Food & Agriculture Features
The GLP explores the role of genetic engineering in food production and the polarized debate surrounding it. We highlight the work of our own writers, as well as that of contributors from around the Web. The GLP does not take a position on genetics-related issues; any opinions expressed belong to the authors.
Categories include:
- Chemicals and pesticides
- Organics
- Conventional crops
- New breeding technologies
- Animal biotechnology
- Food systems
- Sustainability
- Regulations
- Politics
- Ideology
GMO labeling may be more about marketing than transparency
Is GMO labeling really about a consumer's right to know? Or is it about creating doubt about the safety of ...
Pro-GMO advocates capitulate to support GMO label law: Is this science’s Munich agreement?
Is the GMO labeling bill, which was just passed by both houses of Congress, a loss for advocates of biotechnology ...
Myth busting: Are synthetic pesticides, used with some GMOs, more dangerous than natural ones?
Both organic and conventional farmers use pesticides, but these chemicals are rampant in nature and many natural ones are far ...
How anti-modern farming agroecology NGOs spread GMO misinformation in Africa
Europe and US-funded NGOs are spreading scare stories about GMO crops. Cornell Alliance for Science and other groups are trying ...
Has WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) shifted from analysis to advocacy?
What is IARC? What is its relationship with the World Health Organization? Was its designation of glyphosate as 'probably carcinogenic' ...
Scientist develop ‘biofortified’ canola seed for production of oil with heart-healthy fats
Canola oil is one of the healthiest plant derived oils humans regularly consume--and soon it may get even healthier ...
Vermont not victim of GMO ‘pollution,’ as organic activist claims
The increase in the state's chemical usage is largely tied to sustainable-friendly cover cropping ...
Senate’s GMO labeling bill clears major hurdle, final approval expected this week
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A federal bill that ...
African farmer: Europe vote blocks GMOs and modern farming, dooming us to food subsistence
An African journalist and farmer speaks out against the European Parliament's call to block GMO cultivation in Africa, calling it ...
African farming sacrificed to European green politics, blocking GMO innovation
A biotech expert from Africa says European Parliament must let Africa reap the same benefits the rest of world has ...
Six consequences for consumers of labeling GMOs
What will happen if GMO labeling becomes required? Here are 6 real consequences for consumers ...
Anti-GMO activists brandish disputed Stone-Glover Golden Rice paper in attacks on Nobel laureates
Anti-GMO activists are trying to discredit Nobel laureates' rebuke of Greenpeace for attempting to discredit Golden Rice humanitarian project. Here's ...
110 Nobel Laureates to Greenpeace: Stick with science, don’t block Golden Rice
A letter from 107 Nobel Laureates calls on Greenpeace, the UN, and Governments around the world to support and advance ...
Adrian Dubock, Golden Rice scientist: Greenpeace, GMO critics misrepresent humanitarian project
In a letter sent exclusively to GLP, a leader of the Golden Rice project speaks out against recent criticisms of ...
How Brexit will impact the future of farming, GMOs and gene editing in Britain and Europe
What does Brexit mean for crop and animal biotechnology in Britain or Europe? How might CRISPR and New Breeding Technologies ...
When it comes to sustainability and organic farming, does size matter?
It's the way crops are farmed not the farm's size that matters when it comes to sustainability ...
Documents uncover secret coordination among ‘independent’ anti-biotech scientists, activists
Emails reveal how activists, researchers and journalists coordinate to promote anti-biotech ideals ...
Bipartisan Senate GMO labeling agreement under attack from activists
A bipartisan compromise on GMO labeling has been reached in the Senate. But the bill is still far from being ...
Is the precautionary principle guiding law or a political notion?
What is the precautionary principle, and how is it being used, or misused? ...
As Congress dickers over GMO labeling, Brazil may offer path forward
Can we look to Brazil, where GMOs have been labeled since 2003, to learn what the effects of GMO labeling ...
BBC debate: Are Monsanto, Big Ag taking over the world’s seed supply?
Do corporations, like Monsanto, control too much of our food supply, seeds, and farming technology? ...
How anti-GMO activists blocked South American disease resistant papaya
In 2000, Venezuela was developing a disease resistant papaya, but activists threatened scientists and spread disinformation and the project was ...
Biotech opponents claim Monsanto ‘controls’ the world food supply? What are the facts?
Is there truth to a common anti-GMO narrative that large multi-national companies seek to “control the food supply” through patents ...
Ex-Friends of the Earth activist: GMO debate needs to remove ‘absolute opinions’ against biotech
A former activist for an anti-GMO group likens movement to debate on nuclear energy. Says conversations shouldn't start with facts, ...
Activists played ‘no role’ in delaying Golden Rice’? Evidence challenges anti-GMO claim
Anthropologist Glenn Stone says golden rice has not been held back by activists, but what is the real story behind ...
Non-GMO label lies to consumers, says plant scientist
Today's genetic modification techniques are far less intense and precise than older ones, yet many foods are now misleadingly labeled ...
Delicious mutant foods: Mutagenesis and the genetic modification controversy
The best Italian pasta, Ruby Red grapefruits and 3,000 other crop varieties consumed by millions every day were created by ...
