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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How to concoct a conspiracy theory about vaccines, GMOs, climate science and other controversial issues
A case study. 1. Find something online that is related to your subject. 2. Cherry-pick partial quotes that seem to support your position (here, ...
5 Surprises in the USDA’s study of GE crops
The USDA's study of genetically engineered crops in the United States is a pretty dry and unsurprising document, but when read ...
Middle schoolers say, “Of course GMOs are not harmful, but maybe…”
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Video: Mark Lynas says, “GMOs are green”
Mark Lynas, a UK-based environmentalist and former anti-biotech activist, spoke to Real Agriculture editor Lyndsey Smith before giving the keynote address at ...
USDA report says GM crops show mix of benefits, concerns
After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, ...
Maui citizens group pushes for GMO moratorium
Come November, the citizens of Maui County could be voting on a temporary suspension of all genetically modified crop production ...
How should Congress and the FDA respond to calls to label foods with GMOs?
According to Henry Miller, a physician and the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA, and Drew ...
GMO 2.0: New generation of blight-resistant foods
Blight-resistant vegetables could be great for farmers, as well as for the environment. Potatoes are sprayed against blight up to ...
Southern sugar cane industry, threatened by deadly fungus, look to GMO solution
Brown rust fungus poses a serious threat to Louisiana's nearly $1 billion sugarcane industry. Thanks to funding from the American ...
Whole Foods under microscope for promoting pseudoscience on GMOs, health
A significant portion of what Whole Foods sells is based on simple pseudoscience. And sometimes that can spill over into ...
European scientists on African mission to break biotech logjam
Africa is expected to be the next target of GM food companies, as European scientists and policymakers travel to Ethiopia ...
I said Syngenta wasn’t listening to farmers about GMO corn—Maybe I was wrong
Syngenta took exception to a couple of issues that raised on this site and responded to the question on if ...
The promise of GMOs evaluated: Herbicides
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
The Promise of GMOs: Do GM crops encourage conservation tillage?
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
Cereals reformulated to be non-GMO less nutritious than GMO versions
Post Foods’ new non-GMO Grape Nuts no longer include vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin B12 or vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), while ...
Agricultural scientist Steve Savage: Am I A “Shill For Big Ag?
Because I blog, speak, and comment in support of various agricultural technologies, I am routinely accused of being a "shill ...
Green’s GM war costing millions of lives
The Soil Association (SA), Britain's foremost organic food organization, is indirectly responsible for the deaths of millions of children because ...
More risk from conventional breeding than with genetic modification
Fred Gould, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, used Lenape potatoes as an example of risk and uncertainty. Often, people frame ...
He said/She said: Are GMO “secrets” just inconvenient truths?
Well know activist-author Robyn O'Brien's recent post on the Huffington Post's Food for Thought blog, slams GMOs in nine points ...
German pro-biotech group slams EU for allowing member steps to block planting of GMO crops
The EU Commission is about to approve a GM maize but is poised to allow a controversial opt-out option for ...
The Promise of GMOs: Removing cancer causing mycotoxins from our food supply
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
General Mills says GMO Cheerios not boosting sales, ‘no’ to formulating more GMO free products
Ken Powell, the chairman and chief executive officer of General Mills, Inc. has a simple answer for anyone wondering if ...
Hungarian government opposes GMO corn
The Hungarian government will continue taking all measures necessary to prevent the growing of DuPont Pioneer 1507 genetically modified (GMO) ...
Genetically altered barley could boost Scotland’s whisky industry
Scientists are planning genetically to alter barley in a bid to boost Scotland’s whisky industry. Barley is a key ingredient ...
Sorry Greenpeace, Golden Rice is a win for nutrition and health
Greenpeace’s stand on golden rice is rather cynical and their article in support of their position offers bad science. It ...
Sampling of leading chefs skeptical about genetically modified foods
As part of the Daily Meal's special report on GMOs, the website asked seven leading chefs, including Floyd Cardoz, Frank ...
Evaluating competing claims about genetically modified crops
The arguments for and against GMOs began at the technology's inception, in the 1980s, and have changed little since. But ...
