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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CRISPR: ‘When research has regulatory, not scientific goal, regulations must be fixed’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists say they hope to avoid ...
San Francisco dog owners claim glyphosate caused pets’ cancer, petition city parks to ban it
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Dog owners across San ...
Am I hurting my child feeding him GMOs? From mommy guilt to mommy outrage
Everyone from your neighbor to the TV chef to the plumber waxes about the importance of feeding your child 'safer' ...
National GMO import bans not sustainable for EU livestock production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In mid-October, members of ...
Have EU politicians ‘abdicated role as leaders’ on GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farming has a ...
GMO satire broadcast raises questions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Vern Blazek Science ...
“Fear Babe”: New book dissects the scare tactics of Vani Hari
From preservatives to pesticides, "Fear Babe" examines the claims of self-proclaimed Food Babe Vani Hari and the most notorious food ...
Gene editing could circumvent restrictive GMO regulations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Plant scientists have been quick ...
Art Caplan: Food industry should adopt voluntary GMO labels
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Upcoming EU vote to opt out of GMO soy imports could hurt farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A controversial proposal scheduled ...
Senate Agricultural Committee will hear testimony Oct. 21 on GMO labeling bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The battle over whether ...
New England Journal of Medicine ignored Chuck Benbrook’s failure to disclose organic conflicts of interests
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Prominent anti-GMO critic praises Cornell’s Alliance for Science for constructive debate
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Scientific consensus won’t sway emotional climate change or GMO critics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We have an important ...
GMOs could reduce Vietnam’s dependence on feed imports
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs would be a good ...
Europe debating how to regulate emerging genome editing technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. EU policymakers are about ...
‘Narcissistic food intolerance epidemic’ rages among affluent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Friends in Venice saw a restaurant ...
Talking Biotech: India’s cotton whitefly attack; Vitamin-enhanced cassava
Hervé Vanderschuren on vitamin-enhanced cassava; Laura Boykin on India's whitefly cotton infestation ...
Field trials of GMO crops in EU countries virtually nonexistent
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2015 the field ...
Biotechnology, supercomputer take on cassava pests, disease
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Perth team is ...
Campaign to put Nobel Prize-winning maize geneticist Barbara McClintock on $10 bill
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On June 16th the U.S ...
Citizen science will test hypothesis that wild animals avoid GMO corn
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One frequent Internet claim ...
Biotech selected microbes improves crop yield, reduces diease and fertilizer use
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Davis biotechnology company BioConsortia Inc. has ...
Many parents buy into ‘faulty premise’ that organic safer for kids
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It is almost a ...
German demand for non-GMO livestock feed may heavily influence soy production in Brazil
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is a now ...
Ethiopia ‘should support domestic crop biotechnology research and development’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Ethiopian government has ...
