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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Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen pesticide food list designed to promote organics
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Scannable GMO labels could provide information regarding sustainability, pesticide use
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Popular misconceptions about GMOs, labeling
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Are crop innovations sitting on shelf because of outdated GMO laws?
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VT law made GMO labeling inevitable, Senate version is reasonable compromise
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House likely to vote on GMO labeling bill before July 15 recess
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How scientists can use celebrity culture to engage public
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Is Congress’s GMO labeling bill full of PR headaches for biotech industry?
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Scientist develop ‘biofortified’ canola seed for production of oil with heart-healthy fats
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Polarization on GMOs prevents Chile from adopting consistent, reasonable regulations
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Anti-GMO movement began more than 30 years ago with Jeremy Rifkin
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Environmental Working Group does not support Senate’s GMO labeling bill
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Vermont not victim of GMO ‘pollution,’ as organic activist claims
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Vermont’s GMO labeling law doesn’t apply to lucrative cheese industry
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GMO labeling law makes kosher food harder to find in Vermont
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Failure to consider GMO’s effects on society, environment impede crop’s success
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Putting GMOs in context of addressing world hunger improves public’s acceptance of them
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Scientists failure to understand GMO opposition hindering technology’s progress
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Is press largely responsible for public perception of biotechnology?
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Effects of Vermont’s GMO labeling law seen on store shelves
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How will GMOs be labeled if Senate’s bill becomes law?
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Could tobacco soon fuel jets by tweaking crop’s genetics?
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Senate passes GMO labeling bill
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Survey shows VT’s GMO labels mislead consumers, affect purchasing decisions
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African farmer: Europe vote blocks GMOs and modern farming, dooming us to food subsistence
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Scotts Miracle-Gro glyphosate-resistant GMO grass utilizes less fertilizers, grows twice as fast
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Fear, confusion block acceptance of potentially life saving GMO goat milk
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