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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Farmers need better communication with public on GMO issues
Farmers and ranchers are honest men and women who have been known to seal a deal just with a handshake ...
Talking Biotech: Rothamstead’s aphid-repelling GMO wheat; Critique of Adyydurai’s formaldehyde claim
Rothamstead’s John Pickett onaphid-repelling GMO wheat; Kevin Folta critique of Adyydurai’s formaldehyde claim ...
Anti-GMO critics claim Big Ag out lobbies “good food” organic supporters
The leaders of the so-called good food sector — including Chipotle, Whole Foods and Applegate — are winning big in ...
Do activists claiming pesticide Beemageddon really care about bee survival or is it tactical ploy?
We know that activist groups really care about bees. In 2013, about 200 activists held a funeral for 50,000 bumblebees that ...
Can genetic engineering resurrect extinct plant species?
The subject of extinction and de-extinction are much in the news at the moment, but discussions tend to focus on ...
Asia poised to overtake anti-GMO Europe in farming innovation
If current economic growth trends persist, the “Great Divergence” between Western Europe and East and South Asia in per capita ...
Obama declines to answer whether US supports GMOs in Ethiopia
During his official visit to Ethiopia, President Barack Obama toured Faffa Foods highlighting why one of his signature policy initiatives ...
Would mandatory GMO labeling help consumers understand what they’re eating?
The House of Representatives recently passed a bill that prevents states from requiring GMO labels, despite the fact that nine ...
Glyphosate carcinogenic? WHO clarifies conflicting declarations
A statement by the World Health Organization's cancer research branch, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), classifying the ...
GM moths may be eco-safe way to curb pest
Scientists from the Oxford University spin-off company Oxitec say they have developed a way of genetically modifying and controlling an ...
Has farm-to-table movement become a marketing sham?
Today, chefs can’t shut up about where every morsel that went into every dish got its start in life. No ...
Neil Young’s anti-GMO campaign is sham
Neil Young is a perennially pissed-off legend of rock, a toe-tapping lyricist who has used his songs to protest a ...
India’s moratorium on GM eggplant not based on food safety
Years after the government imposed an indefinite moratorium on the commercial release of Bt Brinjal, genetically-modified for resistance to the ...
Will Hollywood anti-GMO/pro-labeling activists Lena Dunham and Gwyneth Paltrow consider science?
Human geneticist who now opposes mandatory GMO labeling appeals to actresses to engage independent university scientists and not just ideologues ...
Have humans manipulated ‘natural’ foods before modern GMOs? Look at a Renaissance painting
Over time, we've bred watermelons to have the bright red color we recognize today. That fleshy interior is actually the ...
Why former organic farmer, food inspector turned against Big Organic to embrace GMOs
Nothing cuts deeper than feeling betrayed. That's the story of a former organic farmer who now believes the industry who ...
WHO’s IARC’s new target: Red meat, which may be classified, along with glyphosate, as carcinogen
In March, the World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) made headlines when it declared that glyphosate, ...
Single letter in corn’s DNA big factor in evolution of today’s corn
About 10,000 years ago, the teosinte plant underwent a mutation that would change the world. The tough greenish husks surrounding its ...
Study concludes consumers would not view GMO label as warning
There is an economic and political battle taking place in America over the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. As ...
Organic agriculture ‘unscientific, heavily subsidized marketing gimmick’
Consumers of organic foods are getting both more and less than they bargained for. On both counts, it’s not good ...
We should label GMOs–Not because of dangers but because they are safe
Recently the House of Representatives found itself with a surprising group of allies: scientists. The House voted to ban state requirements that ...
Journalists tour ‘belly of the beast’ Monsanto in unique journalist bootcamp
I went to a four-day journalism program on food and agriculture put on by the National Press Foundation (NPF), and the ...
To make meat greener, make it more efficiently
Meat consumption is increasing around the world as countries become wealthier. That leaves us with the practical meat question — that is, the ...
Video: Monsanto spars with Australia’s Undercurrent over glyphosate, ‘world food domination’
The Guardian hosted a scathing video on Monsanto's business practices and history by Undercurrent, an online news show. It then ...
White strawberries? How genetics is creating the berry of the future
For a little berry, the genetics of the strawberry are astoundingly complex. Humans have two sets of chromosomes, making inherited ...
Methane reducing genetically modified rice in development
Not all climate-change mitigation involves changing human habits. In a paper in Nature, scientists unveiled a new genetically modified rice plant ...
EU fights ‘STOP TTIP’ activists campaign maligning US crops with YouTube videos
In early 2013, President Barack Obama's call for a U.S.-EU trade deal generated such optimism in Europe that the graffiti ...
