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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Avoid ‘failed’ GM crop approach to combat ‘superweeds’
Donnelle Eller's eye-opening article on glyphosate-resistant Superweeds details a real threat to Iowa agriculture and raises important questions about responsibility and ...
How GM foods are determined safe to eat in Australia
Foods produced using gene technology are prohibited from sale in Australia and New Zealand unless they have undergone strenuous pre-market ...
Audio: Ray Bowman interviews Bruce Chassy and GLP’s Jon Entine on republished Seralini GMO study
Appearing on Ray Bowman's Food and Farm radio show, GLP's Jon Entine and professor emeritus of food science and human ...
Proposed Maui GMO ban would shut farms, spike unemployment, cost millions
Hawaii’s rising movement against genetically modified farming has seen successes in Kauai County and Hawaii County, but the latest proposal ...
New generation of eco-friendly, more healthful genetically modified crops
Most of us who are advocates for sustainable agriculture have a negative view of GMO’s, and with good reason – they ...
Oppostion to GM crops counter-productive to environment, economy and consumer
The news that Britain could soon grow genetically modified crops commercially is a victory for commonsense over irrational opportunism, and ...
Campaign launched to discredit Bill Gates backed vitamin A-enriched GMO banana
The latest nonsense emanating from the Anti camp is this from our friends at GMOFreeUSA: “GMO proponents claim that they ...
Cornell scientist says GMO label would encourage consumers to eat less processed foods
In the short term, the produce industry would probably benefit from legislation requiring foods containing GMOs be labeled as such, ...
New life for Seralini’s GM corn toxicity study but raw data still no where to be seen
A controversial 2012 paper on the effects of genetically modified (GM) maize and the herbicide glyphosate on tumour growth in rats – ...
Herbicide-resistant crops can exacerbate ‘superweeds’ but new GM versions can help control problem
The growing problem of herbicide-resistant weeds has weed scientists and regulators pushing for more solutions to tackle the problem, including ...
Hollywood actress Zoe Lister-Jones to star in anti-GMO movie
Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, the couple behind the 2012 comedy Lola Versus, are in production on their follow-up, a ...
Who’s responsible for regulating GM food in Australia?
With the advent of crop genetic engineering in the 1980s, public controversy and intense public scrutiny over genetically modified (GM) ...
Biotechnology is not dangerous, but profit-hungry corporations’ controlling it is
Since giving my support to the May 24 march against Monsanto, I have taken the time to review some of the more ...
Saskatchewan 4th-generation wheat farmer calls for access to biotechnology
I’m a fourth-generation wheat farmer in Saskatchewan—and one of my longterm goals is to make sure the fifth generation on my ...
Larry King’s celebrity “experts” on GMOs were just uninformed consumers
Ensuring Skype worked properly sent my anxiety levels through the roof, even more so than facing off with Larry King ...
Polling in GMO debate fails to capture meaningful insight into public perception
Several of my colleagues recently conducted a survey in Key West, FL, where the Mosquito Control Board has proposed the ...
Science ‘court’ to rule on ‘facts’ in contentious GMO debate
When the assessment of scientific facts becomes distorted with emotion as in the heated GMO debate, we may need to ...
Zimbabwe would gain from engaging in debate, rather than seeking GM food ban
Food, politics and health have once again come together in a media-friendly cocktail. Two thought-pieces with opposing views on Genetically ...
Republication of Séralini GM corn study does not sway critical scientists
A controversial paper linking genetically modified maize to the development of tumours in rats, which was published in 2012 and ...
Inconclusive results of republished Séralini GM corn toxicity study warrant further research
In 2012, a study was released that seemed at first glance to justify every anti-GMO advocate's worst fears: eating genetically ...
Major flaws remain unaddressed in republished Séralini GM corn toxicity study
A couple of years back a French research study (known as the Séralini.study after its primary author) claimed that rats ...
Examining Environmental Sciences Europe, journal that republished Séralini study
Following the publication of a retracted study claiming that genetically modified corn and the herbicide glyphosate causes tumors in rats, ...
Costco scares consumers about GM, yet most of its products contain GMOs
Last week, just days after I wrote a very critical article skewering Whole Foods for lying to all of its customers about ...
Education of public about GM food should begin with chefs
Most high-profile chefs - or at least the ones on TV that have influenced whole generations of 'foodies' - are ...
‘Science speaks for itself’: Séralini rat study on GM corn toxicity republished
GMOSeralini.org welcomes the news of the republication of the chronic toxicity study on the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup and a commercialized genetically modified ...
Republished retracted Séralini GMO corn rat study faces harsh criticism from scientists
The new Séralini rat corn study looks a lot like the old retracted one. According to independent scientists who have ...
