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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Ontario farmers claim they are ‘bullied’ by proposed neonics ban
In November, the Ontario premier’s office and the ministry of the environment and climate change revealed its plan to restrict the ...
Can biotech help threatened bluefin tuna?
Of all the overfished fish in the seas, luscious, fatty bluefin tuna are among the most threatened. Marine scientist Goro ...
After education on GMOs, ‘idea became less scary’
A few weekends ago I made the four-hour drive from my hometown of Madison, Wisconsin to Northfield, Minnesota to visit ...
Avoiding GMOs based on precautionary principle is flawed logic
Some public commentaries proclaim that, on account of a philosophic notion called the Precautionary Principle, a moratorium or ban should be placed ...
Big Data shows value for farmers and industry
Who knew that the specific crossover of agriculture and big data was such a big deal? Everyone from Mother Jones ...
GMO yeast: One solution to omega-3 decline in salmon
When it comes to omega-3s, the message is clear: All salmon is a good choice. But that might soon change ...
Evolution of Food Babe: From misguided consumer advocate to crude bully
It's been a rough week for the Food Babe. After her takedown by NPR, Vani Hari has begun lashing out ...
How would Norman Borlaug, father of Green Revolution, tackle climate change?
Norman Borlaug was many things to many people. To his colleagues, he was a meticulous and rigorous agronomist, obsessed with ...
Fish-farmed genetically modified salmon could help alleviate overexploited wild fisheries
Seafood remains one of the last types of foods that we harvest from the wild at a commercial level, and ...
Oregon GMO labeling supporters file lawsuit over rejected votes
Supporters of a measure to label genetically modified food in Oregon filed a lawsuit today claiming 4,600 valid votes were ...
Dung factor: Why organic farming yields can never match conventional farming
In the last year or so the claim that organic farming methods can feed the world has come up several ...
Global Risks of Rejecting Agricultural Biotechnology
With the demand for food expected to double by 2050, biotechnology can lead to increased food security, as well as ...
Mexico poised to approve 132 GMO crops and foods
The Federal Commission for the Protection against Sanitary Risks (Cofepris) in Mexico approved the sale and consumption of 132 genetically modified ...
Opponents to GE trees contend science violates environment and social mores
Organizations against genetically engineered (GE) trees are working across four continents to call for an end to the scientific manipulation ...
Kenya’s maize famine underscores need for Africa to confront GMO fears
Kenya could lose a third of its maize crop to a lethal virus. Is it time that Kenya and Africa ...
GMO opponent Vani Hari, Food Babe, lashes out at critics
We are close to winning. Over the last three years, the coalition we have built, the Food Babe Army, has had ...
EU GM crops in limbo for years likely to move forward with compromise in hand
Agreement to permit country-level bans of genetically modified plants should ease deadlocks in EU approval process. After years of political ...
Nobel Prize winner calls anti-GMO opinion ‘crime against humanity’
This is how you kick off a biotech convention: On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Medicine Richard J. Roberts accused ...
Two organic dairies yank support from lawsuit against GMO labeling
New Hampshire-based Stonyfield Farm and California’s Clover Stornetta Farms, two organic dairy producers, have withdrawn from a trade group seeking to ...
Silence from Bill Nye to Kevin Folta GMO debate challenge
Some of you might recall the open letter from Kevin Folta, a University of Florida plant scientist, inviting ["The Science Guy," Bill ...
Can GMO technology sustainably rescue threatened Florida oranges, tomatoes and papayas?
Biotech breeding innovations are desperately needed in Florida, where the humid climate creates ideal conditions for disease-causing bacteria and fungi ...
Neonics ban tied to corrupted bee research by scientists at EU’s ethically-challenged IUCN?
Under the auspices of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, activist scientists map out a 4-year strategy to get ...
Reflections on the Great Biotech Debate: Dissecting the arguments
Intelligence Squared, an organization that organizes public debates across the globe, holds them in traditional Oxford debating style which pits one team ...
Glyphosate used with GMO crops under attack for disrupting microbiome: Science or a gut feeling?
Despite professional science and health organizations such as the American Medical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science ...
Consumers open to GMO foods, nanotechnology if there are health benefits
Research from North Carolina State University and the University of Minnesota shows that the majority of consumers will accept the ...
Got synbio milk? Bioengineers create lactose-free lab-grown milk
Brace yourself for udderless dairy. What can science do better than a cow? That’s the question a trio of vegan bioengineers ...
