Crops & 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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Iowa consumers care more about taste, price, nutrition, safety than organic or GMOs in food
Iowans care about where their food is grown, whether it's organic, made with high-fructose syrup or without GMOs, a new ...
Stewardship program essential for new GM herbicide-resistant crops to be effective
On June 30 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed a 60-day comment period on its proposed decision to register ...
Oregon’s GMO task force gets few answers from federal GMO regulators
An Oregon task force studying genetically modified crops and food grilled federal regulators at its meeting Thursday, but didn’t get a lot ...
South Africa to review GMO labeling regulations over ‘loophole’
Local food companies had been hiding large amounts of genetically modified organism (GMO) content behind the “may contain GMOs” label, ...
GM papaya registry in Hawaii will not release growers’ information publicly
Judge Greg Nakamura granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday preventing Hawaii County from disclosing the identity and specific location of farms ...
Ag industry’s failure to communicate biotech’s benefits to blame for heated GMO debate
The heated public debate over genetically modified foods shows the agricultural industry is not doing enough to communicate biotechnology's benefits ...
El Salvadoran farmers protest millions in US aid over GM seeds
Farmers in El Salvador are protesting against a multimillion-dollar grant from a US aid agency that would force the country to open its seed ...
Single standard needed for GMO labeling to serve consumers, not special interests
I have a big family—and between me, my kids, and my grandkids, we’re spread out across America. We live in ...
Similarities between anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists
If there’s one characteristic that nearly all cranks share it’s an intolerance of criticism and a tendency to want to ...
Myles Power video: Scientific deception or ignorance? How the anti-GMO machine works
English biochemist and science communicator Myles Power reviews the findings of a study claiming to link GMO foods to leukemia ...
Inside look at Jeffrey Smith’s anti-GMO event
A small group of Centre For Inquiry members and University of British Columbia Okanagan professors were in the Okanagan College ...
Japanese scientists find GM cure for flower aging, help bouquets remain fresh for longer
Japanese scientists say they have found a way to slow down the ageing process in flowers by up to a ...
Iowa State expert in food science and human nutrition: No evidence that GMOs are harmful
The question of whether GMOs are safe to eat is one among many that Ruth MacDonald hears a lot of. MacDonald ...
GMOs can be developed to promote soil health and fertility
Biotechnology can be used to improve soil health but that’s not necessarily happening the way it is being used today, ...
Oregon has no authority over federally approved GM crops, state officials say
Oregon agriculture officials say the state has no authority over genetically modified crops once federal regulators deem them safe for ...
EU still torn over crop-based biofuels amid fear of rising food costs
The debate over biofuels risks dragging on, despite EU energy ministers reaching an agreement on the controversial crop-based fuels. EU ...
GM debate distracts from urgent need to address food security and sustainability
Once again, there are calls to reopen the debate on genetically modified (GM) crops. I find these calls frustrating and ...
Infographic: Climate change vs. GMOs: Comparing the independent global scientific consensus
What do the world's top scientists have to say about climate change and GMOs? Why do so many people who ...
Oregonian editorial: GMO labeling push ‘stigmatizes products’, sows confusion
The Oregonian, known for its independent and mostly liberal views on policy issues, has come out with an editorial on ...
Video: ‘Journey of a gene’ illustrates science of genetic engineering for consumers
With the ongoing push for labeling and transparency in the production of genetically engineered foods, some consumers want to know, ...
Strawberries and lawsuits: Future of favorite fruit hinges on intellectual property
When one of the world's foremost strawberry breeders decided to leave UC Davis, it sparked a controversy culminating in a ...
Return of iconic American chestnut with help of GE calls for celebration
If the greatest living American were a tree, it would probably be the chestnut. In the first half of the 20th ...
Philippines can become chicken exporter if it adopts high-yielding GM corn
Philippines stands to secure a niche in the global chicken-export market if it can reduce feed prices to global levels ...
Western Australian farmer hailed hero for resisting ‘bullying’ over GM ‘contamination’
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter has been described as a modern day hero who should be hailed for resisting “the ...
Widespread GM crop adoption created ‘agricultural desert,’ starving honeybees
The life of honeybees in the United States used to be much simpler, but now beekeepers are navigating a gauntlet ...
Seralini study data ‘mess’, even shows GMO and glyphosate diet increased male rat lifespans
According to Andrew Kniss, a weed expert at the University of Wyoming, who reviewed the limited data released in the ...
Will anti-GM Europe change its mind about GM foods?
While the United States, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and China and many other countries have warmly embraced genetically modified crops, Europe ...
