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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Wheat aphid infestations in South Australia reignite debate over GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The discovery of the ...
BBC debate: Are Monsanto, Big Ag taking over the world’s seed supply?
Do corporations, like Monsanto, control too much of our food supply, seeds, and farming technology? ...
How anti-GMO activists blocked South American disease resistant papaya
In 2000, Venezuela was developing a disease resistant papaya, but activists threatened scientists and spread disinformation and the project was ...
Herbicide glyphosate facing ban in Europe? Here’s a backgrounder
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's hard to find ...
Why we should be concerned that WHO’s IARC reversed course on coffee’s carcinogenicity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organization’s ...
Fortune’s video quiz on Monsanto: Separating truth from fiction
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto is perhaps the ...
Fruit and vegetable industry feeling heat of anti-GMO attacks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Clif Bar Family ...
Bad karma hits leading anti-GMO companies–Whole Foods, Clif Bar, Chipotle?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [T]here are three companies ...
Sleuthing bacteria DNA in food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Personal injury litigation over ...
Talking Biotech: University of Florida’s Jude Grosser fights citrus greening with non-GMO solution
Fear of biotechnology spurs research on non-GMO solution to fight Florida's diseased citrus crops ...
Federal court weighs appeals of overturned GMO bans in Hawaii counties
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fight over regulating ...
How worldviews translate into attitudes towards GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Studies of how our ...
Sen. Stabenow will propose new, compromise GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) ...
GMO canola, cotton increased profit, reduced pesticide use by Australian farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Australian farmers produced an ...
India’s proposed GMO trait licensing rules ‘will hurt Indian seed industry, farmers’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . . On ...
Anti-GMO groups criticize Nigeria’s permits for GMO cotton, maize
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Federal Government will ...
Biotech opponents claim Monsanto ‘controls’ the world food supply? What are the facts?
Is there truth to a common anti-GMO narrative that large multi-national companies seek to “control the food supply” through patents ...
Ex-Friends of the Earth activist: GMO debate needs to remove ‘absolute opinions’ against biotech
A former activist for an anti-GMO group likens movement to debate on nuclear energy. Says conversations shouldn't start with facts, ...
Farmers switch to organic corn makes economic sense even though yield lags
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Hippies and anti-GMO zealots ...
Non-browning GMO varieties can improve post-storage quality of produce like apples, potatoes
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I recently toured several ...
Azerbaijan prohibits use, import of GMO tea, grain
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Azerbaijan is set to ...
FDA says Whole Foods not adequately responsive to listeria, dripping pipes at MA facility
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Food and Drug ...
Kenya moves closer to legalizing GMO crops with drought-resistant GMO corn trial
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Kenyan ...
Mandatory GMO labeling bill introduced in Canadian Parliament
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An MP has tabled ...
Scientists aim to genetically tweak photosynthesis in rice, increase yield by 50%
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. C4 photosynthesis is so ...
On USDA decisions to allow CRISPR-edited crops to forego additional regulation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The first CRISPR-edited crops ...
GMO rice strain yields more, requires less fertilizer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A strain of genetically ...
