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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U.S. Right to Know rated #1 in junk science for 2015
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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Debates rage over what ...
Opposition to GMOs is about corporations, not technology
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Vilsack will attempt to hash out GMO labeling before VT law takes effect in July
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Hershey opts out of sugar from GE beets citing consumer demand for non-GMO products
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Recapping the 2015 GMO debate: Science eclipses ‘Dark’ voices of anti-biotech hysteria
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Australian, New Zealand food regulators soon to decide if gene-edited crops are GMOs
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House of Lords says UK has ‘moral duty’ to test disease-preventing GMO insects, enraging opponents
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Gatorade jumps on organic marketing bandwagon
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Did 2015 mark start of ‘transparency paradigm shift’ for Big Food?
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Séralini feed contamination study: PLOS under fire for not following own guidelines on data access
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Omnibus spending bill does not include GMO labeling, blocks sale of GM salmon
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Nobel laureate Sir Richard John Roberts: ‘Opposition to GMOs by greens appalling’
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