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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Australian GMO ‘contamination’ battle won’t end in with High Court review
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Supporters on both sides ...
GMO technology that saved Montana’s sugar beets now tarnishing their reputation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Montana's sugar beet industry faces ...
Being anti-GMO ‘doesn’t make you anti-science’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pro-GMO rhetoric has increased ...
Some speculate glyphosate leading to deer population decline as corn fields get less weedy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whitetails have thrived in ...
Soylent meal replacement drink embraces GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “PRO GMO”. In Hollywood, ...
Autism and health fears lead families to abandon science, find scapegoat in GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When doctors diagnosed their ...
Argentina approves GMO disease resistant potatoes, drought tolerant soy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Argentina is negotiating with ...
Hershey says it could go GMO free if consumer resistance grows
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. “I wake up every ...
Activist Ninth Circuit court ruling overturning EPA’s sulfoxflor insecticide approval squeezes citrus industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. citrus farmers are ...
Court rules biotech firms may be responsible if GMO crops disrupt export market
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Biotech developers may have ...
Australian organic farmer applies to take GMO contamination case to High Court
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A West Australian organic ...
Beware mudslinging: How abuse of FOIA derails discussion of science and GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In general, FOIA requests ...
Almost none of our food is ‘natural,’ GMOs safe, necessary
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "Over the centuries we’ve ...
Connecticut’s GMO labeling law hinges on challenge to Vermont law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The fate of Connecticut's ...
European Food Safety Authority dismisses Seralini GMO rat food ‘contamination’ study
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a paper published ...
Nassim Taleb’s Precautionary Principle nonsense and warped “GMO” pseudo-category
Expertise in economic, statistics and stock market risk does not translate into competent analysis about biotechnology and food ...
Public perception of farmers in decline, hurting agricultural industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For the agricultural industry, ...
Common organic pesticides (biopesticides) found ‘acutely toxic’ to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The honey bee, Apis ...
Reality of organic food doesn’t match pastoral image
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organic farming movement ...
Anti-GMO forces can slow train of technological progress but cannot derail it
Science ultimately conquers ignorance and so it will be with GMOs ...
Monsanto in center of GMO, glyphosate storm
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has been reeling ...
Crop diversity declining in US, but trend could be quickly reversed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study published last month ...
Gene edited allergy-free peanuts on horizon but GMO fears may block arrival
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While you won’t find ...
Europe’s GMO production likely to grow despite many EU nations opting out of GMO cultivation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The large number of ...
Pro-biotech academic researchers contacted by Monsanto under fire
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto Co.’s undisclosed recruitment ...
Monsanto on why corporations work with academics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Unless you’ve worked in ...
Glyphosate: Real risks, benefits of poster child for GMO debate
PHThe GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s hard to talk ...
