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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UK Scientists call for new GM crop trials
A new report on genetically modified (GM) crops, commissioned by the prime minister, calls for more UK field trials and ...
How genetic engineering can save the iconic American Chestnut tree
An estimated 3 billion to 6 billion American chestnut trees once covered forests spreading from southern Mississippi to central Maine ...
GMO war of words: On “contamination”
The use of the word "contamination", as used by organic farmers worried about GM crops invading their fields from neighboring ...
Q&A with Mark Lynas on GMOs
January 2013, amid a chorus of controversy, Mark Lynas—high profile environmental writer, activist, and researcher—publicly renounced and apologized for his ...
Q&A with Mark Lynas on GMOs
January 2013, amid a chorus of controversy, Mark Lynas—high profile environmental writer, activist, and researcher—publicly renounced and apologized for his ...
Q&A with Mark Lynas on GMOs
January 2013, amid a chorus of controversy, Mark Lynas—high profile environmental writer, activist, and researcher—publicly renounced and apologized for his ...
I grow GMOs, and I’m not ashamed or embarrassed
Yesterday, I testified before the Maryland State Senate Committee on Education, Health, and Environmental Affairs Committee. I was speaking against SB778 "Genetically ...
France bans GM maize
France's agriculture ministry on Saturday banned the sale, use and cultivation of Monsanto's MON 810 genetically modified maize, the only ...
GMO food is safe, labeled or not
I am the dean of the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. I tell all our research ...
Consumers and GMOs: Adrift in a sea of misinformation
Last month, I had the opportunity to present to a group of registered dietitians and nutritionists at the Alberta Milk ...
Challenge highlights flaws in Hawaii’s anti-GMO law
Last week a Hawaii state judge issued an injunction halting enforcement of a key component of a new anti-GMO law. The judge ...
China decreases GM research funding
Chinese research funding into genetically modified organisms (GMO) has fallen by 80 percent in the past four years, according to ...
New GMO labeling bill proposed for California
Back when Prop 37 was voted down by California residents in 2012, it felt like a missed opportunity. Here was ...
Cornell Prof Davies dismantles claims in Hawaii that GMO crops are a “pesticide centered technology”
A subtle shift has occurred in the tactics of anti-GMO campaigners in Hawaii. As they began losing the science argument ...
Rootworm are evolving to resist GM Bt corn developed to kill it
Crop mismanagement may lead to rapid rootworm resistance to Bt corn, according to a study published in the Proceedings of ...
Observer UK editorial board endorses jumpstarting GM crops
Feeding the swelling numbers of people on our planet is one of the most serious challenges facing our leaders today ...
Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice opponents should be held accountable for health problems
By 2002, Golden Rice was technically ready to go. Animal testing had found no health risks. Syngenta, which had figured out how ...
General Mills turns to ‘Raja Of The Country Of World Peace’ to certify its costlier, non-GMO Cheerios
Recently, cereal makers General Mills and Post announced that they had reformulated their flagship brands (Cheerios and Grape Nuts, respectively) to avoid ...
GMO and Indian farmer suicide backgrounder
The claim that the introduction of GM crops in India has caused an increase in farmer suicides was not based ...
Bionic plants developed at MIT focus on the “tech” half of biotech
Researchers at MIT have enhanced plants' abilities using nanomaterials, specifically carbon nanotubes. The cyborg plants can perform supercharged photosynthesis or ...
Rejecting GMOs and supporting small-scale organic farming is a cheap vote winner but it’s not sustainable
The increase in global food supplies has been largely achieved through massive expansion of land cultivation. That's not sustainable. Rejecting ...
If Seralini’s study is valid, he should be able to publish it in legit journal
The 2012 work by Seralini et al has long been retracted, and months later friends and admirers of Prof Seralini still ...
‘Precautionary Principle’ justifies GMO bans, restrictions
If you want to know where someone stands on health and environment there can be few better barometers than their ...
Here is what GMO labels could cost consumers
The question of whether to require labels on food with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) pits activists and consumers who favor ...
God Move Over (GMO)
Scanning the web for slogans and catch-phrases that slur biotech crops rouses the usual suspects: “frankenfoods,” “our kids are not ...
Taiwan passes new GMO labeling restrictions
Taiwan’s government recently passed a law, which when implemented, will set some new tolerance regulations for food containing genetically modified ...
It’s a state-by-state battle for GMO label advocates
The issue of labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients has taken hold in states around the country, and more ...
