Agriculture & 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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Progressive political commentator: Jill Stein’s anti-science views extend to GMOs
Green Party pandering for media attention has begun to take a more dangerous turn as Stein winks at dangerous conspiracy ...
EU’s new glyphosate restrictions enforced differently throughout Europe
Glyphosate use in parks and public spaces in the UK is likely to be little affected by a recent EU ...
Poll suggests US shoppers unlikely at first to widely use QR code for GMO information
Most consumers likely wouldn't use scannable codes to find out if food they're buying contains genetically modified ingredients, a new poll says. Forty ...
Big Data romances Big Ag: The future of precision agriculture may be in drones
At first glance, Silicon Valley and the vast cornfields of the U.S. Midwest may appear to have little in common ...
‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’ back, as Facebook lifts block: Neidenbach on home planting of GMOs
What happens if you grow GMO crops in your home garden? ...
View from the farm: Labeling GMOs, discouraging rBGH use put emotion over science
The corn, soybeans and tobacco look pretty good on the home farm, but it’s been an otherwise bad summer for ...
Human selection has narrowed apple varieties to a pitiful few
About 7,500 commercial apple producers in 36 states harvest 48,000 tons of fruit, second in production only to China. The ...
Rogue GMO wheat in Washington State? Latest anti-GMO attempt to pump scare fizzles
Unnecessary anti-GMO panic highlights bankruptcy of current crop agricultural regulatory system ...
GMO law forces small food companies to make tough decisions about labels, ingredients
A new law that requires food makers to label the packaging of any products that contain genetically modified ingredients has ...
Video: Implications of Brexit on glyphosate regulation in U.K.
Tom Heap reports on the use of Glyphosate, a herbicide used for crops, where an ever-growing call to ban it, ...
FDA struggles to define what ‘natural,’ ‘healthy’ mean in food labeling
The FDA. . . is changing its definition of what "healthy" actually means—and are still trying to figure out a definition ...
Video: Has anti-GMO movement become anti-science?
The anti-GMO movement is very popular. The 'mob' mentality has forced the sentiment into borderline threatening, especially where the GMO ...
Is precautionary principle in pesticide, GMO regulation making EU import dependent?
The EU’s use of the precautionary principle on agricultural technologies is a bad, broken compass. How far lost are we? ...
Editorial: Allowing imports of GMOs, but banning cultivation in Bolivia is ‘nonsense’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: This excerpt ...
Talking Biotech: University of Kentucky’s Michael Goodin on GMOs saving coffee crop from a killer virus
University of Kentucky's Michael Goodin on GMO technology saving coffee crop from viral threat ...
Vermont to push for ‘on package’ GMO labeling in regulatory, not legal, arena
[On Aug. 3]Â Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell formally announced that the state will no longer enforce its month-old GMO ...
US wheat exporters expect little disruption in sales after GMO wheat found in WA state
The U.S. Wheat Associates is hopeful there will be no business lost and only minor trade delays after a Washington ...
Would greenhouse gas emissions increase dramaticaly if GMOs banned?
What would the impact be of a global ban on GMO foods? That’s exactly the question Wally Tyner, a professor ...
Which is riskier–Pesticides or chemical free, disease free CRISPR gene-edited crops?
Ultimately, whether we use CRISPR in agriculture comes down to a handful of questions: Which is better, controlling plant diseases ...
Boycotting companies that backed GMO labeling compromise is hypocritical
Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association lobbying group, has released a letter citing Gandhi. In it he described Gandhi leading ...
Federal GMO labeling may not go into effect for 3 years
Here are three other things to expect from the federal GMO labeling program. 1. Compliance is up to three years ...
Global trade treaties on firing line: Cartagena Protocol, relic of earlier era promoting GMO fears
The Cartagena Protocol, started with the best intentions, may be out of date ...
Science communicators condemn Facebook’s censorship of pro-science “We Love GMOs and Vaccines”
Anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists--many of them are the same--have manipulated Facebook to shut down a pro science site, stirring sharp ...
Can food makers label GMO products with pride?
. . . . [T]he maker of Soylent, doubled down on its pro–GMO stance with the blog post “Proudly Made With ...
Nigerian farmers accuse anti-GMO activists of misinforming public
The Nigerian farmers under the aegis of All Farmers Association of Nigeria (AFAN) have chided the anti-biotechnology campaigners in the ...
Monsanto explains why new GMO soybeans were released before dicamba formulation approved
When serious drift issues began popping up around the Mid-South in late June, dicamba immediately became the prime suspect. The ...
Growing expatriate population driving demand for non-GMO products in China
Technavio analysts forecast the non-genetically modified organism (GMO) food market in China to grow at a CAGR of 20.49% during the forecast period, ...
