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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Is Nature safer, healthier in medicine and food? Deadly take on controversial topic
It's called the "naturalist fallacy". Naturalist beliefs that seeds or foods developed in part by scientists, often working in laboratories, ...
GM ryegrass for cows that could boost milk production 15% faces opposition in Australia
Daily farmers in Victoria Australia are debating the pros and cons of genetically modified (GM) ryegrass as peak representative group, United ...
Producers of 70% of Africa’s food, women farmers shackled by GMO opponents
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Cardboard tasting tomatoes? Cutting edge genetic breeding to the rescue
At Oregon State University (OSU), Oregon’s only land-grant university, Jim Myers is quietly pursuing some of the most exciting vegetable ...
Food Babe plays race, sexist shill cards from “Deck of Deflection”
Vani Hari's new book attacking chemicals and GMOs in food is a roaring sales success. But that hasn't stopped critics ...
Young food scientists on why they stood up to Food Babe
In late January, a group of students pursuing graduate degrees in food science published an open letter to Vani Hari, ...
Confession of liberal, organic food consumer-scientist: ‘I support GMOs’
I love organic food. My “significant other” cooks and eats only organic and I love her food. My confession: I ...
GMO seeds boost corn yields more than 40%
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Mother Jones’s missed opportunity to reverse GMO safety consensus denialism
A year ago, Mother Jones published a balanced report on crop biotechnology, embracing the global consensus that GMOs are safe--a ...
How Food Babe mobilized an army against GMOs and chemicals
Over the past three years, Vani Hari has rapidly become one of the most popular voices on nutrition in mainstream ...
In wake of new EU GMO restrictions, Wales proposes further tightening
On January 13, the European Union (EU) voted in favour of amending legislation in Europe that will allow Member States ...
Is there gap in federal regulation of newer GMOs?
Critics say a loophole in federal regulations for genetically engineered crops will backfire against biotech companies. Under current rules, USDA ...
Longshot federal GMO labeling bill reintroduced: ‘GM crops force farmers to buy more pesticides’
Democratic Sens. Barbara Boxer of California and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut along with Rep. Pete DeFazio, D-Ore., held a press ...
USDA grants approval of nonbrowning Arctic apple
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Animal and Plant Healthy Inspection Service (APHIS) announced its decision to deregulate the first ...
Non-GMO sales skyrocketed in 2014
In the battle surrounding GMO labeling, 2014 was a huge year. A measure was narrowly defeated in Oregon -- and one ...
Zero tolerance policies on GMO “contamination” hurt organic and conventional farmers alike
Neighboring organic farmers and GMO farmers struggle to coexist amid fears of gene flow through cross pollination. Yet agricultural scientists ...
Hate GMOs? Don’t look now, they’re everywhere!
For those who hate GMOs, the Westminster Dog Show must be quite a nightmare-inducing event: Humans, over the course of ...
China jumpstarts GM, worries about ‘foreign domination’
China does not want its genetically modified food (GM) market to be dominated by foreign products (and thus foreign companies) ...
Truth about small farmers: They can’t make a living
I wondered how many small farmers, like myself, actually made a living. I looked into national statistics. Only the largest ...
NY farmers could receive additional legal protection from GMO seed lawsuits
Farmers in New York state would be better protected against lawsuits from biotech companies if genetically modified crops inadvertently grow ...
Will gene-edited products be considered GMOs?
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Kevin Folta on Biogate: It’s a ‘gotcha’ taxpayer-funded fishing expedition
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So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how
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Food sovereignty group sues Ghanian government over GM crop trials
Civil Society Group, Food Sovereignty Ghana has sued Government at the Human Rights Court, seeking an interim injunction on the ...
China plans to scale up cultivation of homegrown potatoes, likely investing in genetic tech
The Chinese Ministry of Agriculture started the year with an awkwardly named but nevertheless resonating event — at the "Potato ...
Cloned white Angus could double beef production in 10 years
Dr. James West, associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University and chief science officer of CAG, has developed a way ...
