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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GMO breeding: Years of practice but still divisive
Proponents and critics of genetic modification (GM) have been arguing over the potential impact of genetically modified organisms (GMO) on ...
Anti-GMO activists in Hawaii hope for appeal after judge invalidates new restrictions
Oversight of genetically modified crops in Hawaii remains the state’s kuleana, a federal judge ruled last week when invalidating Hawaii County’s ...
Confessions of Boulder, Colorado liberal: Why I opposed GMO ‘right to know’ bill
One Colorado resident reviews the evidence and changed her mind on various proposals for the mandatory labeling of GMOs ...
Sorry Dr. Oz and Jenny McCarthy: More scientific proof vaccines, GMOs don’t cause autism
Despite the loud voices of disinformation, the scientific community has overwhelmingly agreed that there is no causal link between vaccines ...
GLP Infographic: All GMO research is industry funded? Biofortified analysis sets record straight
One of the most common criticisms of GMOs is that 'almost all the research is industry funded' and therefore cannot ...
Millennials support sustainability and biotech
Health and nutrition related information are two important topics for US consumers, but recently there has been an increasing interest ...
Swiss GMO potato goes to field trial
The Swiss Agricultural Research Institute, Agroscope, wants to try growing genetically modified potatoes, reports the Swiss website Blick.ch. The goal of ...
Bee deaths and neonics: Inside story of Colony Collapse Disorder, Harvard’s Chensheng Lu’s crusade
Two "Harvard studies" by nutritionist Chensheng Lu are the linchpin of the claim that we face a global bee collapse ...
Axing of European science czar over GMO issues: 1 step forward for Greenpeace, 2 steps back for EU and science
Since 2012, the distinguished Scottish biologist Anne Glover has served as chief scientific adviser to the President of the European ...
Poll shows most Americans buy organic food based on fear, misconceptions
Young American consumers care about their food, but they’re also entirely baffled by what they’re eating. When brand consultancy BFG ...
San Juan Islands’ 2012 ban on GMOs: Incubator for debate
In 2012, a humble farmer in the off-the-beaten-track archipelago of the San Juan Islands fired a shot in the form of ...
Gates Foundation, GMO banana face renewed attacks
Among the controversial projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the development and testing of a biofortified ...
Amid maize famine, more Kenyans call for lifting GMO ban
With a virus threatening the crops of up to 70 percent of Kenya's maize farmers, a number of lawmakers are ...
Politics, economic self-interest driving China’s GMO corn ban
For 42 years, Don Villwock has grown soybeans and corn on 4,000 acres in southwest Indiana. He has endured low ...
Just label it: Risk expert says food companies’ fears about GMO stigmatization unwarranted
There are a lot of pros and cons about agricultural biotechnology, AKA GMOs. Factual pros and cons about human safety ...
Hepatitis B vaccine produced cheaply and efficiently using GMO corn
A small technology venture, called Applied Biotechnology Institute (ABI) in San Luis Obispo, CA, a lovely small city along the Central ...
Infographic: The more GMO corn grown in US the less harmful insecticides are used
The surprising inverse relationship between genetically modified crops and insecticide use in the U.S. (from Mark Lynas) ...
Can GMO corn help Mexican farmers reduce pesticides?
Is there a way to reduce pesticide use? Scientists believe that insect-resistant maize could be the answer. Scientists have found ...
Food scientist Bruce Chassy: Although some GMO sympathizers embrace labeling, it’s a disaster in waiting
A number of prominent journalists, who report fairly and objectively about GMO foods, are urging food and seed companies to ...
Israel warming to GMO crops as eco tech solution
Supplying food to a growing population without destroying the world’s ecological systems is one of humanity’s great challenges. Israel is ...
Climate change challenges demand more than GMO seeds
When my daughter turned 7 last week, we celebrated with a homemade chocolate cake. I wonder whether she’ll be able ...
Could Congress finally end the GMO labeling war?
Is the tide shifting on the state-by-state approach by anti-GMO activists to impose the labeling of genetically modified foods? ...
In push to snare low income shoppers, Whole Foods to put cigarette-like warnings on GMO foods
Whole Foods’ central conceit as a company is that it sells only the best, healthiest food—which sometimes requires paying more ...
UK scientists critical of axing of EU science advisor, EU GMO bans
The European Union’s de facto ban on genetically modified (GM) crops may have caused more harm than good, according to ...
McDonald’s won’t use GMO ‘Innate’ potatoes, people respond
McDonald’s announced that while the FDA approved a new genetically modified potato called the Innate potato, which has DNA that has ...
Could GMO potatoes be healthier than ones we’re eating?
Radio host Lars Larson interviewed Henry Miller, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, about the new Innate potato developed by J.R. Simplot ...
Oregon farmers sue Jackson county to overturn GMO ban
Jackson County voters passed a ban on GMO crops last May. Now the courts will test the ordinance's validity. Two county ...
