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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First avian pollinator discovered: 47 million years old
The discovery, uncovered in Germany's fossil-rich Messel Pit, reveals a three-inch-long (eight-centimeter) bird—about the size of a hummingbird you see ...
Voters targeted Monsanto, Syngenta in Oregon GM crop bans but hit farmer neighbors instead
Voters in Jackson and Josephine counties banned genetically engineered plants last week. It's not entirely wrong to consider the result a victory ...
Marsh v Baxter case tested organic certification standards in Western Australia and showed they must change
A biotechnology scientist says organic certification bodies need to relax their rules and be “more realistic” about the presence of ...
GMO, non-GMO, conventional, organic? Clearer terms needed to limit misleading ads and labeling
Today a very high percentage of livestock feed and processed food for human consumption is produced from transgenic modified seed ...
Zimbabweans have consumed GMOs safely for a decade, contrary to minister’s claims
A few days ago, NewZimbabwe.com published an article entitled "GMOs remain banned in Zim, Made" in which the Agriculture, Mechanisation ...
Western Australia court ruling highlights need for law reform to include ‘biotrespass’
The supreme court of Western Australia handed down a landmark decision yesterday, on genetically modified crop liability. The ruling in Marsh ...
California lawmakers reject GMO-labeling bill for second time in two years
California lawmakers on Wednesday rejected a bill that would require labels on foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the ...
Turkish government denies changing regulations to permit sale of food products containing up to 0.9 percent GM ingredients
A change made to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry regulations now permits the production and sale of ...
Vermont’s GMO-labeling bill success was not about ‘right-to-know’ but clear vote against conventional agriculture
The incredible success of the GMO labeling bill was in actuality not about the “right to know” what is in ...
GMO opposition is fierce, but not much of it based on science
A more sober assessment of the public GMO debate reveals that it's not really about the science of the safety ...
Cultural divide deepens in Oregon as GMO bans signal Portlandia-fication of farming
Jackson county's new ban on most GMO crops has deepened a cultural chasm in the greater Rogue Valley and Oregon ...
Video: GLP’s Entine challenges Consumer Reports anti-GMO (anti-consumer?) stance on FOX’s Stossel
Almost 90 percent of all corn and soybeans in the United States are grown from seeds that were genetically modified. GM research has now ...
Danger in food scares over GMOs almost never real, but fear itself kills
It's easy to scare people about what's in their food, but the danger is almost never real. And the fear ...
Congressional briefing raises concerns about new GMO crops with 2,4-D herbicide resistance
The next argument over genetically engineered crops has arrived with Dow AgroScience’s bid to gain federal approval for soybean and ...
Fear sells and Academics Review uses it too in misleading attack on organic marketing
Academics Review recently released a searing attack on the organic industry, claiming it has gained market share by promoting fear ...
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter’s win a big step forward for co-existence between organic, GM crops
The Western Australia Supreme Court’s decision to award Kojonup GM canola farmer Michael Baxter victory over his organic farming neighbour ...
3000 rice genomes released into public domain to boost food production
As a step toward boosting rice production to meet a projected 25 percent increase in demand by 2030, researchers from three Asian ...
GM wheat–Is the potential being overstated as some scientists claim?
My colleague (and chief wheat breeder) at Oklahoma State University was recently interviewed by Ag Journal, and he expressed reservations about GMO wheat ...
VIDEO: Maui mayor neutral on law to restrict GMOs
Maui Mayor Alan Arakawa is keeping a neutral stance on the GMO debate as a petition has surfaced seeking a ...
Senior Chinese official: GMO ‘cutting-edge global technology’ despite criticism
A stream of public criticism from retired military officials against China’s rising engagement with genetically modified food doesn’t amount to ...
Demand to “prove” safety of GMOs is scientifically absurd
The latest discussions (debates? arguments? long drawn-out 140-character battles?) have related to the safety of GMOs. Without exception, the argument from ...
Role of biotechnology in global food security cannot be dismissed for ideological reasons
Biotechnology sceptics have a right to question the role of biotechnology in global food security. But they are wrong to ignore ...
Information about GMOs missing on food labels
The Food and Drug Administration does not require clear identification and labeling of food products made with genetically engineered plants ...
GMO ban organizers in Jackson, Oregon now pushing for broader labeling measure
Many said our victory was impossible. They said the out-of-state chemical corporations would use their money to twist the truth ...
Monsanto’s ‘evil’ practices touted by anti-GMO campaigners are business norms
Let’s try to unravel a little bit about this Monsanto business. The rabid fervor it has managed to inspire in ...
Chicken Coop project traces genetics, history of multi-talented domestic chicken
Who cares how the chicken crossed the road; the intriguing question is now did it become such a multi-tasker. Nature's ...
In landmark case, Australian court rejects organic farmer’s claim of GMO “contamination”
Western Australian Supreme Court Justice ruled that organic farmer Steve Marsh lost his organic certification because of the Australian organic ...
