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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GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
Organic Consumer Association issues threat to Congressional candidates on GE labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Just when you thought the crazies over at the Organic Consumer’s Association (OCA) couldn’t ...
UK environmental secretary: We must lead the world in GE crops
The following is an edited excerpt. UK Environmental Secretary, Owen Paterson, delivered a speech about genetically engineered crops at the ...
Chipotle starts putting Scarlett letter on GE foods on its website menu
The following is an edited excerpt. Chipotle Mexican Grill recently became the first fast-food chain to label the ingredients it ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE sugar beets destroyed in southern Oregon; FBI investigating
The following is an edited excerpt. Federal investigators are asking the public to help solve middle-of-the-night crimes that left ruined ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
USDA approves Non-GMO Project’s label claims
In a first for the U.S., the Agriculture Department has approved the Non-GMO project's labels for meat and liquid egg ...
The dangers of condescension in the GM debate
The UK's Environmental Minister needs to reframe his proposed GM discussion if he wants to avoid a slow-motion train wreck ...
Pig feeding study shows how not to use statistics
The following is an edited excerpt. In the latest issue of Journal of Organic Production Systems, a long-term toxicology study ...
Rogue GE wheat is growing in 127 countries! Should consumers be concerned?
The following is an edited excerpt. After the “crisis” of glyphosate tolerant wheat being found in an Oregon field, I ...
World Food Prize goes for work on biotech crops
The following is an edited excerpt. As governments, food aid organizations and other groups are thinking big in their efforts ...
World Food Prize goes to those who made GM plants possible
The "Nobel Prize of food" has been given to three biotech pioneers -- including an executive from Monsanto ...
When the anti-GE science sucks, you can have it both ways
The following is an edited excerpt. Dear Howard Vleiger, which one is correct? You have stood by your (probably bogus) ...
Luddites are losing the battle over GM crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Most speech writers would have advised a more cautious line of attack. Most spin ...
Biotechnology must remain part of EU-US trade negotiations
Biotech crops are a sticking point in free-trade negotiations between the US and European Union ...
CNN features outrageous anti-GE views
The following is an edited excerpt. The latest frightful example of GE fear-mongering aired Monday on CNN. It was a ...
Target to remove genetically engineered ingredients from major food brand
The following is an edited excerpt. Super store giant, Target, has announced they will be adding a new brand to ...
Wheat industry will survive Oregon’s GE strain
The following is an edited excerpt. After news broke that a genetically engineered strain of wheat had been found in ...
Could genetic engineering make renewable fuel cheaper?
The following is an edited excerpt. Wood and straw are among the waste products our society produces in the greatest ...
Supreme Court ruling won’t impact agribusiness research of GE foods, law prof argues
The following is an edited excerpt. A University of Iowa law professor says the U.S. Supreme Court has given new ...
Nigeria: GE foods for sale by 2015, minister says
The following is an edited excerpt. The Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Ita Ewa, said at the weekend that ...
Maine: Backers of GE labeling unthinkingly buy conspiracy-based arguments
The following is an edited excerpt. That the Maine Legislature has determined that the bottle of canola oil I buy ...
Meet Calestous Juma, Africa’s GE crop ‘optimist’
The following is an edited excerpt. When Calestous Juma was 9 years old, floods inundated his family’s village. Port Victoria ...
Malaysia: Bioengineered crops are agriculture’s green bravura
The following is an edited excerpt. Bacillus thuringiensis (or Bt) crops and food have another name. Because they are developed ...
