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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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) ...
Oregon: Genetically modified crops vandalized
Some 6,500 GM plants have been destroyed by "eco-activists" in Oregon since the beginning of the month ...
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 ...
When is a tomato not a tomato?
Our modern tomatoes are tasteless -- could GM tech restore the tomato's tastiness? ...
University student scientist view of crop biotech safety critics: Where’s the beef?
Cornell University graduate student in Plant Sciences, Gonzalo Pizarro, whose research revolves around molecular biology, provides this week's special guest ...
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 ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
Organic Consumer Association issues threat to Congressional candidates on GE labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Just when you thought the crazies over at the Organic Consumer’s Association (OCA) couldn’t ...
UK environmental secretary: We must lead the world in GE crops
The following is an edited excerpt. UK Environmental Secretary, Owen Paterson, delivered a speech about genetically engineered crops at the ...
Chipotle starts putting Scarlett letter on GE foods on its website menu
The following is an edited excerpt. Chipotle Mexican Grill recently became the first fast-food chain to label the ingredients it ...
GE sugar beets destroyed in southern Oregon; FBI investigating
The following is an edited excerpt. Federal investigators are asking the public to help solve middle-of-the-night crimes that left ruined ...
USDA approves Non-GMO Project’s label claims
In a first for the U.S., the Agriculture Department has approved the Non-GMO project's labels for meat and liquid egg ...
The dangers of condescension in the GM debate
The UK's Environmental Minister needs to reframe his proposed GM discussion if he wants to avoid a slow-motion train wreck ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
GE ‘anti-expert’ front & center on CNN
The following is an edited excerpt. Of all the people CNN could have chosen for the ‘every day citizen’ comment ...
Rogue GE wheat is growing in 127 countries! Should consumers be concerned?
The following is an edited excerpt. After the “crisis” of glyphosate tolerant wheat being found in an Oregon field, I ...
World Food Prize goes for work on biotech crops
The following is an edited excerpt. As governments, food aid organizations and other groups are thinking big in their efforts ...
World Food Prize goes to those who made GM plants possible
The "Nobel Prize of food" has been given to three biotech pioneers -- including an executive from Monsanto ...
Pig feeding study shows how not to use statistics
The following is an edited excerpt. In the latest issue of Journal of Organic Production Systems, a long-term toxicology study ...
CNN features outrageous anti-GE views
The following is an edited excerpt. The latest frightful example of GE fear-mongering aired Monday on CNN. It was a ...
Target to remove genetically engineered ingredients from major food brand
The following is an edited excerpt. Super store giant, Target, has announced they will be adding a new brand to ...
