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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Long history of E. coli and other food poisoning outbreaks at Chipotle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Washington and Oregon Health ...
Argentina crop dispute: Will companies innovate if they are denied royalties?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On average, it takes ...
Glyphosate is no bee killer
The science is in. Challenging anti-GMO claims, glyphosate (Roundup) doesn't kill bees, unless you drop a bottle of it on ...
New Zealand open to GMO innovation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Environment Minister Nick Smith ...
Scientists, universities grapple with defining ‘conflict of interest’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There has been much ...
Washington, Oregon investigating massive food poisoning outbreak at Chipotle
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. All Chipotle restaurants in ...
Talking Biotech: ‘Clean, Green and Ethical’ animal production and farming
Australian professor Graeme Martin on low cost, sustainable farming and animal production ...
Another bungled correlation study on bee health dangers of neonics
How the belief that neonics are primary threat to honey bees despite hard evidence pointing to Varroa mites and other ...
EPA proposes ban on common pesticide, chlorpyrifos, used on fruit, vegetable crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chlorpyrifos, a common pesticide ...
WHO’s IARC erroneous classification of coffee as carcinogenic shows system broken
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organizations’s ...
Stop calling food ‘toxic’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I am tired of ...
Clinton, Sanders say GMOs safe but back some form of labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As Iowa's January primary ...
Argentina developing eagerly anticipated drought tolerant GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sunflowers are hardy, tolerating heat ...
Should journalists speak at science industry financed outreach events?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. With media budgets shrinking, it’s common ...
Researchers now believe ‘bees addicted to neonics’ study was wrong
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does the media ...
How to combat herbicide resistance: Use more herbicide
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A while ago, IÂ wrote ...
Reinventing bread to make it tasty and nutritious
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Before the advent of ...
Why scientists are withdrawing from public conversation on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since July, controversy has ...
Unlikely alliance: How GMOs and Ecomodernism brought two ideologically opposite moms together
Two moms--both former skeptics of GMOs and from opposite sides of the political spectrum--find common ground in their support of ...
Halloween trick? Challenges to ‘deeply flawed’ sugar scare study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study claims that ...
Ghana faces biotech research, funding crisis
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dr. Marian D. Quain, ...
Labeling GMOs not equivalent to nutritional labels, will be costly
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In the fight over ...
USAID to support development of Simplot blight resistant potato for Asia
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. J.R. Simplot Co., in ...
EU assembly votes against proposal allowing members to opt out of GMO imports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Union assembly ...
Top Twitter influencers in GMO-organic debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We were very interested ...
Uganda’s President Museveni endorses GMOs, tipping scales in reluctant parliament
Talking directly to members of the Ugandan Parliament and several farmers who continue to suffer the burden of banana bacterial ...
