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 opponents worry Big Six ag companies monopolize global food supply
What the next chapter in the evolution of agriculture has produced, is something akin to the pharmaceuticalization of food. Six ...
Photographic romance of GMO breeding
The genetic modification of foods is not the sort of topic that inspires ambivalence. When photographer Murray Ballard first visited the John ...
East African plant project targets tackle climate change, pests and diseases.
East African crop scientists have embarked on a five-year project to conserve indigenous plant genetic resources to improve food security ...
Unapproved GMO wheat again found, this time in Montana
Unregulated genetically modified wheat has popped up at a Montana research facility east of Billings, the U.S. Agriculture Department said ...
New generation Kansas Christian farm family addresses GMO truths and myths
Now, some of you may think you know a lot about GMOs. Others may have no idea what I am ...
Former Colorado ag commish: Vote ‘No’ on Colorado GMO labeling law
Colorado voters are faced with an important decision on the November 2014 ballot. As a former Colorado commissioner of agriculture, ...
GMO farming abject “failure” claims Center for Food Safety–Is it?
The Center for Food Safety makes the case that GMO crops have "failed", citing "myths" circulated by proponents. Specifically they ...
GMO eggplant may unlock Asian food revolution, cut pesticide use, farmer deaths
The humble aubergine – you might call it eggplant or brinjal – may be about to unlock a food revolution ...
Deconstructing Dr. Oz misrepresentations on pesticide exposure danger
Andrew Kniss, a scientist with an expertise in pesticides and weed control, addressed a segment on the Dr. Oz show in ...
Answers for home gardeners about GMOs
I would like to clear up for home gardeners: there are no GMO home vegetable seeds available now, and there ...
PBS’s John Hockenberry challenges Vandana Shiva on GMO misstatements
The Takeaway host John Hockenberry interviews anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva on Monsanto, Bt cotton and global trade, pesticide use, farmer ...
90% of India cotton farmers use biotech, need unified voice
The Hindu BusinessLine speaks with Shilpa Divekar Nirula, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of farm input company Monsanto’s ...
National Academy of Sciences releases videos of GMO panel presentations, schedules public webinar
The National Academy of Sciences' has posted videos of the presentations and discussions from the September 15-16 genetically engineered crop ...
Mainstream consumers don’t appear concerned about GMOs
It’s starting to look like the average eater doesn’t care about GMOs. At the very beginning of 2014, General Mills ...
Organic food can cure autism caused by GMOs? More ‘quack science’ from Dr. Oz
Dr. Oz, who was recently reprimanded in Congress for his increasingly bizarre endorsements of crank cures and alternative nostrums, stumbled ...
General Mills shareholders reject proposal to dump GM foods
General Mills Inc. has made strong commitments this year to natural and organic foods. It took genetically modified ingredients out ...
Oregon GMO label advocates release first TV ads
The Yes on 92 campaign, the largest proponent of Oregon’s labeling measure, launched its first two ads on September 23. The ...
Will EU countries be allowed to opt out of approved biotech crops?
After four years of uncertainty, an EU Commission proposal to permit individual countries to opt out of allowing the planting ...
GMO cotton has transformed India into world’s largest cotton exporter
India’s cotton economy has undergone a radical and unheralded transformation over the past decade. From being a net importer of ...
Monsanto chief scientist Rob Fraley backs national GMO-free law, defends patenting
Radio host John Hockenberry interviews Monsanto chief technology officer Rob Fraley on GMO labeling, feeding the world, neocotinoids and honeybees, ...
Farmer asks, Why are scientists sitting on the sidelines in the GMO debate?
It's perhaps too easy to laugh off the whole GMO issue: the opponents so over the top, the proponents, including ...
Agent Orange redux? Dr. Oz called out for fear-mongering on newest GMO products
Dr. Oz, infamous for his promotion of alternative medicine remedies and organic foods, and for his scaring people about chemical ...
9 most asked questions about GMOs: University of Florida’s Kevin Folta answers
The Refinery 29 has collected the most asked questions about GMOs from their readers and asked University of Florida plant ...
Cannabis DNA mapping could lead to more consistent “highs”
Nine months ago, Mowgli Holmes, 42, started Phylos Bioscience in Southwest Portland with entrepreneur Nishan Karassik, 44, with the aim ...
Dr. Bronner pumps in money to pass Oregon mandatory labeling campaign
The most expensive food fight in Oregon history is just getting interesting, and David Bronner is smack in the middle ...
As state GMO labeling laws are proposed, critics wonder about logistics and costs
With a mandatory GMO label law recently passed in Vermont, and more in the hopper, scientists and the food and ...
Start genetic literacy young: Take your family to “Unlocking Life’s Code” touring exhibit
“Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” is an initiative of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) and the National Human Genome ...
