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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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 ...
Genetic basis for Monarch butterfly’s migration uncovered
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Crop breakthrough! No GMOs! Let’s celebrate!–Why advanced farm technology scares us
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Whole Earth’s Stewart Brand says consumer embrace of ‘healthier’ GM foods inevitable
Picture a parent roaming the supermarket aisles in 2050, scanning labels carefully for the all-important words “genetically modified ingredients”—to make ...
As Nigerian population explodes, GMOs languish in political purgatory
Officials of the Nigerian Society for Microbiology (NSM) have alerted the Federal Government to brace up to the challenge of ...
New UN food czar: Need small farms, not ‘industrial ag’ to feed the world
Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises ...
Synthetic biology’s revolutionary and often disquieting impact on our food system
Synbio brings with it new social, ethical and regulatory concerns. The next generation will bring nearly miraculous advances in medicine ...
Story of Darwinian evolution, as told by coffee plants
Charles Darwin did a fine job of showing why his theory of evolution explained the living world better than any ...
Video: Colorado farmers divided over GMO labeling bill
The Palisade and Grand Junction Chambers of Commerce have both come out in opposition to proposition 105, citing the negative ...
Critics say new multi herbicide resistant GMO crops will exacerbate ‘superweed’ problem
Move over, Roundup Ready crops. After gaining USDA approval last week, new generation of genetically modified corn and soybeans is ...
US subsidizes $125 million of organic farming research and conservation
The United States Department of Agriculture plans to announce that it will spend $52 million to support local and regional ...
California hippie engages battle on behalf of GMOs
While many anti-GMO folk support the scientific consensus on climate change, they belittle these same science institutions by denying the ...
Kenyan farmer wants the best crop tech for Africa
To many people around the world, the cassava is an exotic crop that they have never eaten. Or so they ...
Tenderer meat? More nutritious milk? Genome editing targets improving livestock
Scientists are developing a new technology called genome editing they believe will revitalize the concept of genetically modified livestock since ...
War of the advertising airwaves underway in Oregon GMO labeling fight
In a TV ad paid for by advocates of labeling genetically modified foods in Oregon, voters are told 64 countries ...
GMO ‘steak chips’: Replacing slaughterhouses with genetically engineered meat
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Beijing kicks off campaign to improve GMOs image in China
China's government has kicked off a media campaign in support of genetically modified crops, as it battles a wave of ...
African scientists engineering genetically modified livestock vaccines
Agricultural scientists in different parts of Africa have been engaged in application of biotechnology mainly for developing improved crop varieties ...
Are there better alternatives than genetic engineering to develop drought resistant crops?
In the late-1990s, scientists Russell Rodriguez and Regina Redman were conducting research in Yellowstone National Park when they made a ...
Consumer Reports finds GMOs in Xochitl ‘Non GMO’ corn chips, spreads anti-bio misinformation
Consumer Reports finds genetically engineered corn in "natural" junk food labeled "No GMO"—and in the process spreads unnecessary fear about ...
Video: Mashable website tackles 4 common myths about GMOs
The popular website Mashable has a crisp video presentation on 4 Myths About GMOs. The four they tackle: Myth 1: ...
Do patents limit GMO research and farmers choice? Only a little
A 1980 Supreme Court decision that allowed patents to be granted to living things kicked off a controversy. The basic ...
Flipping the Anti-GMO arguments
A closer look at the claims made by Center for Food Safety. Do you agree? ...
Anti-GMO activists hope floodgates will open if Oregon passes labeling law
Is this the year that voters will finally insist on knowing which supermarket foods contain genetically modified organisms? Activists in ...
Colorado GMO label battle pit chefs against farmers
With the Nov. 4, 2014, ballot measure, Colorado is at the forefront of a fierce food fight raging across the ...
Podcast: UC-Davis’ Van Eenennaam on health impact of GMO crops on humans and animals
University of California-Davis animal biotechnology professor Alison Van Eenennaam, author of recent research published in the Journal of Animal Science [NOTE: article behind paywall ...
GMO crops produce poisonous gut E. Coli? Many faces of an important bacterium
Could a mutated form of E. Coli resulting from the cloning process used in creating GMOs get into the gut ...
