Agriculture Spotlight
Scientific American: Labels for GMO foods are a bad idea
In response to pending GMO-label legislation around the country, Scientific American has denounced the mandatory labeling of GM food ...
GMOs and the “reverse halo effect”: Trust is key to dispelling consumer fear
The “reverse halo effect”: once something is labeled GM, it will be perceived as unnatural, therefore bad ...
Grist: Extremism in defense of GMOs is holding back science
Setting phasers to "utter destruction" is not the best approach to constructive criticism in GMO science ...
Hawaii: Anti-GM bill could force farmers to tear out their papayas
Big Island Rainbow papaya farmers may have to tear out their trees within 30 months if a new GM bill ...
Trouble in paradise: Will the GMO debate consume Hawaii?
Hawaii stands at a crossroads: on one side, compromise between residents, consumers, and agriculture that benefits all sides and results ...
Gaming with genes for the sake of a tree
The public are being asked to help in the fight against ash tree dieback by playing a computer game that ...
Philippines: Department of Agriculture to sue ‘paid residents’ who destroyed Golden Rice
Six people have been identified in the vandalism of a Golden Rice field trial; authorities believe none of the vandals ...
Wine Spectator article outlines how GMOs might help wine industry
GMOs might help protect the wine industry from mildew and other problems ...
Petition to condemn Golden Rice vandalism gains support from scientific community
An online petition to condemn the activists who destroyed a Golden Rice field trial has gained 1500 signatures in just ...
What if plants could be plastic factories?
A Massachusetts-based company is genetically engineering plants to produce an organic polymer that can be used to make biodegradable plastic ...
GMO labeling proponents now fighting their own labeling legislation on supplements
Citizens for Health, a lobby group for the dietary supplement industry and one of the chief proponents behind the GMO ...
Why novel dsRNA molecules in GM food are of little to no concern
Consumers should not fear dietary double-stranded RNA from GM foods, studies show ...
Elle’s botched response to previously botched anti-GMO story
Elle has had an opportunity to redress its botched GMO coverage by opening its pages to a genuine discussion of ...
Mother Jones’s Philpott supports Pollan “talking points” attack on NYTimes GM orange story
Anti-GMO journalist defends Michael Pollan’s backhanded attack on Amy Harmon’s NYT story on GM oranges ...
Philpott faux pas: Shills, semantics, and a defense of the science writing community
Stop using “industry defenders” and other dismissive catch-alls to frame genetic modification as us-versus-them ...
Agricultural scientist Steve Savage reflects on the anti-GMO bill in Hawaii
Steve Savage went to Hawaii to try to combat the anti-GMO hysteria surrounding Bill 2491. Farmers who work on the ...
Grist: Who’s doing the research on GMO seeds?
Johnson begins a multi-step investigation into intellectual property rights. Do big biotech corporations really exercise draconian control on all biotech ...
Kauai’s biotech battle: A field report from geneticist Kevin Folta
In Kauai, there is no reason for fear or action; no need for a bill and restrictive non-scientific regulation ...
Future foods: Candy grapes, hypoallergenic apples, and more!
Whether it's been genetically modified, cross-pollinated or created out of some other scientific process, scientists are aiming to create food ...
In defense of the precautionary principle
Far from the pessimistic, innovation-strangling caricature, precaution actually celebrates the full depth and potential for human agency in knowledge and ...
Genetic Literacy Project deconstructs Elle’s botched critique of GMO foods
Lifestyle magazines are fanning the flames of GMO-fear, without recourse to facts and -- in the case of Elle -- ...
Activists challenge GMO field trials in Ghana
Debate over seed ownership and the role of foreign influences on agriculture is causing divisions in Ghana ...
Cloud-based genomics: Will the Internet create GM super-oranges?
Farmers are hacking their operations with robots, sensors, drones, and good-old circuit boards, but that’s merely a first step. Thanks ...
French anti-GM protesters target “hidden GMOs”
French anti-biotech activists are now destroying "hidden GMOs" -- that is crop varieties produced by mutation breeding ...
Hawaii science ‘Swat Team’ part 2: Hawaii must resist anti-GMO scare, defend maize nurseries
Hawaii is an important player in global agriculture, and important nursery for the development of maize and other crops due ...
Grist: GMOs, allergens and the specter of ‘unknown unknowns’
Grist takes a second, deeper look at the allergenic risk of GM crops relative to traditional crops ...
GLP Infographic: 10 reasons we need crop biotechnology
The web is overflowing with misleading infographics. Here's our own, more accurate list ...
