Agriculture Spotlight
Labeling GM foods would pose monstrous hurdles
Science aside, efforts to label GM food face packaging issues as monstrous as any "Frankenfood." There are many "stealth" GM ...
Monsanto sued over GM wheat, other suits likely to follow
Monsanto was sued in federal court in Wichita by a Kansas farmer who accused it of negligently releasing genetically altered ...
What if we discussed organic the same way as biotech?
It's easy it is to concoct a reasonable-sounding (but false) argument that organic crops must cause autism and diabetes ...
Pulitzer Prize winner makes incredibly inaccurate remark about GM food safety
Michael Moss, Pulitzer Prize food journalist, claims "the research hasn't been done" on GM crops. He's wrong ...
Europe’s anti-GM stance denies Africa’s ability to feed itself
A leading African academic condemns European environmentalists for blocking the adoption of biotech crops ...
The Great Biotech Debate is Tuesday
The GLP's Jon Entine will be participating in The Great Biotechnology Debate at the CATO Institute tomorrow, alongside plant geneticists ...
Half-century of undue delays: GM approval in the EU
The European Association of Bioindustries has issued a report criticizes the European Commission's habit of delaying decisions on GM product ...
GM wheat found in Oregon field creates media maelstrom
Last week, the USDA announced that genetically engineered wheat was found in a field in Oregon. Although deemed safe by ...
Transgenic salmon hybridize with trout, produce sterile offspring
A recent "worst case scenario" breeding experiment has opponents of the AquAdvantage salmon unduly scared ...
Biotech crops do not produce new allergens or toxins
The idea that GM crops might result in novel allergens is "at best wildly misleading and at worse an all-out ...
The precautionary principle stops GM eggplants in the Philippines
The Court of Appeals in the Philippines recently put a stop to field tests of insect-resistant Bt eggplant crops, preventing ...
Anti-GMO leaders withdraw from ‘Great Biotech Debate’ — Forum will go on
Two leaders of the anti-biotech movement have dropped out the Great Biotech Debate, for dubious reasons, but the GLP and ...
Pesticide use is up — have biotech crops backfired?
What does increased pesticide use really say about the success or failure of pest-resistant biotech crops? ...
Detective story: How genomics found the culprit in Ireland’s Great Famine
In an impressive bit of genomic sleuthing, researchers have used dried potato leaves to decode the genome of the fungus-like ...
California’s activist court rules that GM alfalfa is not a pest
Despite a track record spotted with anti-science activist positions, California's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's determination ...
Organic industry’s credibility eroded by misinformation about GE foods
The most extreme and ill-informed of the organic advocacy groups are damaging the credibility of the entire organic industry. The ...
Voices come out in defense of Monsanto
Everyone's least favorite company has seen stories this week highlight its good side ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
AquAdvantage salmon: “Frankenfish” or “Wunderfish”?
Even with approval inching ever-closer for the AquAdvantage salmon, the debate about its safety rages on ...
How to recognize questionable information about genetically modified organisms
A genomics scientists helps lay readers separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to GMO misinformation ...
DIY biotechnology: Glowing trees
Hoping to give new meaning to the term “natural light,” a small group of biotech enthusiasts is trying to create ...
Navigating the agricultural biotech minefield: When an MIT study is not an MIT study
Thanks to a credulous Reuters report, a shoddy piece of pseudoscience is making the rounds as “an MIT study” linking ...
Nature’s must-read issue on genetically modified organisms
Keith Kloor dissects and summarizes Nature magazine's special issue on genetically modified organisms ...
Why scientists and science advocates shouldn’t fight the GM-labeling movement
Ramez Naam, a GLP contributor, makes the argument that -- despite the scientific evidence for the safety of genetically modified ...
