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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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 ...
Opponents of GMOs might learn from the disastrous legacy of Soviet era Lysenkoism
Opponents of GM foods no doubt believe they stand on the side of science, but independent evidence suggest they are ...
Genetically modifying yeast for new flavors in beer
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Researchers are toying with ...
In New Zealand, dramatic public shift in favor of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. From 2001 to 2014 ...
Philippine Supreme Court blocks field testing of GMO Bt eggplant
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Supreme Court [Philippines] ...
Chipotle’s troubles raise doubts about ‘fresh and local’ strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The E. coli outbreak ...
Jackson County, Oregon GMO alfalfa ban will stand
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A proposed settlement has ...
Putin wants to establish Russia as world organic capitol
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an address to ...
How to restore soil health and fight climate change
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We think of climate ...
Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity? Not really
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “Monsanto on trial for ...
Pakistan opens door to GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The plant breeders rights ...
Unable to sell GMO corn at home, Chinese biotech firm looks to US market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Chinese biotech seed ...
Chipotle’s poisoned food crisis spreads, infects Boston College basketball team
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At least half of ...
Anti-GMO, organic movement exploit ‘sancti-mommy’ scare strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The idea that GMOs, ...
As demand for beef grows, China faces choice between imported or cloned cows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Remember when eating sustainably meant ...
Study: Crop biotechnology essential to feeding more people on same arable land
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . .Looking at ...
Soil degradation reducing arable land, biotechnology may be part of solution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The world has lost ...
California: Consumers can sue over products falsely labeled organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Federal law does not ...
Farmed GMO salmon key to survival of endangered wild salmon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Like many other recreational ...
GMOs critical for Australia to expand agri-food exports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If Australia wants to make ...
‘SmartLabels’ not good enough for GMO critics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Proponents of mandatory GMO ...
Chicago Tribune report claims EPA approved Dow 2,4-D herbicide after changing safety estimate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For use on its ...
Finnish research shows ‘no immediate impact’ of neonicotinoids on bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this press release to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Research conducted in Finland ...
Controversial scientist Goulson challenged on study claiming neonicotinoids cause butterfly declines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. University of Sussex biology ...
Using CRISPR to edit crops ensures no transgenes, undercuts key anti-GMO ‘foreign gene’ criticism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this press release to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A team of scientists ...
Beta carotene-fortified potatoes paving way for biofortified African cassava
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The humble potato has ...
Dizzying definitions: Consumers tell FDA what ‘natural’ food means to them
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The FDA will have ...
