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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War on Big Food: ‘Natural’ and organic vs. pesticides and GMOs?
Try this simple test. Say the following out loud: Artificial colors and flavors. Pesticides. Preservatives. High-fructose corn syrup. Growth hormones. Antibiotics ...
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 ...
Hungary may be first in Europe to ban GMOs in agriculture
The growing anti-GMO movement has gained traction in Europe as Hungary aims to be the first European Union nation to ...
Arctic apple founder proves GM crop can be developed on small budget
The Arctic apple is the creation of Okanagan Specialty Fruits, a eight-person company in Canada that scrimped and saved over ...
Chipotle’s GMO-free decision could be beginning of end of GMO era
The decision of the Chipotle restaurant chain to make its product lines GMO-free is not most people's idea of a ...
Pest developing resistance to phased out variety of GMO Bt corn, cotton
A new study from North Carolina State University and Clemson University finds the toxin in a widely used genetically modified ...
Using genetic solutions to make stronger bee
In 2007 reports of “colony collapse disorder”—swift, terrible deaths of entire colonies—suddenly mushroomed across Europe and the Americas. News reports ...
Scientist mom evaluates Simplot’s GMO Innate potato
The recently approved GMO potato offers some unique advantages, including better color and lower levels of acrylamide, which has been ...
What’s so unnatural about GM foods?
Chipotle hit the headlines last week when the company announced it would no longer serve customers genetically modified foods. Yet ...
Interview: Mary-Dell Chilton on her pioneering work on GMO crops
Mary-Dell Chilton pioneered the field of genetic engineering in agriculture. She has spent most of her decades-long career working for Syngenta, ...
Irrational measuring stick: The Venn Diagram of pseudoscientific nonsense
The curiously revered world of irrational nonsense has seeped into almost every aspect of modern society and is both complex ...
March Against Monsanto activists: ‘Do not use my disability to promote your agenda’
Ignorant people say the recent rise in autism diagnosis is not because of revised diagnostic criteria, or the result of ...
Protesters March Against Monsanto in over 400 cities around the world
Thousands of people across the world have joined together in a global movement, protesting against American biotech giant Monsanto. Activists ...
Socialist magazine rejects elites disdain for ‘industrial agriculture’
The Luddites’ fable of disaster, of a fall from grace, smacks more of wishful thinking than of digging through archives ...
DuPont closes Kauai operations under pressure from anti-GMO activists
DuPont Pioneer, the seed company that sells corn, sorghum, alfalfa, etc. and was considering expanding Kaua'i operations just a few ...
Lack of genetic diversity in coffee could lead to end of morning cup
Two billion cups of coffee are drunk around the world every day and 25 million families rely on growing coffee ...
GMO myth busting: Crops (and humans) safely composed of ‘foreign’ genes
A central canon of GMO critics is the belief that transgenics--transferring genes from one species to another--represents a 'crime against ...
Overwrought debate over GMOS diverts Africa from addressing food crisis
Say the words “green revolution,” and people take sides. ... As polarizing ideas go, though, the green revolution’s got nothing on ...
Golden Rice in India: Is it necessary? What are impediments to adoption?
The leading cause of life-altering disability in India is health risks linked to poor diets--which rice engineered to produce vitamin ...
Voters overwhelmingly reject GMO ban in Oregon county
A proposed ban on biotech crops in Oregon’s Benton County has failed by a strong margin. Nearly 73 percent of ...
‘Natural’ illusions: Biologist’s failed attempt to defend organic food
Swedish writer trained in biology had embraced organic food and farming for years as a safer and healthier alternative to ...
GMOs distract from legitimate concerns about food
Walking the floor of the National Restaurant Association Show that just ended in Chicago, the claim I saw most often ...
What scientific consensus on GMOs actually means
Over and over, I’ve read comments on the internet (obviously, my first mistake) that there is no scientific consensus about ...
Organic not healthier than other foods: Organic junk food still junk
Demand for organic foods keeping growing, and big box retailers and mainstream grocery chains, from Walmart to Costco, have jumped ...
