Crops & 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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Bangladesh joins the global GMO club, introduces Bt brinjal (eggplant)
Bangladesh became the 30th country to cultivate a genetically motivated crop with the introduction this week of Bt brinjal--eggplant modified ...
Will Kellogg follow Gen Mills and Post in non-GMO embrace?
Many brands are "playing a waiting game" right now to whether moves by General Mills and Post Foods to axe ...
Applying the ‘Bradford Hill’ criteria to assess GMO safety
Two anti-GMO advocacy groups attempted to use the Bradford Hill criteria to demonstrate a link between GMOs and adverse health ...
Monsanto is more than just GMOs
Monsanto makes money selling genetically modified seeds. Though once a broader-scale chemicals company, Monsanto's seeds and genomics business accounted for over ...
Anti GMO activist view of what sank Washington state’s GMO labeling initiative
Last November, a slim majority of Washington voters were persuaded that they did not need to know about the GMO ...
New Hampshire House rejects GMO food labeling
New Hampshire’s House killed a bill Wednesday that would have required genetically modified foods to be labeled. The House voted ...
In response to Grist’s Johnson, Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott argues GMOs lead ag down wrong path
In another response to Grist's Nathanael Johnson's recent series on GMOs, Mother Jones' Tom Philpott presents an anti-GMO view and ...
Hawaii County Council votes against full GMO ban
It was deja vu for the Hawaii County Council on Tuesday as it voted against a full ban on genetically ...
Tanzania developing drought tolerant hybrid seeds
On January 10, the Water Efficient Maize for Africa (WEMA) project in Tanzania, in collaboration with the Commission for Science ...
Four trends driving food labeling
Like food, labels are something we need, but are at constant risk of abusing. The FDA regulates what can, as ...
General MIlls emboldens fringe groups by removing GM ingredients from Cheerios
This month General Mills announced that it would begin labeling its flagship product, the breakfast cereal Cheerios, as containing no ...
New Hampshire legislators on GMO labeling bill: ‘Makes no sense’
According to two members of New Hampshire's Environment & Agriculture Committee that studied House Bill 660, the bill to require ...
Monsanto’s kitchen: All the advantages of genetic modification without the Frankenfood ick factor
The company whose name is synonymous with Big Ag has revolutionized the way we grow food—for better or worse. Now, ...
Vitamin enhanced GM ‘Golden Orange’ grows faster, provides antioxidant protection
A team of researchers in Spain have engineered a "golden orange" that grows more quickly than conventional oranges and contains ...
Response to Grist’s Johnson: Ramez Nam on why GMOs matter—especially for the developing world
After Grist ran Nathanael Johnson’s summary essay in his sixth month series, What I learned from six months of GMO ...
Kaua’i County appeals to activist lawyers to cover costs of agri-busness challenge of anti-GMO law
After the County of Kauai was officially served last Thursday afternoon with a federal lawsuit by three of the island’s ...
Amy Harmon GMO redux: Targeting female journalists for deviating from ideological expectations
Journalist Amy Wallace explores gender expectations in science communication and overcoming bias in writing about GMOs and other important topics ...
View from an Iowa farm: In choosing seeds, ‘I’m no pawn of Monsanto’
Every year, farmers are faced with difficult decisions about which seeds they will plant. The wrong choices can be disastrous ...
Would you prefer to eat genetically modified eggs, or see day-old chicks destroyed?
World egg production industries rely on a single sex only (female), with the males generally disposed of by carbon dioxide ...
Why the Gates Foundation wants to make Golden Rice
Imagine if you could prevent hundreds of millions of children from suffering malnutrition maladies such as blindness, stunting, poor health ...
Gene technology develops longer, stronger cotton fiber
An international team with Texas A&M University ties is using cutting-edge genetic engineering techniques to suppress expression of a key protein in ...
What if natural products came with a list of ingredients?
Processed foods are notorious for their jaw-droppingly long lists of chemical-laden ingredients, each one sounding worse than the last. But ...
After voters reject GMO labeling, Washington state lawmaker aim at GM salmon
Months after Washington voters narrowly rejected an initiative requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods, lawmakers are reviving the GMO ...
Pakistan working to formulate ‘national biotechnology policy’
Pakistan's Ministry of National Food Security has started the process to formulate a ‘national biotechnology policy’, and was working on ...
Anti-GMO take on USDA green-lighting of corn and soybean with herbicide 2,4-D resistance
The USDA recently gave a virtual green light for Dow's new GE corn and soybean seeds, but according to opponents, ...
Is there a farmer and consumer backlash against GM crops?
Most US consumers say they want genetically modified food labelled (it isn't) and believe that they don't eat GM food ...
Russia moves to legitimize GM seed imports, spur research
Russia has introduced a registration system for foods containing genetically modified organisms that could drag the illegal import of genetically modified seeds ...
