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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Majority of Americans still unaware of scientific consensus on safety of GMO foods
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When Colombia ended aerial spraying of glyphosate, cultivation of cocaine crop surged
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After six straight years ...
Who is best qualified to regulate gene editing?
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Reasonable discourse exists in GMO labeling debate
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Are GMOs better solution for feeding world’s poor than shipping them West’s surplus food?
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India will listen to anti-GMO activists, but make science-based decision on GMO mustard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Moving ahead with the ...
Pro-GMO advocates capitulate to support GMO label law: Is this science’s Munich agreement?
Is the GMO labeling bill, which was just passed by both houses of Congress, a loss for advocates of biotechnology ...
Talking Biotech: NAS committee member Neal Stewart on GM crops: It’s all safe, environmentally friendly
NAS Committee member on GM crops: it's all safe, environmentally friendly, has made agriculture more efficient ...
‘Mama Monsanto’ video attempts to pass off misinformation as comedy
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Does labeling GMOs with QR scan codes make sense?
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Organic weed control methods, not just synthetic pesticides, can kill frogs in farm fields
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Myth busting: Are synthetic pesticides, used with some GMOs, more dangerous than natural ones?
Both organic and conventional farmers use pesticides, but these chemicals are rampant in nature and many natural ones are far ...
Was GMO labeling a waste of Congress’s time?
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Israeli biotech startup plans to produce lab-grown chicken meat
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An Israeli biotech startup ...
Gene-edited food already in U.S. market, not labeled as GMO
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Bayer increases bid for Monsanto
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Bayer AG has raised ...
House passes GMO labeling bill, President expected to sign it in current form
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a victory for ...
Nature: With labeling debate over, time to focus on more pressing biotech issues
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How anti-modern farming agroecology NGOs spread GMO misinformation in Africa
Europe and US-funded NGOs are spreading scare stories about GMO crops. Cornell Alliance for Science and other groups are trying ...
Herbicide resistance predates GMOs by 40 years, say weed scientists
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Patagonia’s film about sustainable food avoids discussion of GMO solutions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Outdoor gear giant Patagonia ...
Sen. Murkowski says GMO labeling bill would not mandate GMO label for salmon
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President Obama ready to sign GMO labeling bill if passed by House
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The White House plans ...
House to vote on GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The House is expected ...
Popular misconceptions about GMOs, labeling
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Are crop innovations sitting on shelf because of outdated GMO laws?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Getting a new genetically ...
Has WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) shifted from analysis to advocacy?
What is IARC? What is its relationship with the World Health Organization? Was its designation of glyphosate as 'probably carcinogenic' ...
