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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Union of Concerned Scientists embraces anti-science views on crop biotech
The following is an edited excerpt. Let me begin by saying I love the Union of Concerned Scientists. They’ve been ...
Bill Gates: Technology, including GE, key to reducing world poverty
The following is an edited excerpt. Nothing improves an economy as efficiently as agriculture, the Microsoft founder said. Investing in ...
US State Department promotes GE crops overseas; activists howl
The following is an edited excerpt. If you have a feeling that genetically modified (GM) foods are being forced upon ...
Anti-biotech critics propose killing Hawaiian papaya crop
The following is an edited excerpt. Genetic engineering opponents turned out in force Tuesday before the Hawaii County Council to ...
Voices come out in defense of Monsanto
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The work of a scientist on GM crops in Africa
The following is an edited excerpt. She has addressed the world’s leaders at the UN. She has sat in the ...
Huh? Anti-biotech group confirms salt is definitely not a GMO
The following is an edited excerpt. Here's how we know that science is dead in the anti-GMO movement. The Non-GMO ...
Breakthrough GE potato doesn’t brown or produce potentially carcinogenic compound
Biofortified interviews the man behind a new genetically engineered potato that doesn’t brown when cut or fried nor make acrylamide, ...
Food activists claim pro-biotech forces promoting genocide
The following is an edited excerpt. While it is true regarding Reagan's apparent approval of genocide in Guatemala, the same ...
Anti-biotech activist Jeffrey Smith peddles pseudo-science
The following is an edited excerpt. When the definitive history of the GMO debate is written, Jeffrey Smith is going ...
Farmers who try biotech seeds come back for more
The following is an edited excerpt. Last year, too dry. This year, too wet. Spring planting is never perfect in ...
Sustainability bonus: Boll worm resistant cotton eliminates pesticide use
The following is an edited excerpt. Thanks to the genetic trait in our cotton that makes it resistant to the ...
SCOTUS rules Indiana farmer is “seed thief,” upholds Monsanto’s seed patents
The Supreme Court ruled that a farmer cannot reproduce patented seeds through planting and harvesting without permission of the patent ...
Kloor blog deconstructs crop biotech labeling debate
The following is an edited excerpt. There are two camps that favor labeling genetically modified [GM] foods: 1) The “Right ...
Organic supporters peddle fear in push for labeling
The following is an edited excerpt. Most everybody knows that GMO labelling is the pet project of the U.S. organic ...
Nigeria pushes GM food crops
The following is an edited excerpt. Nigeria hopes to use biotechnology to help feed its growing population as the country ...
Monsanto folds after SCOTUS win, citing high costs of buying off scientists
The following is an edited excerpt. Hours after their victory in the Supreme Court, seed and chemical giant Monsanto filed for bankruptcy ...
Tanzania plans to grow Bt cotton by 2020
The following is an edited excerpt. Tanzania plans to start growing Bt cotton by 2020 once the Government aided research ...
Turkey suspends official who falsely reported GMO in rice, stirring scare
The following is an edited excerpt. There is no genetically modified rice that is being traded in the world and ...
Gaia “health food” blog launches new anti-biotech scare campaign
The following is an edited excerpt. I knew this day would come. I suppose it's been here for a while, ...
Activist falsely claim crop genes destroy human digestive system
The following is an edited excerpt. Labeling foods containing genetically modified ingredients will enable us to choose to avoid them ...
Anti-GMO campaigners label non-bruising apples with misleading “botox” label
The following is an edited excerpt. Americans may soon be biting into the future of apples. Pending approval by the ...
Activist distortion: New biotech crops contain Agent Orange
The following is an edited excerpt. Politicians may not always listen to the people, but USDA heard the people loud ...
New generation of herbicide-tolerant crops face regulatory delays
Monsanto and Dow Chemical face delays in selling biotech crops engineered to survive older weedkillers after the the U.S. Department ...
Peru crop biotech ban highlights botched debate over biodiversity
Global demand for food is expected to increase by 70 percent in the next 40 years. What role could or ...
Ten responses to “Ten reasons we don’t need GMOs”
The following is an excerpt. Find a link to the full article below. You may have run across this article “10 ...
AquAdvantage salmon: “Frankenfish” or “Wunderfish”?
Even with approval inching ever-closer for the AquAdvantage salmon, the debate about its safety rages on ...
