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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Landrigan and Benbrook get it wrong on GMOs in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an opinion piece was ...
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 ...
Science moms to celebrity moms: Let’s discuss GMOs, farming, safety and health together
The anti-GMO movement moved away long ago from grounded positions in science to promoting fear, and using celebrities as their ...
How to immunize children against allure of anti-science, emotion-based thinking on GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
GMO critics claim safety consensus manufactured by industry lobbyists, fellow travelers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A Tufts researcher, Sheldon Krimsky, ...
Grocery Manufacturers, biotech giants spend big bucks promoting GM salmon, voluntary GMO labeling laws
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Americans want a more ...
Scotland’s GMO ban could leave its most valuable food export, farmed salmon, at disadvantage
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Scottish ministers took another ...
Are GMOs and herbicides safe? New England Journal of Medicine commentary casts doubt
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this commentary to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's Note: For a profile ...
Genetically modifying crops to improve photosynthesis could boost yields
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Unless we increase the ...
European public scientists urge Scotland to reverse ‘political’ GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A powerful group of ...
Matt Ridley: Greens scare mongering on GMOs, fracking, pesticides blunts access to safer technologies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. The public has increasingly ...
Activist beekeepers sue EPA for not moving to restrict neonicotinoids
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. With their livelihoods in ...
Kevin Folta’s Florida colleague reflects on conflicts in biotech communication outreach
A fellow professor of Dr. Kevin Folta at the University of Florida analyzes the controversy over genetic literacy outreach and ...
Environmental activists claim “misguided war” on invasive plants is big business for Monsanto, glyphosate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Nowadays, the notion that ...
Possibility of GMOs reducing genetic diversity, resilience of wild populations causes concern
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Many are concerned that GMOs will ...
Seed bank advantages lost in fog of anti-GMO war
While anti GMO activists push for organics, a complimentary answer to feeding the world may lie in seed banks. Only ...
As sea levels rise, GMO salt-tolerant crops could address urgent need
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Sea rise, one of ...
Foreign spies now stealing GMO secrets, not just military secrets
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Can organic farming sustainably feed the developing world?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2030, the world ...
GMO debate may hinder progress of RNA interference biotechnology in Europe
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The debate around genetically ...
Specter of Agent Orange haunts introduction of GMOs to Vietnam
When Vietnam moved economically from communism to capitalism in the 1980s, it enjoyed an agriculture boom that lifted millions from ...
Why the Millennial Generation might embrace GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The natural-foods craze has ...
Could non GMO hybrid wine grapes create a Napa Valley in South Dakota?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Wine grapes specially bred ...
