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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Language can have significant effects on the perception of GMOs
Language is a powerful tool for influencing the public's perception of an issue. Words like "Frankenfood" and "genetically modified" have ...
Hawaii County council keeps anti-GMO bill alive
Hawaii County Council met on Monday in an eight-hour discussion regarding two anti-GMO bills, hearing from scientists and other professionals ...
Righteous condemnation of ‘anti-science’ bias won’t change minds of GMO critics
The ABC recently reported that 400 people in the Philippines trampled vitamin-enriched “golden rice” trial crops because of fears to human health ...
Anti-GMOers in Hawaii rely on steady diet of vicious scare mongering
The Hawaii GMO Justice Coalition is an interesting Facebook page full of the A’ole GMO websites, scare mongering memes, Evict ...
Organic agriculture cannot feed the world
We’ve written before that, despite organic activists’ claims to the contrary, conventional agriculture (a.k.a. non-organic) is the only way to ...
Washington State: Near-record funds are fueling GMO labeling campaign
Both sides of the GMO labeling campaign in Washington State have seen near-record donations from businesses and individual donors ...
“Monsanto Protection Act” extended by U.S. House vote
The U.S. House has voted to extend Section 735 on GM crops. A coalition of anti-GM groups has asked the ...
Reddit takes on Jeremy Seifert’s “GMO OMG” film
Much of the web-based scientific community has not taken well to "GMO OMG" director Jeremy Seifert's recent crusade of self-promotion ...
Enough known to prove GM foods are safe, claims European Commission’s chief scientific adviser
Describing the rejection of GM foods as a “form of madness I don’t understand,” the European Commission’s chief scientific adviser, ...
Modified brinjal given go-ahead
The High Court on Monday cleared the way for the government to release the genetically modified (GM) crop – Bt ...
Genetically modified rice brings benefit to wild neighbors
Rice containing a transgenic modification that makes it resistant to a common herbicide can pass that genetic trait to weedy ...
Ghana begins testing for GM cotton production
The western African country of Ghana has begun testing four genetically modified (GM) crops, including cotton, for commercial production. The ...
Auckland Council at odds with government on stricter GM rules
Auckland Council and the Government are on a collision course over rules for genetically modified crops after councillors decided to ...
The Italian job: Farmers facing pests pay dearly for Europe’s anti-GM stance
Despite insect infestation threatening their crops, Italy recently became the ninth country in the EU to eliminate the possibility of ...
GMO labels proposed in Washington “bewilder more than explain”
Prior to November's I-522 vote to label GM foods, the campaigns have released television advertisements showing real-life labels. The labels, ...
Campaigns against vaccination, GMOs reflect similar biases
The backlash against GMOs reflects a broader anti-science sentiment which delays important emerging technologies ...
Imagine a world without orange juice
Imagine a world without orange juice. Heck, I can’t even imagine a morning without this delicious drink. It’s been a ...
How serendipity in an Israeli lab led to drought-resistant plants
Plant biologist Shimon Gepstein did not set out to find a revolutionary technology that has been successfully producing drought-resistant rice, ...
The Grocery Manufacturers Association has launched a GMO facts website
(Summary) In response to the growing polarization of the GMO debate, the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) launched a new GMO ...
Europeans are less negative about GMOs than portrayed
Europeans may be slightly less anti-science than they are portrayed - at least when it comes to food. Though American ...
British Columbia: Union of B.C. Municipalities passes resolution to ask the province to ban GMOs
Municipal politicians rejected genetically engineered food by a narrow margin at the Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Vancouver Thursday ...
Reaffirming commitment to science, AAAS condemns Golden Rice vandalism
Standing up for GMOs, a group of the world's top scientists have come together, through the American Association for the ...
Gates Foundation will continue to support Golden Rice
The Gates Foundation, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates, says it will continue its support of Golden Rice research despite ...
Bangladesh gets closer to approving GM eggplant
The envy of their neighbors in India, Bangladesh inches closer to approving Bt brinjal (eggplant), a crop that will drastically ...
Non-GMO foods will account for 30% of US food and beverage sales by 2017
US retail sales of non-GMO foods and beverages are projected to increase at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of ...
Africa shouldn’t take GM crops lightly, but neither can it ignore their potential
In the unlikely event that I had forgotten just how controversial and polarizing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are, the past few days ...
The bad science checklist of GMO opponents
One of my favorite science websites is at Science or Not, the author of which, Graham Coghill, claims that “this website will ...
