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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GM technology increases drought tolerance by protecting roots
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agriculture is estimated to ...
Monsanto may look to Bayer CropScience after abandoning Syngenta takeover
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Monsanto has abandoned its $47 ...
Global Food Series: How much do households from around the world spend on food?
In an absolute sense, the United States spends more per household on food consumed at home ($2,390 per year) than, ...
Anti-GMO group sues USDA for delays in responding to FOIA requests regarding GMO safety
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A nonprofit organization called ...
Hell on wheels for organic purists?
Oh, the organic humanity... ? Won't anyone think of the children...? ...
Yale professor dissects flawed anti-GMO commentary in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A recent commentary published ...
As Kenya prepares to lift ban on GMOs, critics say biotech crops aren’t only option to improve production
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. The debate sparked by ...
“Big Food” (Goliath) lobbies and “Good Food” (David) doesn’t? Don’t believe the propaganda
Food politics rage in Washington over who spends more on lobbying: Big Food or Big Organics. Here's the skinny on ...
GM plants great option for organic farmers but arbitrarily excluded
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Professor Ian Godwin from ...
‘GMO technology could become solution to, rather than cause of, food allergies’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2000 the FDA ...
Is organic farming and food a sustainable choice?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Producers of organic food ...
Can Bernie Sanders act like a progressive on GMOs, overcome tribal allegiances, embrace science?
The desire to eat organic and the opposition to genetic modification technology in agriculture can be primal and precautionary to ...
Warning: Mandated GMO labeling comes at a cost
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. As economist David Henderson points ...
GMO crops benefit small vegetable farms as well as large industrial farms
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Novel seed genetics—particularly GM ...
Hawaii activists marshall anecdotes to claim GMOs, pesticides linked to birth defects
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Local doctors find themselves ...
Following criticism, PLOS removes blog defending scrutiny of science
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Community blog PLOS Biologue has pulled ...
Germany begins process to opt-out of EU rules and ban GMO crops
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Germany has initiated a ...
GM trees that prevent pest disease tied up in regulation, anti-GMO attacks
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. U.S. researchers say it ...
Targeting Kevin Folta for teaching genetics shows ethics of anti-GMO activist attackers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A well-respected researcher in ...
Talking Biotech: In wake of bungled USRTK FOIA attack, Kevin Folta clarifies future of genetic literacy outreach
In wake of bungled USRTK FOIA attack, Kevin Folta clarifies future of genetic literacy outreach ...
Philadelphia Inquirer joins long list of prominent newspapers opposing GMO labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. America's foremost nutritional problem ...
Organic food recalls due to bacterial contamination soaring
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. New data collected by Stericycle, ...
Non GMO salt? Water? Food companies exploit GMO free labels, misleading customers, promoting misinformation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Last year, Evolution Salt ...
UK House of Commons: Greenpeace, anti-GM activists distort science on GMOs, calls for deregulation
A UK House of Commons report lashed out at anti-GMO advocacy groups for misapplying the 'precautionary principle' to the GM ...
EPA, Monsanto ignore health risks of RNA interference technology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Americans could soon be ...
Advances in genetic engineering highlights fractured regulatory structure
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. As the battle over GMO labeling ...
