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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Methane reducing genetically modified rice in development
Not all climate-change mitigation involves changing human habits. In a paper in Nature, scientists unveiled a new genetically modified rice plant ...
We should label GMOs–Not because of dangers but because they are safe
Recently the House of Representatives found itself with a surprising group of allies: scientists. The House voted to ban state requirements that ...
Journalists tour ‘belly of the beast’ Monsanto in unique journalist bootcamp
I went to a four-day journalism program on food and agriculture put on by the National Press Foundation (NPF), and the ...
To make meat greener, make it more efficiently
Meat consumption is increasing around the world as countries become wealthier. That leaves us with the practical meat question — that is, the ...
Video: Monsanto spars with Australia’s Undercurrent over glyphosate, ‘world food domination’
The Guardian hosted a scathing video on Monsanto's business practices and history by Undercurrent, an online news show. It then ...
Monsanto and ag giants ‘own’ global seed business? No. 7200 seed companies in Europe alone.
The seed market in Europe contains nearly 7,200 seed companies, totaling more than 50,000 employees and accounts for 20 percent of the ...
GMO food labeling bill opens door to political interference in science
On Thursday, July 23, the “DARK” side took a hit. By a vote of 275 to 150, the House of ...
Atlantic latest liberal publication to oppose mandatory GMO labeling
On Thursday, July 23, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban states from requiring special labels ...
Humans began farming sooner that scientists thought
When did humans first begin farming? Scientists have long thought that our prehistoric ancestors didn't start raising crops until some 12,000 ...
Bacteria genetically engineered to make indigo could make dying jeans ‘greener’
Blue jeans get their signature color from indigo, a dye. Producing that indigo releases chemicals that can pollute water and ...
EU fights ‘STOP TTIP’ activists campaign maligning US crops with YouTube videos
In early 2013, President Barack Obama's call for a U.S.-EU trade deal generated such optimism in Europe that the graffiti ...
#CRISPRfacts media debate over Wired’s hype of gene editing technique
On July 21, WIRED magazine released its August issue with a cover story on the controversial new gene-editing technique CRISPR. Under the headline “The Genesis ...
Ayyadurai’s formaldehyde-in-GMOs claim challenged, engineer refuses verification offer
Engineer and system biologist V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai claim that there are dangerous levels of formaldehyde in GMO crops is about ...
How one farmer uses GMO corn to reduce pesticides, increase sustainability
In a wide, brown field, Bret Davis opens a pocketknife with a click, kneels down and scrapes through a furrow ...
How low-quality research is used as activist propaganda
The paper published in Agricultural Sciences by Shiva Ayyadurai presents a hypothesis that transgenic soybeans are high in formaldehyde and ...
Mental health leading cause of farmer suicide in India, not indebtedness from buying GMO seeds
For over a decade, farmer suicides in India has been a serious public policy concern. More recently, this has led ...
As disease threatens Uganda’s banana crop, ActionAid and anti-GMO groups fan fears
Uganda is an emerging battle ground where anti-GMO activists try to scuttle introduction of a transgenic banana that could rescue ...
80% of Americans demand mandatory labeling of ASOs–Artificially Selected Organisms
A new petition to Whitehouse.gov demands mandatory labeling for all “artificially selected organisms” (ASOs). The petition reads: ASO plants or ...
Food and ideology don’t mix: There’s not one way to feed world
There’s an unbreachable divide between advocates of modern conventional agriculture and, essentially, everyone else, from the mainstream (organic, local, anti-GMO) ...
Hero of Neil Young’s anti-GMO doc ‘Seeding Fear’ is confessed thief
Neil Young has followed up his anti-GMO attack album with a new propaganda mini-doc about the evils of Monsanto. Now ...
Bees not dying; Europe should lift neonics ban
Brussels banned a class of pesticides to avert a ‘beepocalypse’ that wasn’t happening. Now bugs threaten crops, and farmers may ...
GMOs contain formaldehyde? Kevin Folta challenge: ‘Let’s cooperate on lab analysis’ (crickets)
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai recently published a systems biology paper in Agricultural Sciences. The report left much to be desired, and ...
Examining claims GMO cotton causing Indian suicide epidemic
One major accusation of evil on the part of GMOs and Monsanto is forcing Indian farmers into debt through expensive seed that cannot be ...
Talking Biotech: GMO rescue of American chestnut tree and genetic history of lettuce
American chestnut tree GMO revival: William Powell; DNA of lettuce: Richard Michelmore ...
Monsanto refutes claims in Neil Young’s documentary
Monsanto, a company that manufactures genetically engineered seeds for agriculture that has sparked the ire of Neil Young, has issued ...
Rice with barley genes emits less greenhouse gas
A new type of genetically modified (GM) rice might significantly lessen the impact of agriculture on the climate. The plant, ...
