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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Fate of GMO mustard in India unclear: Project could lose over 50% of funding
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organisation funding the ...
Will combining ‘microbials’ and biotech be next big thing in agriculture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When the word “biotech” ...
Myth busting: Why Agent Orange has nothing do to with GMOs and the herbicide 2,4-D
By spreading misinformation about the herbicide 2,4-D, which IARC says is less hazardous than glyphosate, anti-GMO activists seek to deny ...
Herbicide mixtures effective, but non-herbicide solutions necessary to combat evolution of weed resistance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In my last post, I ...
Regulatory breakthrough in Europe? Sweden says some gene edited plants not GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. CRISPR-Cas9 is a technique ...
American Academy of Pediatrics: ‘Antibiotics in animal feed endanger kids’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Overuse of antibiotics in ...
Justice department cracking down on self-regulated nutritional supplements industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USPlabs, which made the ...
Activists response to diseased African bananas: Don’t embrace GMO solution
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Zen Honeycutt is the ...
Anti-GMO NGOs petition Obama, FDA to toughen regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environment and food safety ...
“Hybridization is not genetic modification” — And other scientifically suspect anti-GMO sayings
Life forms have been genetically modified, for billions of years by nature, and then for the last 11,000 years, in ...
Chinese state-owned firm acquisition of Syngenta could escalate country’s GMO development
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A successful bid by ...
Lawsuit to block commercialization of GMOs in Ghana dismissed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An Accra Fast Track ...
Western diet, loss of gut microbial diversity may lead to chronic diseases
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists suspect our intestinal ...
Union of Concerned Scientists: ‘USDA does not invest sufficiently in agroecology’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our entrenched industrial agriculture system has ...
Malaysia poised to become pioneer in agricultural biotech crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Malaysia is the pioneer ...
Risk song: Many things can harm you (but glyphosate is not one of them)
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this video to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What have we learned from ...
Videos: GMOs pro and con at American College of Nutrition
The GLP aggregated and excerpted these videos to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. These two lectures on the ...
Western Australia expected to lift restrictions on new GM crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Legislation to repeal the Genetically ...
GMOs made using Agrobacterium, RNAi use natural processes, not ‘Frankenstein’ technologies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over 90 percent of ...
USDA, EPA butt heads on honey bee and pesticide initiative, highlighting lobbying conflicts
The fight over pollinator policy between the USDA and FDA has escalated, with honey bee health and the future of ...
Anti-GMO activists shut down high school biology program in Germany
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. HannoverGEN was an optional ...
Phenomenol success of Bt cotton in India makes case for GMOs in developing world
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. How has the cotton ...
European Food Safety Authority rejects WHO’s IARC conclusion that glyphosate is carcinogenic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. EFSA and the EU ...
Girl Scouts reject activist demands for GMO-free cookies, side with science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This coming February, when ...
Non-browning Arctic apples could open door to consumer acceptance of GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On a cloudless September morning, ...
GMO crops can’t help poor in developing world unless socioeconomic, political contexts considered
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The majority of GM crops are ...
