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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More farmers sue Syngenta, political flap over sales of GMO corn to China that it had not approved escalates
Farmers from the biggest U.S. corn-growing states have sued Syngenta AG over sales of genetically modified corn seed not approved ...
Are pesticides responsible for farmer depression, suicides?
On his farm in Iowa, Matt Peters worked from dawn to dusk planting his 1,500 acres of fields with pesticide-treated ...
Norman Borlaug, father of the green revolution
In honor of the World Food Prize, which was inspired by his work, being awarded next week in Iowa, Genetic ...
Can psychology explain strident opposition by some to GMOs?
Strident opponents of crop biotechnology often claim that they can actually taste the difference between foods with genetically modified ingredients ...
Cyanide Frankengrass kills cattle–Or not! Conventional breeding more unpredictable than GMOs
On Sunday there were dozens of reports, including on CBS, that GMO grass about "GMO" grass that killed cattle. It was ...
Consumer acceptance of GMO rubber more likely than of GMO oranges
For crops that are grown in monocultures, especially trees and vines that take years to bear fruit and can't be ...
Chobani seeks non-GMO milk for yogurt, faces supply challenge, high prices
Chobani, the yogurt aisle darling and maven of healthy snacks, is looking to check another box for ingredient-conscious shoppers: non-genetically ...
Turbocharged photosynthesis could turn GMOs into invasive species
A joint team from Cornell University in New York and Rothamsted Research in the UK has successfully replaced a key ...
British farmers union calls for review of insecticide ban as losses mount
The National Farmer's Union of England and Wales (NFU) has called on policymakers to urgently review the evidence showing the ...
Leaked memo highlights new axis of pseudoscience between Dr. Oz and Consumer Reports?
Are Consumer Reports and Dr. Oz teaming up to spread pseudoscience? The GLP has obtained an in house Consumer Reports ...
Let’s play GMO Jeopardy!
In my discussions about GMOs, I've come to the realization that many of the issues that are raised are not ...
National Resource Defense Council reverses course, acknowledges ‘factory farms’ do not overuse antibiotics
Advocacy groups often claim antibiotic use on 'factory farms' is soaring, hurting animals and even humans who are developing resistance ...
Genome Prairie examines challenges of communicating science of agriculture
Agriculture relies upon science and technology to meet demand in an efficient and sustainable manner, but these technological advances are ...
Precautionary principle backfires in Europe, insecticide ban harms bees and farming
An EU pesticide ban that was supposed to protect bees has done no such thing. All it does is damage ...
Will Starbucks bump latte prices to placate anti-GMO protestors?
Anti-GMO organic activists are again fanning fears about genetic modification as part of a campaign to pressure Starbucks to dump ...
Interview: USDA investigation into unapproved GE wheat found in Montana fields
America's Food and Farm radio's Ray Bowman interviews Montana State University spokesman Tracy Ellig and crop consultant Steve Savage about the ...
‘Corporate interests’ making us sick, warping food and medicine policies
Money in politics is making our nation sicker, threatening our national security, and ultimately destroying the very economic prosperity the ...
Interactive map: Oregon GMO labeling campaign – Follow the money!
The Oregonian has published an interactive map detailing the source and size of contributions to both sides in the Measure ...
Bio-engineered yogurt could make colonoscopies obsolete
A spoonful of yogurt could soon offer a cheap and simple way to screen for colorectal cancer. Sangeeta Bhatia, a ...
Enviro groups solicit Congress to pressure EPA to suspend neonic insecticides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is getting pressure from environmental and sustainable agriculture organizations and members of Congress to ...
Top Ten issues more important than labeling GMOs
As a follow up to his list of 4 problems that GMO labeling won't solve, Nathanael Johnson of the environmental ...
Quarantine expanded as killer bacterium spreads to California orange groves, GMO only hope
As California officials add another 100 square miles of citrus groves to a 1,000 square mile quarantine, Florida growers are ...
Interview: Vandana Shiva responds to New Yorker profile
Correspondent Fedrico Rampini interviews Vandana Shiva for the Italian newspaper Repubblica, in the wake of the controversy surrounding the profile ...
Food Hunk challenges Foodbabe and other anti-GMO activists
Early this September I attended the National Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa. It’s an event that’s centered around the pure ...
Eugene, Oregon editorial: GMO labeling would provide information consumers want
Since 2002, concern about GMO products has gained traction across Oregon. Earlier this year, voters in two rural, conservative counties ...
Are Ebola drug researchers developing ‘death drugs’ that could wipe out humanity? Yes, by logic of anti-GMOers
It's perplexing that strident anti-GMO critics who regularly harp on the "danger" of harvesting a "foreign" gene from one species ...
4 concerns mandatory GMO labels don’t address
This election season, there are initiatives on the ballot in Colorado and Oregon to label foods made with the help ...
