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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Biology Fortified proposes a wiki for GMOs
The following is an excerpt. Today there may be the kind of critical mass necessary to move [a GMO wiki ...
Taxpayers don’t have to pay for overpriced food labels
PolicyMicFarm Bill Cuts $22 Million From Organic Food Funding: Taxpayers Don't Have to ...PolicyMicIn November, California voters rejected Proposition 37, ...
AquaBounty GM salmon worries some scientists
The following is an editorial summary. Whether or not the AquaBounty GM salmon is of concern to "scientists" as a ...
India: Agriculture minister suspects U.S. lobbies of funding anti-GM campaigns
The following is an excerpt. NAGPUR: Union agriculture minister andNCPsupremoSharadPawar gave a new twist to the controversy on genetically modified (GM) crops like ...
Scientists discover genetic key to efficient photosynthesis
The following is an excerpt: Cornell researchers have taken a leap toward meeting those needs by discovering a gene that ...
EU health commissioner to prioritise talks on GM crop bans
The following is an excerpt. EU health commissioner Tonio Borg intends to prioritise discussions with key European member states about ...
India: GM science caught between faith and denial
The following is an excerpt. The debate surrounding genetically modified or GM foods never seems to end. What we are ...
Actually, new study does NOT prove that GM food is horrible for you
The following is an excerpt. A paper released in December in the journal GM Crops and Food has created quite a stir ...
Greenpeace’s war on world health
The following is an excerpt. If there's anything more annoying than a huckster, it's a self-righteous huckster working for a ...
GM food: A better way of farming or a health risk?
NET WebsiteGM food: A better way of farming or a health risk?MetroYou are what you eat. If that mantra is ...
European association for bioindustries: “Scientific consensus on GM greater than climate change”
The following is an excerpt. “The scientific consensus on genetically modified [GM] crops is even greater than that for climate change”, claims ...
French vineyards turn ‘green’ using genetics, robots
The following is an excerpt. An Earth-friendly future for French wine could include disease-resistant grapes, solar-powered robots, and lighter packaging, ...
Jamaica: Senate approves bill to protect plant genetics
The following is an excerpt. THE Senate on Friday passed the Bill providing for the protection of Jamaica's plant genetic ...
Can biotechnology be open-source?
As the Supreme Court watches Monsanto battle small farmers over GMO patent rights, some are suggesting that open-source biotechnology could ...
Biotechnology: Teaching the controversy?
Is the American Museum of Natural History helping the public learn about biotechnology in its fine new exhibit on food ...
UK government’s enthusiasm for GM not matched in developing nations
Britain wants GM food to be grown commercially. After years of encouraging developing countries in Africa and elsewhere to grow them, but unable to ...
GMOs and The Mark Lynas Conversion: Round Two Roundup
The GLP digs through the fallout from Mark Lynas's public "conversion" from anti-GMO to pro-science activist ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
Monsanto versus the people
Exploiting their patent on transgenic corn, soybean and cotton, Monsanto asserts an insidious control of those agricultural industries in the ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
Like it or not, the future of food involves GM
With consumer demand for minimally processed, fresh-like food, it is inevitable that food ingredient innovation will step up to meet ...
Safer food: New biotech uses DNA to screen for bacteria faster than ever
Chicken meat and other foods will be able to be screened for bacteria even faster and more effectively than ever, ...
Institute of Food Science & Technology to sponsor free food science webinar
FoodManufacture.co.uk and the Institute of Food Science & Technology are sponsoring a free public webinar on food science and technology ...
Future of food: GMOs and test-tube burgers
As long as we keep trying to replicate the past, we’ll limit innovation. “Food nostalgia” may be ignorant and unsustainable, ...
Why I changed my mind about GMOs
Lecture to Oxford Farming Conference, 3 January 2013 I want to start with some apologies. For the record, here and ...
