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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Fascinating science behind development of Bt eggplant
Bt eggplant, which is genetically modified to produce an insecticidal protein, is safe to consume and can protect eggplant from ...
Fear of pesticides and GMOs may drive out Kauai’s biotech industry
Kauai’s GM seed industry, which plays a “significant” role in Kauai’s economy, has been facing obstacles recently—namely the fear of ...
No GMOs? How about a helping of irradiated mutant fruits and veggies instead?
Although plants bred through industrial means like mutation breeding for genetic modification might seem dangerous, unnatural does not automatically mean ...
With GM approval in Russia on the horizon, activist scientists call for 10 year moratorium
In an attempt to block the introduction of GM crops in Russian, an anti-GMO activist scientist organization is calling for ...
Nurse-mom endorses non-browning GM apples, provokes torrent of criticism
Studies have found that children are more likely to eat sliced fruit than whole fruit. But like many mothers, Sarah, ...
Whole Foods GMO labeling requirements could alienate food suppliers
With its voluntary GMO-labeling program that will be introduced in full by 2018, Whole Foods “will no doubt bolster its ...
Grist’s Nathanael Johnson’s GMO archives: Wading through the ideological thicket
The GMO debate is wrought with arguments based on emotion, not facts. Grist's Nathnael Johnson has been wading through the ...
Former EPA scientist: GMOs are not an improvement
The promise that genetic modification of crops is an “immensely beneficial technology” is “inaccurate, misleading and biased,” writes Ramon Seidler, ...
Ghana has ‘no option’ but to adopt GM technology
Ghana will adopt the use of genetically modified crops, says the Minister for Environment, Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Joe ...
Grocery industry calls on FDA to define ‘natural’ to include GM food
The Grocery Manufacturers Association has called on the Food and Drug Administration to define the ‘natural’ claim on food labels ...
China Food Fight: GMOs in crosshairs as grassroots suspicion of US simmers
The anti-GMO sentiment in China has been gaining traction as many activists “describe their cause as patriotic.” Students looking for ...
Concerns raised over ‘Franken-carnations’
The UK’s Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has raised concerns over the use of ornamental carnations in ...
Anti-GMO activists continue to promote retracted Séralini study
The anti-biotech community “has simply dismissed that the scientific integrity of the now-retracted [Séralini] study was ever in doubt,” writes ...
Venezuela targeted in activist fight against GM crops in South America
Venezuela is on the “front lines” of a significant resistance in South America to genetically modified crops. While several South ...
View from France: Can Europe overcome its reflexive anti-GMO bias?
Genetically modified organisms have almost become taboo in Europe. There is only one GMO cultivated in the European Union--Mosanto's MON810 ...
What happened when an organic farmer visited the ‘evil empire’ Monsanto?
After organic farmer Rob Wallbridge wrote a blog post earlier this year about the acrimonious tenor of the national debate ...
Brazil reevaluating sterile seed technology; Anti-GMO groups hype ‘terminator’ scare
Brazil reconsidering its ban on so-called “terminator” seeds, which are genetically modified to be sterile and cannot produce offspring. Under ...
EU court annuls approval of paper-making Amflora GMO potato
Europe's second-highest court overturned a decision by the European Commission to allow the cultivation and sale of the Amflora genetically ...
Anti-GMO bill puts Connecticut in scientific ‘Hall of Shame’
Connecticut Governor Dan Malloy celebrated the signing of Connecticut’s bill that could eventually require the labeling of foods containing GMO ...
Podcast: Organic grower Jack’s Farm Radio interviews GLP’s Jon Entine on GMOs and sustainability
In his exploration of the ins and outs of genetically modified food, organic farmer Dan Heckler interviews GLP's Jon Entine ...
Food and Chemical Toxicology editor-in-chief defends retraction of Séralini study
In response to several allegations of misconduct against the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology, the editor-in-chief released a letter explaining ...
Hawaii County’s Bill 113 ‘needlessly stigmatizes’ papaya farmers
“Bill 113 needlessly stigmatizes our papaya farmers…it penalizes them as well,” writes Michael Shintaku, professor of plant pathology at the ...
Farmers say they do not feel ‘forced’ to buy GM seeds
Farmers do feel that they have a choice whether to buy GM seeds or not. A popular argument used by ...
Are GM foods with ‘foreign’ genes still vegan?
An issue in relation to genetic modified of crops often brought up by vegans and vegetarians is “What about inserting ...
Russia to allow cultivation of GM crops
The first harvest of genetically modified seeds in Russia will take place in 2016. In September of this year, Russian ...
How to write like an angry internet ‘expert’ on GMOs
Researching genetically modified food “gave me so many examples of bad science that I could have spoken for three hours ...
‘Mommy blogs’ and parenting sites take over the fight against GMOs
Radical environmental groups initially led the charge against genetically modified food, but today, some of the most vocal and influential ...
