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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Monsanto settles GMO wheat lawsuit in seven states
Monsanto Co. announced the settlement of another string of lawsuits related to the 2013 discovery of genetically modified wheat found ...
Activist claims ‘Big Ag’ promotes GMOs, subverting food system
Companies like Monsanto hope that casting doubt on the GMO labeling debate will cause us to get caught up in ...
German politicians agree on GMO ban, but argue over regional or national framework
Agriculture Minister Christian Schmidt hopes to create a legislative framework that would cover cultivation bans on genetically modified plants, but ...
Could genetically modified yeast replace flowers in fragrances?
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Can plants ‘learn’?
When we consider the propensity to learn, plants are probably the last living beings that come to mind. They seem ...
GMO wine? Scientists developing hangover free nutritionally-enhanced vino
Imagine wine, only better for you and without the hangover the next day. Researchers from the University of Illinois are ...
Organic corn variety rejects foreign pollen from other corn, such as GMOs
Organic farmers often live on islands in a sea of genetically modified crops. More than 90 percent of the corn ...
Chinese lead world in genetic rice research but government limits success
Angel or demon, transgenic crops have become one of the "frontier technologies" that China is determined to embrace. In contrast ...
Lucky fourth leaf: Mutation in clover DNA still a mystery
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Editorial: Connecticut Nature Center navigates storm over Monsanto contribution, says don’t blacklist corp donors
The Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center in Mystic deserves a chance to utilize its new policy for the acceptance of corporate ...
Food Babe complains NYT article doesn’t include scientists who agree with her
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‘Mom scientist’ won most credibility points from skeptical GMO consumers
Trying to win an argument based on science may be a losing game plan for gaining consumer trust in bioengineered ...
Death of British journalist after eating organic peanuts highlights absurdity of GMO safety scare
The tragic death of a British journalist in Uganda who died of a toxic reaction to an organic groundnut underscores ...
What are those masked men doing? Farmers protect against ‘dangerous’ organic and natural pesticides
Dr. Channa Prakash, Ag Bio World founder, ag biotech pioneer, and joker extraordinaire, points out that organic farming uses plenty of pesticides ...
Monarch population rebounds as NRDC sues EPA for not stopping ‘Armageddon’–Are GMOs the problem?
While monarch butterfly overwintering numbers rose this year, the overall trend remains down. But the simplistic narrative blaming GMOs for ...
Jane Goodall decries GM proponents as ‘anti-science’
Dame Jane Goodall, the renowned primate expert, has condemned ‘deluded’ politicians for pushing ‘Frankenstein Food’. The highly respected academic has ...
Best of both worlds: Farmer sees benefits in planting mix of GMO and non-GMO
For a Tolstoy farmer, the issue of whether to grow GMO crops isn’t as clear cut as it is for ...
Old friends open up about rift caused by GM vs. organic court battle
It started in the West Australian wheat belt with tense words between neighbours at a community working bee. It ended ...
Audio: Will FOIA request have ‘chilling effect’ on GMO science communication?
On the SGU this week we interviewed Kevin Folta, who is a biotechnology scientist at the University of Florida. Kevin ...
GMO farmers give up plow, making for healthier soil
Neatly tilled fields have long been a hallmark of American agriculture and its farmers, by and large traditionalists who often ...
Science: Genetically enhanced foods are greener option
It is unfortunate that many advocates of sustainable agricultural practices and “green” thinkers have embraced ideas that lie well outside ...
Ancient wheat DNA found in Britain provides clues to history of agriculture
Some of us spend so much time thinking about not eating wheat, particularly its key protein, gluten, that it can be difficult ...
Why public consensus on GMOs is difficult
As a lover of food, I like many of you have some opinions on genetically modified organisms or GMOs in ...
Activists raise alarms over fisheries using GMO soy as feed
Much of the fish feed now used in open-net pens includes GM soy -- an ingredient that Monsanto and Cargill ...
Are emerging genetic engineering techniques sustainable?
In the past four decades technology has fundamentally altered our lives: from the way we work to how we communicate ...
British farmers abandoning less sustainable, more costly organic techniques
Even as demand for organic food remains high, the farmers producing it are falling by the wayside. UK government figures ...
Beyond ‘romance’ of organics: 6 ignored sustainable practices organic proponents should embrace
Organic farming is often promoted by followers as 'close to Nature'--the sustainable way to grow food. Although some organic techniques ...
