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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Scottish official admits GMO ban based on marketing not science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A controversial decision to ban ...
World’s ’17 most dangerous foods’ includes no GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A list of the ...
NZ farm group on Australian court ruling: ‘all farmers have duty to make co-existence work’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A Western Australian Court ...
US overturns approval of sulfoxaflor, only neonicotinoid approved in EU
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A worldwide dispute over ...
Georgia’s Wayne Parrott: ‘Time to end transparency double-standard targeting biotech scientists’
I have long been a firm believer that any public scientist who cannot explain, defend and justify his/her work to ...
World faces many problems– why talk about GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Why are we still ...
Why Ben and Jerry’s, Non-GMO project, others oppose SAFE Act
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. From my perspective, HR1599 ...
Moms defending science, GMOs in culture of alarmism
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Julie Gunlock, IWF's Culture ...
Fear of rogue organism, global catastrophe drives anti-GMO hysteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Are GMOs just too ...
Do anti-GMO activists use ‘tobacco science’?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Credible Hulk has ...
‘McCarthy-style’ attacks on biotech scientist amplified by NYT, Chronicle of Higher Ed.
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: Jean Goodwin ...
Anti-GMO activists promote flawed paper claiming GMO soy accumulates formaldehyde
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists occasionally “go rogue,” ...
Should emotional issues like GMOs require higher standard of conflict of interest disclosure?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMOs are an emotionally charged ...
Un-trendy reasons NOT to feed your family organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When I read Mamavation's ...
Non-GMO Project objects to competition, opposes federal voluntary labeling standard
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. While supporters of Rep ...
Allowing EU states to ban GM feed would threaten European animal food production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On September 10th, the agriculture ...
Dangerous chemicals causing sex changes in frogs? Yes, natural ones
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's not easy being ...
GMOs and patent laws: No Monsanto does not sue innocent farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There is a popular ...
Are scientists who collaborate with industry tainted?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When does conflict of ...
Anti-GMO activists use FOIA to bully mother-scientist nutrition and lactation expert
USRTK has wielded FOIA requests as a weapon to bully scientists. Michelle McGuire, a globally respected nutrition expert, is the ...
Tufts nutrition expert navigates ‘destructive debate’ over GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note] Parke Wilde ...
GMOs gaining favor in US, Australia has potential to lead in biotech if ‘hard choices’ made
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. An American journalist, scholar ...
As GMO labeling debate shifts to Senate, lobbying dollars flow
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Combatants in a national ...
Academic scientists’ participation in GMO debate neither new nor ‘inappropriate’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Academic scientists have played ...
Will sugar, sweetener, salt, cholesterol, fat, HFCS, (fill in blank) kill you?
Scientists, the media and policymakers often make glib connections between certain foods, nutrition and disease. The links are a lot ...
Australian organic industry trying to bully GMOs out of existence with zero tolerance contamination policy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Visiting US journalist Jon Entine ...
Chinese farmers illegally growing GMO soybeans to achieve higher yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Farmers in Heilongjiang Province ...
