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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Anti-GMO activist scientist publishes book questioning GMO safety, sustainability
Are genetically engineered foods safe? Truth is, we probably don't know. "The scientific debate is not resolved, even though many ...
Eager Bengal farmers smuggling unapproved GMO Bt eggplant seeds from Bengladesh
The West Bengal government claimed it has received information regarding “infiltration” of commercial seeds of Bt-Brinjal, a genetically modified (GM) ...
Wal-Mart moves to cash in on organic suspicion of GMOs, conventional foods
Sales of organic food are booming again. The growth in sales of organic products in the U.S., food and nonfood, ...
Marks & Spencer joins Tesco in selling more GMO foods
Marks & Spencer has come under fire for abandoning its policy of selling only GM-free food. The store is selling ...
Marks & Spencer joins Tesco in selling more GMO foods
Marks & Spencer has come under fire for abandoning its policy of selling only GM-free food. The store is selling ...
Food Safety News proposes GMO ‘Right to Know’ label that actually helps consumers
Dan Flynn, the editor of Food Safety News floats a radical idea that could transform the GMO: The right to know ...
McDonald’s mulling embrace of Simplot’s bruise-reducing Innate GMO potato
A healthier, ecologically advanced GMO potato has been cleared, touching off theatrics of opposition by advocacy groups. The success of ...
Marks & Spencer joins Tesco in selling more GMO foods
Marks & Spencer has come under fire for abandoning its policy of selling only GM-free food. The store is selling ...
What’s the difference between a conventional and Simplot potato?
The Innate is, in theory, perfect for food giants that use a lot of potatoes, particularly fast food giants and chip ...
Bill Nye out of the closet: ‘We should stop genetically modifying crops’
Bill Nye recently did a Q&A with reddit and made some claims about GMOs as part of his promotion of his new ...
Biology Fortified: Independent biotech site under attack from mystery anti-GMO activists
Open letter from Biology Fortified (Biofortified.org): We have an unfortunate announcement to make. For about one month, Biology Fortified has ...
Frankenfood: A metaphor that has cursed GMOs
In this radio interview, Australian Broadcasting Radio National asks Mark Lynas and the GLP’s Jon Entine about whether science is ...
Peter Singer on GMOs and the dangers of the European precautionary obsession
Peter Singer is the world’s most prominent and controversial moral philosopher. He talked with Lars Mensel and Max Tholl about ...
If activists really want to avoid GMOs, everyday life would shut down
Since 89% of all corn produced in the United States is genetically engineered, if activists were truly committed to their cause, maybe ...
GMO quiz: Which sugar is conventional, organic or ‘toxic’ GMO?
So which IS the right what? Find your match? ...
GMO farmers guilty until proven innocent: Monsanto to challenge Maui crop ban
A ban on the growing of GMO crops by Maui County voters by a scant 1077 votes—less than .5 percent of the total—will ...
Pamela Ronald: Why GMOs are crucial in an era of global warming
Virginia Gewin, a writer with Beacon Journal, spoke with Pamela Ronald, a rice geneticist at the University of California at ...
Over-regulation of ag biotechnology squanders billions of dollars
The big agribusiness companies have achieved “regulatory capture” of government agencies–but not in the way that many people think. At ...
Food challenges require overhaul of global food system not GMOs
Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform the world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Humans ...
Center for Science in the Public Interest: If you eat these 10 things, you are a bad person
Given its track record of embracing fads and promoting questionable health solutions, it's often better to do exactly the opposite ...
Could genetics convert food crops to perennials, revolutionizing farming?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s a cycle nearly ...
Battered by multiple defeats, GMO label backers vow to continue
Oregon and Colorado became the third and fourth liberal states in the West to reject a GMO labeling measure. A similar ...
Colorado liberal cognescenti reject anti-GMO extremism
Boulder is ... home to several world-renowned scientific organizations, as well as the University of Colorado-Boulder. It’s worth noting that ...
No Love in Boulder for Colorado’s GMO Labeling Proposition
Boulder is ... home to several world-renowned scientific organizations, as well as the University of Colorado-Boulder. It’s worth noting that ...
Plants have sex, and many even have sex chromosomes
Plants have sex? Yes, they totally do. Plants have female reproductive organs (carpels) and male reproductive organs (stamens), but several ...
Organic farming best to address world hunger
This op-ed was written by Anne Lappe, a writer and anti-GMO activist. Her current project, Food MythBusters is a collaborative ...
