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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Attempted thefts of GM seeds reflect obstacles to innovation in China
The court documents read like something out of a Coen brothers film. Employees of the Chinese agricultural company Dabeinong Technology ...
Field trials for 21 new varieties of GM crops, including rice and wheat, approved in India
The new government has approved field trials for 21 new varieties of genetically modified (GM) crops, including staples such as ...
Liberal fundraising giant MoveOn.org doubles Vermont’s fund for GMO labeling law
Liberal fundraising giant MoveOn.org raised more than $50,000 for Vermont's Food Fight Fund, designed by lawmakers this year to help ...
Considering safety of GMOs, labels should inform, not prompt alarm
Vermont recently joined two other New England states and passed a law to require labels on food that contains genetically ...
Will GM wheat be accepted if killer fungus wipes out global wheat supplies?
For bread fans everywhere—and millions of the world's most impoverished people—the debate over genetically modified crops just got trickier. A ...
Study claiming organic food more nutritious ‘deeply flawed’, say independent scientists
Are organic foods better for you? A new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition appears to indicate so ...
“Parallel science” of NGO advocacy groups: How post-modernism encourages pseudo-science
Political ecologists—commentators in the media and among NGO advocacy groups—like science...when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather ...
Mexican farmers reject GM beans
Bean grower Manuel Alvarado is part of the majority of producers in Mexico who consider it unnecessary to introduce genetically ...
Video: Monsanto moving away from GMOs to crossbreeding
Agriculture giant Monsanto is spending significant money and resources to create 'new' all-natural vegetables and fruits through crossbreeding techniques. Cue ...
Cannabis Genome Project will discover medical mysteries of marijuana
Cannabis Genome Project plans to develop a fine-grained map of cannabis genes, involving two of the main strains of cannabis, ...
Irish celebrity chef protests new EU-US trade deal over GM foods
Top chef Kevin Thornton has expressed his concerns over a new EU-US trade deal that could open the door to ...
Proponents and opponents of GMO labeling step up efforts in Colorado
Proponents of a proposed ballot initiative that would require labeling of genetically modified foods are nearing the end of their ...
Molokai voters have most to lose but least to say in Maui’s proposed GMO ban
Samson Kaahanui wakes up every weekday on the Hoolehua homestead, pulls on a neon long-sleeved shirt and goes to work ...
Poorest have most to gain from GMOs, hurt most by GMO scare-mongering
The Grocery Manufacturers Association brought a lawsuit in response to Vermont becoming the first state to require GMO labeling regardless ...
Organic Consumers Fund makes second $100,000 donation to Oregon’s GMO labeling measure
A group called the Organic Consumers Fund has made a second $100,000 contribution to Oregon GMO Right to Know, the political action committee behind ...
Going non-GMO often means returning to less environmentally friendly food production system
When consumers think about GMOs, they tend to contrast them with “some hypothetical alternative food that is pristine”, when in ...
Video: Congressional panel concludes labeling would stoke GMO fears
It's pretty rare that members of Congress and all the witnesses they've called will declare out loud that Americans are ...
Zambian municipality destroys over 1000 lbs of cereals with GMOs
The Livingstone City Council swung into action seizing and destroying cereals from Shoprite Supermarket containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Livingstone City Council Chief Health Inspector ...
Scientists call to lift Kenyan GMO ban, claim it affects HIV-Aids patients who need nutrition
A group of scientists from public universities and research centres has faulted the government for banning genetically modified foods. The scientists ...
Popular Science debunks 10 GMO myths
Amid the ongoing controversy over genetically modified organisms and the debate over labeling them, science magazine Popular Science joins in ...
Wealthy foreign NGOs block GMOs in India, hinder progress to food security
Six foreign NGOs based in wealthy countries, many of which themselves permit such innovations, have thus far succeeded in blocking ...
Video: ‘Real’ vegan cheese to be available courtesy of new GE yeast
Oakland biohackers are manufacturing the first-ever vegan cheese product made from genetically modified yeast ...
GMOs are not meaningful ‘category’ of foods or ingredients
Even after two decades of stunning scientific, humanitarian and financial successes and an admirable record of safety, the application of genetic engineering ...
Iowa consumers care more about taste, price, nutrition, safety than organic or GMOs in food
Iowans care about where their food is grown, whether it's organic, made with high-fructose syrup or without GMOs, a new ...
Stewardship program essential for new GM herbicide-resistant crops to be effective
On June 30 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed a 60-day comment period on its proposed decision to register ...
Oregon’s GMO task force gets few answers from federal GMO regulators
An Oregon task force studying genetically modified crops and food grilled federal regulators at its meeting Thursday, but didn’t get a lot ...
South Africa to review GMO labeling regulations over ‘loophole’
Local food companies had been hiding large amounts of genetically modified organism (GMO) content behind the “may contain GMOs” label, ...
