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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Philippine’s ban on GMO eggplant a defeat for science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. THE DECISION by the ...
European researchers in limbo waiting for EU’s decision on whether CRISPR plants are GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant geneticist Stefan Jansson ...
Chipotle in ‘fiasco vortex’ after multiple food safety problems
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . For at ...
Myth busting: There is no such thing as GMO sugar
Advocacy groups that encourage consumers to avoid sugar derived from GE sugar beets target small, farmer-owned businesses ...
Decisions about neonicotinoids should be ‘science-driven not ‘activist-driven’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Neonicotinoid pesticide use is ...
Scientists have discovered wheat gene that provides resistance to fungal diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists have sequenced and ...
Gene edited crops present PR challenge, innovation opportunity
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recent advances in the ...
‘GMO wheat’? They’re already eating it in Europe– They call it ‘organic’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Here’s my summary of ...
Has GMO Bt cotton been a “disaster” for India, as Vandana Shiva claims?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Private seed firms in ...
Orthorexia nervosa: Do anti-GMO activists and shoppers have it?
Orthorexia nervosa is being evaluated as a possible psychiatric diagnosis -- which is causing symptoms of anxiety among some elites ...
Monsanto CEO: GMO debate doesn’t need to be ‘either/or’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has become a ...
Video: Cornell Prof Peter Davies on how to evaluate evidence for and against GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this video to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Peter Davies, a plant ...
Farmer generation gap? Father and son split on use of herbicides to control weeds
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Father [Bach Bakehouse] and ...
Politics of GMOs in India: Bt cotton vs. Bt brinjal
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We must begin with ...
Food safety scientist predicted Chipotle’s E. coli outbreak 8 years ago
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dr. Douglas Powell saw ...
Anti-GMO movement as ‘faith-based, fanatical’ ideology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Mexican pro-GMO group ...
Will banana crisis force more rational consideration of GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Washington Post recently reported on ...
Food Industry pushes to include GMO labeling ban in year end spending bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Food companies are mounting ...
Thai scientist argues country ready for GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Standing in the frontline of ...
CRISPR crops could help solve hunger, climate change challenges if they avoid PR mistakes of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Newsweek pointed out ...
Anti-GMO movement ‘on shaky ground’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Liberal foodies are on ...
After repeated health code violations, Seattle Chipotle restaurant closed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Seattle health officials closed ...
How anti-GMO activists use monarch butterflies as ideological pawn
The anti-GMO movement blames GMOs on the decline of the monarch butterfly, but the problem is more complicated--the result of ...
Mommy Food War: Not all organic moms are ‘sancti-mommies’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Jenny Splitter’s ultimate premise in ...
Gene-edited pigs resistant to deadly virus may be ‘game-changer’ for pork producers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the Porcine Reproductive ...
Time for genetically modified organic grown food?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farmers really do ...
Surging Non-GMO sales have organic industry in a panic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Natural-foods makers have spent ...
