Crops & 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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Natural News advocates eco-terrorism against GE sugar beets
The following is an edited excerpt. It appears as though some Americans may finally be waking up to the grim ...
South Korea to decide on U.S. wheat imports this week
The following is an edited excerpt. South Korean millers will decide this week whether to lift a ban on U.S ...
GE comes to the fashion world
The following is an edited excerpt. 'Genetically modified' (GM) has been associated for a long time with food. Now scientists ...
Anti-biotech activists would let Hawaiian papaya go the way of the Dodo
In the 80s, Hawaii's papaya crop was almost wiped out by the ringspot virus. Today the crop thrives because most ...
Are egg and milk allergies linked to GE foods? Scientists answer
The following is an edited excerpt. With food allergies on the rise, there's no shortage of concern about what is ...
Farmers weigh in on GE crops, part four
The following is an edited excerpt 4. Do you see GM seed in your sustainable farming future? Even if you’re ...
Be a good kid and eat your GE vegetables
The following is an edited excerpt. Foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) are called a lot of things, but ...
GMOs in Italian artisan foods: Traditions impacted by biotech?
The following is an edited excerpt. Parmesan cheese and other beloved Italian food exports give the issue of genetically modified ...
Qatar: Pioneering genetic research on date palms
The following is an edited excerpt. Pioneering genetic research on date palms is progressing at the Qatar University Farm, located ...
Some sanity on genetically engineered foods
The following is an edited excerpt. Will wonders never cease? The British newspaper The Guardian has reported the sobering news ...
Nature commentary: Europe losing ground in GM crop science
The EU must regulate GM plant varieties with sound science or risk losing ground in the race to grow more ...
Iowa farmer: GE and science will heal the earth
The following is an edited excerpt. Despite two decades of planting GMOs that hasn’t inflicted a single human illness, has ...
China approves Monsanto’s drought-tolerant trait
The following is an edited excerpt. The drought tolerance trait in Monsanto’s DroughtGard® hybrids recently received final import approval from ...
Who’s polarizing the GE debate? Greenpeace
The following is an edited excerpt. I love this piece in the Guardian about GMOs, I really do. It’s so ...
Geneticists compare genomes of wild and domestic tomatoes
The following is an edited excerpt. You say tomato, I say comparative transcriptomics. Researchers in the U.S., Europe and Japan ...
A geneticist attempts to replicate the famed “stunning corn” study
Anti-GM crusaders don't really want independent replication, that would expose their lack of evidence ...
Be a good kid and eat your GM vegetables
The following is an excerpt. Foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMO) are called a lot of things, but “healthier” ...
Ag biotech offers ‘significant economic and environmental gains’ to Ukraine
The following is an edited excerpt. A new assessment of the potential impacts of using existing commercialised crop biotechnology in ...
Choice of Monsanto betrays World Food Prize purpose
The following is an edited excerpt. In honoring the seed biotechnology industry, this year's World Food Prize -- to many, ...
Genetic modification could stop wheat rust epidemic
The following is an edited excerpt. Sr35 has been identified as a gene that enables resistance to a new race, or ...
GE seafood: Love it or hate, you gotta label it
The following is an edited excerpt. Whether genetically modified (GM) seafood ever makes its way into your favorite U.S. fish ...
UK Deputy Prime Minister: We should be cautious about GM food
The following is an edited excerpt. Nick Clegg, the deputy Prime Minister, said he had not "knowingly" fed his children ...
Uganda: University ag lecturer lobbies against country’s biotech bill
The following is an edited excerpt. For Uganda to embrace Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) is a recipe for disaster for ...
Coffee in crisis: Transgenics to the rescue?
Central American coffee production is on red alert because of the coffee rust fungus. We need transgenics to create resistant, ...
Genetically modified RNA scare seems bogus
A molecule as unstable as RNA likely couldn't even make it past our digestive system ...
Illinois: State senate hears testimony on GE Labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. A full house of over 250 people heard the first of three Illinois Senate ...
Fear and loathing of GE at the Los Angeles Times
The following is an edited excerpt. There’s plenty of inaccurate, misleading and ungrammatical information on the Internet, of course, but ...
