about male, female brain differences
It's obvious to just about anyone who is paying attention — and to most biologists, in particular — that there ...
Tomorrow’s scientists developing CRISPR-edited crops to boost sustainable farming
Three graduate students highlight their efforts to breed disease-resistant crops and teach science to consumers ...
Using genetics and social media to find answers for rare ‘undiagnosed’ diseases
Having a strange and little-known condition is increasingly becoming a regular part of life, bonding patients together with a common ...
Whispering down the ‘fake news’ lane targeting conventional farming: No, Lou Gehrig’s Disease not caused by pesticides spread by chemical-spraying airplanes
Is it sensationalism to get traffic, lazy reporting -- or intentional misrepresentation of facts? ...
Oxford zoologists: Insect decline studies could erode confidence in science if not held to rigorous standards
Global rates of insect decline will be very hard to measure. Conclusions regarding drivers and rates of declines can be ...
Research integrity, and why bad science in biomedicine and agriculture has become such a problem
Science depends on corroboration — that is, researchers verify others’ results, often making incremental advances as they do so. The ...
Video: How we fool ourselves into fearing our food—and how to stop
Pesticides, chemicals, cancer - the world is a scary place and our dinner plate even more so. Or so it ...
Buy local; save the bees; avoid GMOs: Americans’ top food-related causes
For companies to successfully fulfill [consumer demand for transparency], they need to be in tune to what causes and concerns ...
Viewpoint: Clif Bar is ‘concern trolling’ competition with its organic food propaganda
Clif Bar published an open letter [March 6] to their “largest competitor” in the New York Times. The letter asks ...
USDA bioengineered labeling rules reignite GMO transparency debate
Farm groups and food companies are pleased with a new United States labeling law governing genetically modified organisms, but non-GMO ...
FDA, USDA announce formal agreement to tag team lab-grown meat regulation
Two government agencies will team up to regulate the emerging market of lab-grown meat, the Trump administration announced [March 7]. The Food ...
