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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American Farm Bureau reinforces opposition to mandatory GMO labeling
The scientific consensus supporting GMO food production is overwhelming. It shows no signs of flagging. So it’s more than a ...
Judge hears suit in Hawaii over claims of GMO crop dust blown on residences
There are southwest Kauai residents who can't enjoy simple things in their homes, such as just sitting on a couch ...
EU to streamline GMO import process, opening possible clearance of 19 products
The EU plans to simplify the import approval process for controversial genetically modified foods and animal feed, allowing member states ...
Northern European hunter-gatherers resisted agricultural revolution
Crops and livestock have been a part of the human experience for thousands of years. But, for some of our ...
Activists at “alternative Nobel Prize’ declare ‘GMOs are false miracles’
Food safety is this year’s theme for World Health Day, an annual health awareness day held each April 7 and ...
County ballot measure in Oregon would limit university GMO research in crops, cancer, bioenergy
Shawn Mehlenbacher, the Oregon State University hazelnut breeder who developed varieties resistant to deadly Eastern Filbert Blight, says a Benton ...
Germany considers GMO ban despite endorsement of GM crops by Germany’s scientists
Germany’s national academy of sciences has strongly endorsed genetically modified (GM) crops as the Bundestag – Germany’s lower house of ...
Researchers across food, fuel, drug industries seek standards for synthetic biology
Synthetic biologists have a vision. Researchers in this young field, who build ‘devices’ from engineered genes and other molecular components, ...
Second battle over GMOs: Will Europe regulate gene edited crops as GM products?
The U.S. plant-breeding company Cibus is proudly rolling out its first crop created with an innovative precision gene-editing technology: herbicide-tolerant ...
Svalbard Global Seed Vault guards mankind’s food supply in case of crop apocalypse
On the Svalbard island of Spitsbergen, one of the remotest places on Earth, mostly covered with ice and hundreds of ...
Science Babe vs. Food Babe: Debunking Vani Hari’s overuse of word ‘toxin’
Vani Hari, AKA the Food Babe, has amassed a loyal following in her Food Babe Army. The recent subject of ...
More voices of farm moms needed in GMO conversation
U.S. farmers make up approximately 1.5 percent of the population. They are the most credible source of information about production details, the ...
Food fraud: Detective tests food for presence of GMOs, pesticides and more
Mansour Samadpour makes his way through the supermarket like a detective working a crime scene, slow, watchful, up one aisle ...
Journal ‘pollution’ contributes to mistrust of science, GMOs
The scientific community is facing a 'pollution problem' in academic publishing, one that poses a serious threat to the "trustworthiness, ...
Fears of GMO baby formula drive moms to buy contaminated breast milk online
Shoes, groceries, furniture, plane tickets—we’re used to being able to buy pretty much whatever we want online. If a pair ...
Audio interview: Zimbabwean regulatory official lauds multiple uses of GMOs in health, agriculture
National Biotechnology Authority registrar and chief executive officer Jonathan Mufandaedza spoke to NewsDay at the regional biotechnology training workshop at ...
Organic sales have plateaued following rapid growth
According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, total organic product sales by farms and ranches in the U.S. have increased ...
Watch scientist challenge the scare-promoting Food Babe
Food Babe has built her career on denigrating scientists, farmers and food experts. Then she encountered Alison Bernstein, aka Mommy ...
Precision breeding tailors genome for fresher flowers
A pot of pretty petunias will practically sell itself, but petunias don’t retain their beauty for long. A joint Israeli-American ...
GMOs have health benefits not health risks
GM apples and potatoes were recently approved in the U.S. and Canada, but with some pushback from companies due to ...
Kevin Folta sets example on how to have civil conversation on GMOs
Dr. Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, recently came to lecture ...
Argentine farmers accuse Monsanto of power play over GMO royalties
Argentine farmers, who have been confronting the government over export duties since 2008, are accusing the local branch of agribusiness ...
Would GMO labeling cause $500 increase in grocery bill?
A study by Cornell University Professor William Lesser found that if GMO labeling is required in New York, a family of ...
Infographic: Are Europeans more opposed to GMOs than North Americans?
What do Europeans really think about GMOs? Are they as skeptical of the technology as is the European political establishment ...
Political right not alone in scientific illiteracy: Left disregards science on GMOs, vaccines
It is tremendously ironic that the political left, which frequently attacks the right’s denial of evolution, is much more likely ...
Scientific American: Why trumped up glyphosate controversy obscures benefits of GM technology
It’s been awhile since I’ve written on GMOs, but it may be time to start again. Recently, a huge amount ...
