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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Dr. Oz again takes on the GMO controversy again—Science or myth?
Celebrity talk show host Dr. Oz has a complicated and controversial relationship with GMOs—demonstrated again with his latest foray into ...
EU rules that honey containing GM pollen will not require a label
The European Parliament has ruled that pollen is a natural constituent of honey and not an ingredient, as anti-GMO forces ...
Activist says GMO crops cause increase pesticide use
My problem with GMOs in plants grown for food is that most manipulation involves making them able to better withstand ...
GMOs are a lot more boring than the scare debate about them suggests
GMOs constrict a debate that really ought to be much broader. Take drought resistance. An almighty rumble has been brewing ...
Anti-GMO farmer debates Monsanto spokesperson
To many foes of GMOs, most definitely including a good number of small farmers, the multinational Monsanto Company, headquartered in ...
More consumers look for ‘Non GMO’ label than for organics
About 19 percent of shoppers look for foods labeled non-GMO, trumping the 16 percent who look for organic labels. For ...
Oregon organic farmers say cross-pollination could endanger their niche crops
Twenty years after the first commercial varieties of genetically modified foods went on sale, farmers have embraced biotech crops that ...
Biofortified analysis: Do GMOs offer nutritional advantages?
As part of Biology Fortified's serious The Promise of GMO's, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs ...
Backdoor effort in Washington State to label, stigmatize GM salmon
House Bill 2143 says consumers have the right to know exactly what kind of fish they are getting thrown at ...
Q: Why are we still shouting about GMOs? A: Because we’re not listening.
Why is it so hard for scientists and the public to agree about the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial backs labeling but not over health concerns
The GMO-free label on Cheerios is an indication that the consumer has won a battle for more information and transparency ...
American Soybean Association joins call for federal GMO labeling solution
The American Soybean Association is urging Congress to seek a federal solution to GMO labeling. Earlier this month, the ASA ...
China insider: Will fear campaigns stop the world’s largest spender on GMO research from utilizing the technology?
China has led the world in government research in developing GM crops, spending billions of dollars in R&D. However, an ...
It’s not easy going ‘non-GMO,’ say US food companies
U.S. food companies are rushing to offer consumers thousands of products free of genetically modified ingredients but are finding the ...
Want your own Frank N. Foode? Kickstarter campaign brings GMO mascot to the masses
Now you can have your own Frank N. Foode--the mascot of the sound science GMO movement--with Biology Fortified's Kickstarter campaign ...
Interactive graphic: Using agricultural technologies for sustainable food security
The International Food Policy Research has developed the Agritech Toolbox, an interactive online tool that demonstrates “how alternative agricultural practices ...
Do GMOs have to end world hunger in order to be desirable crops?
GMOs should not be held to impossible standards or justified with lofty world-saving promises—their proven, real-world value is enough to ...
GMO ban law up for vote in country of Georgia
Living genetically modified organisms will not be freely imported to Georgia and will only be permitted entry if planted in ...
Bad things can happen when food companies listen to anti-GMO activists instead of consumers
In removing genetically modified ingredients from Cheerios, General Mills joins the growing number of companies that are bending, not to ...
Princeton bioethicist/activist Peter Singer makes case to soften opposition to GMOs, Golden Rice
When genetically modified crops were first developed in the 1980’s, there were grounds for caution. Would these crops be safe ...
France passes decree banning planting of GM maize
France has published a decree to prevent the planting of modified maize as a stop-gap measure, while the government works ...
You say potato, I say GMO: Are spuds the next battleground in the GMO debate?
A battle is being waged over a healthier, genetically modified potato that McDonald’s is reportedly exploring. And now, yet another ...
New twist on the China-Viptera GMO corn controversy: Customers are talking—is Syngenta listening?
While China--instigator of a trade war with the US--continues to reject GMO corn exports that contain the Viptera trait, American ...
Will New York have a GMO labeling bill fight?
Labeling food containing genetically modified ingredients might be a federal issue at some point, but the states are not done ...
France, Germany want right to buck European law, ban GM corn
France and Germany are to propose a new European law to allow member states to ban Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) ...
Could the Australian GMO-organic court case lead to global restrictions on biotech farming?
If an organic farmer in Australia is successful for suing over "contamination" from nearby GM crops, it may create a ...
On GMOs, France becoming scientific backwater
France does not walk in the footsteps of Norman Borlaug. Half a century of rising farm productivity has let France ...
