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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Embracing GMOs presents psychological challenges to average consumers
Think of a science denier, and you might picture someone arguing that climate change isn't real or vaccines cause autism ...
Is agroecology the key to feeding the world?
Developing alternatives to predominant systems takes time. The encouraging news is that progress is underway. Around the world, communities are ...
Lesson to India? Bangladesh got GMO approval by challenging ‘devious’ environmentalists
Bangladesh Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury has set an example by politically challenging extreme environmentalists and private-enterprise-hating ideologues, which is in ...
GMOs needed to avert global water shortages
The UN’s annual World Water Development Report, published last March, warned that unless the balance between demand and supplies is ...
The Case for GMOs and Sustainability
From conventional breeding to mutagenesis, none of our foods that we eat today is the product of Nature’s way. But ...
Proposed Costa Rican GMO moratorium prompts worried letter from U.S. ambassador
The United States is expressing its concern over a proposed 15-year moratorium on the cultivation of genetically modified crops and ...
Taco Bell, Pizza Hut go natural, but no one knows what that really means
Last week, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut both announced they are going natural. Goodbye Yellow-5. Ciao trans fat. Sayonara unsustainable palm oil. “Today’s ...
Neil Young’s new anti-GMO song confuses science on Starbucks, Monsanto
Veteran rocker Neil Young, one of the founders of Farm Aid, is releasing a new album called “The Monsanto Years,” ...
WHO body looks for links between 2,4-D herbicide and cancer
The World Health Organization is set to examine a widely used pesticide and agribusiness is bracing for bad news, less ...
Why state by state GMO labeling laws won’t work
Over the past few months, there have been several big stories on the labeling of GMOs. The one factor that stands ...
Pro-GMO marchers shocked at unfocused anger of March Against Monsanto protesters
The most striking and at times frightening aspect of the March Against Monsanto was the unfocused vitriol voiced by the ...
Fact-checking pro-organic lobby group GMO ‘facts’, attacks on conventional agriculture
Fact-checking pro-organic lobby group Cornucopia.org's 'facts' yield surprising results ...
What people around the world are saying about the safety of GMOs
VICE News traveled around the world speaking to people about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and differences in opinion about engineered ...
Glyphosate’s environmental and health risks should be addressed by regulators
Monsanto's herbicide glyphosate -- trade name RoundUp -- which is used on most genetically engineered crops (also known as GMOs), ...
Seattle Times: USDA’s GMO verification smarter than mandatory labeling
Many consumers want to know whether their food contains genetically modified ingredients, and some businesses are responding with the help of ...
Jackson County, Oregon GMO ban to take effect in June after federal judge ruling
A federal judge in southern Oregon on May 29 rejected a request by two alfalfa farms to block Jackson County's ban ...
Could food companies face class action suits for carrying organic label?
Last month, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (S.D.N.Y.) issued a ruling on a ...
Seed savers bank on genetic diversity for resilience in face of climate change
Hundreds of seed exchanges—in which hobbyists and professional green thumbs share the most resilient plants from their crops—have sprung up ...
Researchers look for genetic clues to combat herbicide resistant weeds
On Colorado’s eastern plains, increasingly resilient strains of kochia have created a headache for both researchers and farmers. At Colorado ...
Will organic farmers embrace precision gene editing if ancient wild traits are restored?
What’s in a name? A lot, if the name is genetically modified organism, which many people are dead set against ...
Abbott slammed, praised after cutting GMOs from Similac, as competitors assess
Mixed reviews on Abbott's GMO removal decision. Scientists blast it for being hypocritical and anti-science while some anti-GMO groups are ...
Critics decry synbio vanillin for its perceived impact on poor farmers
On its journey from the fields in Madagascar to your ice cream, sponge cake and chocolate, the vanilla plant is ...
Why aren’t there any studies proving GMO safety?
When discussing transgenic crops, I regularly get asked to provide a paper that “proves” that GMOs are safe. Whether you ...
Non-GMO labels promote superstition; Scan code labels would provide context
A couple of weeks ago I was deeply disappointed to read that the USDA might get involved in an aspect ...
Anti-GMO stance by Greenpeace, other environmental activists, worsen climate change
The evidence suggests that GM crops can and do contribute to reducing global climate change. But high profile environmental groups, ...
Non-GMO Similac baby formula to appear in stores soon
The maker of Similac Advance, the top commercial baby formula brand in the United States, says it will begin selling ...
