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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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 ...
How to win people’s hearts and minds for GE farming
The following is an edited excerpt. In a carefully crafted speech, UK environment minister Owen Paterson announced that the government ...
Mark Bittman criticizes choice of GE pioneers for World Food Prize
The following is an edited excerpt. If Secretary of State John Kerry’s G.M.O.-boosting speech announcing the World Food Prize at ...
Alleged danger of GE not looking very real
The following is an edited excerpt. Once upon a time, a food writer triggered a storm of scientific scorn when ...
UK: Tesco accused of ‘breaking promises’ on GM feed
The following is an edited excerpt. Anti-GM group GM Freeze have accused Tesco of breaking a promise to phase out ...
Who really deserves a food prize?
Food writer Mark Bittman argues against the biotech-focused winners of this years World Food Prize ...
GE critics seriously exaggerate and misrepresent the level of industry funding
The following is an edited excerpt. Speaking on Radio 4’s PM about Owen Patterson’s GM speech last week, food campaigner ...
Italian minister wants ban on GE foods
The following is an edited excerpt. The Italian agriculture minister has said she wants to create a ban in Italy ...
FBI investigates GM sugar beet destruction in Oregon
The following is an edited excerpt. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to solve who destroyed fields of genetically ...
The future of Iowa agriculture: Genetic engineering
The following is an edited excerpt. I grew up on a small — by today’s standards — dairy farm in ...
What have the human nutrition studies on Golden Rice shown?
The following is an edited excerpt. Human nutrition studies help us understand how well the beta carotene in Golden Rice ...
FDA: All genetically modified crops are safe and nutritious as conventional crops
According to the FDA: "All food derived from GM crops in the market have met international food safety standards and ...
Italy: Agriculture minister wants GMOs banned
Italian ag minister wants to ban the cultivation of GMOs, with with backing from the Italian health and environment ministers ...
Oregon: Genetically modified crops vandalized
Some 6,500 GM plants have been destroyed by "eco-activists" in Oregon since the beginning of the month ...
GE misconceptions, risks, and rewards, one Cornell scientist’s take
The following is an edited excerpt. GE crops have been in American fields and grocery stores for more than a ...
David Tribe: New EU GE legislation has no scientific justification for mandatory animal feeding trials
The following is an edited excerpt. This commentary focuses on the potential added value of and need for (sub)-chronic testing ...
Stop GM and you’ll watch people die
The following is an edited excerpt. In the 1950s, Norman Borlaug introduced new genes into wheat and rice that increased ...
Zimbabwe: Call to raise awareness of biotech issues
The following is an edited excerpt. Local scientists and scientific institutions must take practical steps to improve their communication skills ...
FDA assures safety of GM food products in market in Phillipines
The following is an edited excerpt. FDA Director General Kenneth Hartigan Go said those GM foods have passed food safety ...
Professor Parrott gives GE-fed pig study an F
The following is an edited excerpt. Paper: GE-fed pigs have irritated stomachs and thicker uteruses Grade: F Why does this ...
Australian Supreme Court refuses GM injunction
The Supreme Court has refused to grant an injunction preventing Western Australian farmer Mike Baxter from planting genetically modified (GM) ...
GE sugar beets destroyed in ‘sabotage’ at Oregon plots
The following is an edited excerpt. Genetically modified sugar beets from two fields in Southern Oregon’s Jackson County were destroyed ...
GE Fashion: Scientists engineer silkworms to produce fluorescent fabrics
The following is an edited excerpt. Researchers have genetically engineered silkworms to produce colored fluorescent silks, which are starting to ...
Canada: Stomach trouble disputed in GE hog feed study
The following is an edited excerpt. The colour of a slaughtered hog’s stomach lining shouldn’t be taken as a sign ...
Speedy soybean approvals revive fears in China about GE food
The following is an edited excerpt. The Ministry of Agriculture's recent approval of imports of three new kinds of genetically ...
A Filipino mother and farmer wants to place GE eggplant on her table
The following is an edited excerpt. Do judges know better than mothers what their children should eat? In the Philippines, apparently ...
McDonald’s to decide on GE fries
The following is an edited excerpt. McDonald's has been mixing up its menu recently in an attempt to combat falling ...
