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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India’s rice industry says GMO rice trials would damage export prospects
India's rice exporters have expressed concern over allowing large-scale field trials of the crop's genetically modified (GM) version, saying it ...
Federal GMO label: Conspiracy for activists, science-based for industry
Industry groups described Rep. Mike Pompeo's Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2014 as "science-based" while anti-GMO activists play ...
Claim that most countries other than US ban GMOs myth debunked
Have you heard the line about GMOs being banned in all other countries? It's the old argument that if every ...
10 realizations to change thinking about GMOs
When I first started learning about GMOs, my model was trans fats and vitamin supplements. We thought that we could ...
Why embracing the “unnatural” can help us improve on—and preserve—nature
Can we improve on nature? Yes, argues agronomist Andrew McGuire, but he's only talking about farming. I take his argument ...
Food industry claim New York’s GMO labeling bill would cost consumers
Legislation is pending before the state Legislature to require GMO labeling on all food products. Sound reasonable? Maybe, but not ...
Maui anti-GMO campaigners petition with 9,500 signatures, pro-GMO groups hold their ground
A total of 9,500 signatures were submitted to the county on Monday as part of a petition calling for the ...
Bill introduced in US Congress that would block mandatory GMO food labeling by states
State efforts to label genetically-modified food would be outlawed under a bill unveiled by a Kansas congressman Wednesday – a ...
Vitamin A-deficient children need Golden Rice now, everything else is noise
There is a need for what Golden Rice can deliver: vitamin A. According to the World Health Organization an estimated ...
No logic in giving up GMO food production for organic
So what is “organic,” really? To look at this question, it can be easier to start with what is not ...
Stine Seed flies under media radar but is patent backbone of biotech industry
Few outside of the biotech industry know Stine Seed Farm, a plant breeding and biotechnology group that develops germplasm for ...
Maui protestors fear GMOs and chemicals except when it’s not convenient
Last week Sunday was yet another march against biotechnology on Maui. There were quite a bit of pictures and videos ...
Simplot discusses GE potato that doesn’t brown or produce cancer-causing acrylamide
Biology Fortified sent Simplot some questions about their GE Simplot potato that doesn’t brown when cut or fried, nor does ...
‘Green gene’ movement can blend genetic engineering and organic practices
While most people treat genetic engineering and organic agriculture as worlds apart, the green gene movement is trying to think ...
Anti-GMO activists in Bangladesh caught lying about ‘failed’ Bt eggplant farms
Recently, the Financial Express in Bangladesh published a news article entitled ‘Pest-resistant Bt Brinjal comes under pest attack’, claiming that ...
Top GMO question consumers want answered: Do GMOs cause cancer?
It is telling that some consumers are most worried about cancer-causing GMOs when scientific evidence has pointed strongly otherwise: No, ...
Greener paper through genetically engineered trees
Genetically engineered trees are easier to process into pulp, making tree farming less resource-intensive. The same techniques could be adapted ...
Video: Cargill says mandatory GMO-labeling is ‘long-term mistake’
Cargill executive chairman Gregory Page discussed the impact of global warming on the nation’s food supply, rising food prices and ...
Average Joe’s take on the GMO controversy: How to evaluate conflicting claims
GMO Skepti-Forum has begun featuring essays by readers on the GMO controversy. We're going to be featuring some of them ...
Secretary of Agriculture backs GMOs, farming ‘collaboration’ in House hearing
The topic of genetically modified food has come up in a handful of hearings lately, and the message from this ...
Does the Union of Concerned Scientists’s Doug Gurian-Sherman misrepresent GMOs?
Do advances in conventional breeding make genetic engineering unnecessary? That's the controversial claim by Union of Concerned Scientist's Doug Gurian-Sherman, ...
View from an Iowa farm: Anti-GMO professor tries to brainwash students against modern farming
A University Of Northern Iowa (UNI) instructor invited two professors to engage in an exercise analyzing arguments for and against ...
India set to approve GM jute, second biotech crop after cotton
India is likely to see commercialization of genetically modified (GM) jute in a month. Developed by the Kolkata University, GM ...
Vermont’s GMO-labeling law should be considered more carefully
The decision by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in Vermont to pass a bill requiring labels on foods made ...
Vermont legislators confident of GMO-labeling bill
Legislation that would make Vermont the first state in the country to require the labeling of food products that contain ...
GM food just the latest chapter in 10,000 years of high-tech agriculture
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) were introduced commercially for agriculture in the United States in the mid 1990s. Anti-GMO activists and ...
How anti-biotech groups leveraged fear of pesticides to pass Kauai anti-GMO bill
The feast of fear that was intentionally served up to pass Bill 2491, the pesticide/GMO regulatory bill, is now serving ...
