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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Will a non-browing GM apple irreparably hurt the fruit’s image?
The non-browning Arctic Apple should appeal to consumers and food service companies, but will this benefit also make the GM ...
Agriculture scientists support approving GM Arctic Apple but face resistance
An apple genetically engineered not to turn brown is putting the Agriculture Department and the apple industry on the spot ...
Developing world food crisis: Can hungry countries afford to say ‘no’ to GM crops?
In many countries GM crops are not accepted because they are thought to be unsafe for both human health and ...
GMO labeling push will propel certified organic market
The struggle over GMO labeling will push the growth of certified organic products in the US in 2014, according to ...
Sustainability rethink needed: GM farming promotes dangerous ‘externalities’
In the last 20 years, the development of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) for the agriculture industry has resulted in a ...
How anti-GMO activists sell India ‘suicide seeds’ narrative
Over the past decade, the story of hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers being driven to suicide because of the failure of ...
10 reasons why anti-GMO and anti-vaccination movement are alike
The anti-GMO movements and anti-vaccination movements are probably two of the biggest and most well known pseudoscience movements out there, ...
Could mapped citrus greening genome save the Florida orange?
A University of Florida researcher has mapped the DNA genome of a new strain of citrus greening, which could help ...
GM halo effect: Can GM crops protect conventional and organic farming?
GM papaya in Hawaii is one of numerous examples of the so-called "halo effect"-- the sustainable benefits conferred on organic ...
Why I’m still skeptical of GMOs
Over the weekend, listservs, blogs, and Twitter feeds lit up with reactions to Amy Harmon's New York Times deep dive into the politics ...
Why Ghana needs crop biotechnology
Ghana is at the cross roads, debating the introduction of genetically modified crops (commonly referred to as GM crops) into ...
U.S. food industry giants fire preemptive strike, seek federal GMO law
Giants of the U.S. food industry, who have spent millions fighting state GMO initiatives, are taking a page from their ...
Bt cotton attracting young farmers in India
Contrary to the perception that youngsters are abandoning farming, Bt cotton technology has attracted young farmers to cotton farming in the country, ...
GM salmon could double world production, if ‘Frankenfish’ fears don’t halt progress
A new type of Atlantic salmon, engineered by biotech firm AquaBounty Technologies, could double world production of the fish. But ...
Angry mob more frightening than GMOs
The Frankenstein metaphor that opponents of genetically modified food use to promote their fears is more apt than they realize ...
UK minister: Europe risks becoming ‘Museum of World Farming’ if it votes no on GM corn
Britain's farm minister called on the European Union to approve a strain of genetically modified maize in a vote later ...
Frankenpolitics: The Left defense of GMOs
The global movement against genetic modification, it is fair to say, does in general spring from the green left side ...
GMO labeling advocates gearing up for several state initiatives, national legislation in 2014
GMO labeling advocates are preparing initiatives in Oregon, Colorado and Arizona for the 2014 elections. After recent losses in California ...
Lessons learned from the Séralini affair
Last year a group of French scientists led by Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini reported in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology ...
‘Jumping genes’ may explain why coffee bean boring beetles are so destructive
Tiny beetles that bore into coffee beans to lay their eggs and do $500 million of damage annually to coffee ...
GMOs key for future, according to China’s ‘father of hybrid rice’
Yuan Longping, the “father of hybrid rice,” recently spoke about his ongoing research into genetically modified food production, calling the ...
GM plants could yield same amount of omega-3s as fish
British researchers say they've been able to genetically modify a biofuel crop to produce components of fish oils beneficial for ...
Most Americans pay little attention to GMOs
A national survey shows that most Americans pay little attention to the debate over genetically modified foods, despite extensive media ...
Overcoming the stigma surrounding GMOs
In August, at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, a group of activists vandalized test fields of so-called ...
US bioeconomy 2.5% of GDP, and booming
The bioeconomy continues to emerge as a significant component of the U.S. economy. Domestic revenues from genetically modified systems are ...
Food, genes and the feeling of risk
Riffing off of breaking news about General Mills announcent that it had dumped GMOs from its iconic Cheerios, Andrew Revkin ...
New Hampshire debates GMO labeling: Restaurant nightmare will jump costs and prices
A bill before the New Hampshire House of Representatives — HB 660 — will make it harder for struggling families ...
