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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Journal ‘pollution’ contributes to mistrust of science, GMOs
The scientific community is facing a 'pollution problem' in academic publishing, one that poses a serious threat to the "trustworthiness, ...
Fears of GMO baby formula drive moms to buy contaminated breast milk online
Shoes, groceries, furniture, plane tickets—we’re used to being able to buy pretty much whatever we want online. If a pair ...
Audio interview: Zimbabwean regulatory official lauds multiple uses of GMOs in health, agriculture
National Biotechnology Authority registrar and chief executive officer Jonathan Mufandaedza spoke to NewsDay at the regional biotechnology training workshop at ...
Argentine farmers accuse Monsanto of power play over GMO royalties
Argentine farmers, who have been confronting the government over export duties since 2008, are accusing the local branch of agribusiness ...
Would GMO labeling cause $500 increase in grocery bill?
A study by Cornell University Professor William Lesser found that if GMO labeling is required in New York, a family of ...
Infographic: Are Europeans more opposed to GMOs than North Americans?
What do Europeans really think about GMOs? Are they as skeptical of the technology as is the European political establishment ...
Organic sales have plateaued following rapid growth
According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, total organic product sales by farms and ranches in the U.S. have increased ...
Watch scientist challenge the scare-promoting Food Babe
Food Babe has built her career on denigrating scientists, farmers and food experts. Then she encountered Alison Bernstein, aka Mommy ...
Precision breeding tailors genome for fresher flowers
A pot of pretty petunias will practically sell itself, but petunias don’t retain their beauty for long. A joint Israeli-American ...
GMOs have health benefits not health risks
GM apples and potatoes were recently approved in the U.S. and Canada, but with some pushback from companies due to ...
Kevin Folta sets example on how to have civil conversation on GMOs
Dr. Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida, recently came to lecture ...
Political right not alone in scientific illiteracy: Left disregards science on GMOs, vaccines
It is tremendously ironic that the political left, which frequently attacks the right’s denial of evolution, is much more likely ...
Scientific American: Why trumped up glyphosate controversy obscures benefits of GM technology
It’s been awhile since I’ve written on GMOs, but it may be time to start again. Recently, a huge amount ...
Smear campaign against glyphosate: ‘Consumers have a right to know when they’re being peddled a lie’
The anti-biotech activist Gary Hirshberg, Stonyfield Farms CEO and recent White House nominee to a trade advisory committee, seems to ...
FBI: Chinese accused of stealing patented GMO seeds are national security threat
Does protecting America's lucrative genetically modified seed corn industry warrant the use of national security laws intended to fight terrorists ...
How high speed computers can team with genetic engineering to feed the world
Using high-performance computing and genetic engineering to boost the photosynthetic efficiency of plants offers the best hope of increasing crop ...
Anti-GMO groups lobby fast food restaurants to not sell GM apple or potato
Consumer advocacy groups are asking Burger King, Wendy’s, Subway and Dunkin' Donuts for commitments not to sell the genetically engineered ...
Jeffrey Smith: ‘I know nothing about GMOs but that doesn’t stop me from promoting junk science’
Jeffrey Smith, head of one-man band and rabidly anti-GMO organization Institute for Responsible Technology, has taken aim at two respected ...
Vanillin: Forerunner of synthetic biology flavors
Both the natural and chemical methods to make vanilla are costly and environmentally burdensome, but a new approach using the ...
Response to US-Right to Know: ‘Scientists live by evidence not PR’
The most hilarious part about US-RTK is that they are so clueless on science that they'll actually print the stuff ...
Australian farm group advocates lifting of GMO ban
Leading Australian advocates for genetically modified (GM) crops have called for State moratoriums on the science to be dissolved. AusBiotech hosted ...
From pink pineapple to purple tomatoes, next wave of GMO foods will have health benefits
Cancer-fighting pink pineapples, heart-healthy purple tomatoes and less fatty vegetable oils may someday be on grocery shelves alongside more traditional ...
EPA to place restrictions on glyphosate due to weeds developing resistance
U.S. regulators will put new restrictions on the world's most widely used herbicide to help address the rapid expansion of ...
Sharing genomic data speeds cassava breeding for African farmers
When the time comes to harvest cassava, a subsistence farmer in Africa – often a woman – hauls them to ...
‘Clueless’ how science is done, U.S. Right ‘Two’ Know issues new wave of FOI GMO demands
Previously, it was reported that 14 Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) requests had been filed seeking the correspondence of academic ...
Breaking news from The Onion: Monsanto’s latest GMO crop strain yields record amount of litigation
Agricultural biotech giant Monsanto unveiled its latest strain of genetically modified corn Wednesday, claiming that the new, hardier seed yields ...
