Crops & Food
We eat to live. Humans use approximately 11% of Earth’s land for the cultivation of crops for food, but also for clothing, medicine and biofuels. Globally, major crops include sugarcane, pumpkin, maize (corn), wheat, rice, cassava, soybeans, hay, potatoes and cotton.
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Bt cotton helped Indian farmers, but success not uniform
Cotton is a light and breathable fabric but it sure does get itself into some very contentious debates. It has been a central ...
Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson says ‘chill out’ to activists: GMOs perfectly safe
Beloved Cosmos host Neil deGrasse Tyson emphatically defends GMO foods in a recently unearthed old video, sparking responses all over ...
Politics alert: Is Obama Administration holding up approval process for AquaBounty GM salmon?
The mood at AquaBounty Technologies a year ago was buoyant. Regulators had released a draft assessment of the company’s genetically ...
Safeway shareholders reject GMO labeling, garners only 10 percent support
Shareholders at Safeway have rejected a proposal from the Green Century Equity Fund calling for mandatory GMO labeling on its ...
Vermont raised over $160,000 in private donations to defend GMO labeling law
Vermont has raised more than $160,000 in private donations to help defend what would be the nation's first GMO labeling ...
‘Big Oil’ can’t ‘buy’ science organizations on climate change, neither can Monsanto on GMOs
Would you eat a plant that makes its own toxic pesticides, contains DNA from viruses and bacteria, sports genes that ...
Boston Globe joins other liberal publications in opposing mandatory GMO labeling
The push for GMO labeling has been the most successful in New England states so far, but now, the region's ...
China insists on GMO-free corn exports from U.S.
U.S. corn supplies will be even bigger next year if China keeps import curbs on a genetically modified variety of ...
Africa losing opportunities to reduce poverty because of ‘dysfunctional’ GM debate
Opportunities to enhance crop yields and reduce poverty in Africa are being lost because of a “polarised public debate” on ...
India should not rush to decide on GM crops without rational public debate
The public debates on GM began with the unannounced entry of Bt cotton in Gujarat, where the farmers had grown 21,000 acres ...
Food industry spent $9 million lobbying against GMO labeling laws in first quarter
The food industry spent $9 million lobbying Congress to oppose laws requiring labeling for genetically modified products in the first ...
Indian government delays approved GM crop field trials following pressure
The Centre has put on hold field trials of genetically-modified (GM) crops following pressure from the Swadeshi Jagaran Manch (SJM) ...
GM corn no longer resistant to tropical pests in Brazil
Genetically modified corn seeds are no longer protecting Brazilian farmers from voracious tropical bugs, increasing costs as producers turn to ...
Label this: Anti-GMO activists’ stance posing ‘actual threat’ to public health
This spring, Vermont passed a law requiring any food that includes genetically engineered ingredients - otherwise known as "GMOs" for ...
What’s it’s like to be on NaturalNews’ Mike Adams’ ‘kill list’
Name a wacky conspiracy theory (chemtrails, anti-vax, 9/11 trutherism) or a quack cure (juicing, homeopathy, metabolic therapy), and Mike Adams ...
‘All hell will break loose’ for Molokai if proposed GMO ban on Maui passes
If you’re looking for an entertaining way to spend your day, a trip to hear testimony given to the Maui ...
NaturalNews’ Mike Adams’ genocidal views on GMOs mainstream among environmental activists
NaturalNews founder and editor Mike Adams is known for his extremist views on GMOs, the latest being his threats to ...
Latest Chinese restriction on GM corn ‘de facto embargo’ for U.S. grain exports
The biggest U.S. grain export association called on China on Thursday to rescind its latest restriction of a GMO corn strain, saying ...
Chinese researchers edit genes to make fungal-resistant wheat
Advanced genome-editing techniques have been used to create a strain of wheat resistant to a destructive fungal pathogen—called powdery mildew—that ...
Term ‘genetic modification’ loaded with baggage, undermining rational debate
With food security firmly on the international agenda, there's a growing appetite to look again at the opportunities promised by ...
Anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva has long history of rejecting science
Vandana Shiva is a chain reaction that cannot be stopped. It can only be witnessed from a safe distance. The ...
Shouldn’t anti-GMO activists be known as ‘Whole Food shills’?
Until recently, I was only vaguely aware that empty accusations of shilling were used as arguments in sensible lines of ...
GM critic says biotech proponents perpetuate African dependency and poverty
The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s PovertyMatters Blog on ...
Can we regulate gene editing without killing it?
CRISPR and other gene-editing methods, plus gene drives, are suddenly here and now. They offer unprecedented possibilities for genetic modification ...
Sweet corn roadside taste-off: Customers learned, sampled and chose GE over conventional
GM foods are disparaged by some critics because they allegedly promote 'industrial agriculture,' such as growing grains for animals or ...
Digital gumshoe uncovers story of Mike Adams’-created MonsantoCollaborators ‘kill list’ of GMO supporters
NaturalNews' Mike Adams has denied links to website MonsantoCollaborators.org containing 'hit list' of journalists, scientists and publications that cover GMOs, ...
FBI turns up heat on Mike Adams as ‘Health Ranger’ fiasco widens, plus Adams’ archive
Mike Adams, who advocates the murder of those who believe GM technology can play a constructive role in food and ...
