Food & Ag 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
Genetic engineering, CRISPR and food: What the ‘revolution’ will bring in the near future
Genetic engineering and gene editing have the potential to radically transform our lives if they can overcome the objections of ...
Podcast: Farm Aid concert meant to support US agriculture spreads GMO, ‘factory farming’ myths
In recent years, Farm Aid's laudable effort to support US agriculture has morphed into a promotional event for organic food ...
Trials should be settled by ‘scientific evidence, not speculation and emotion’: In unusual twist, California medical groups join appeal of jury verdict finding Monsanto’s Roundup causes cancer
Medical professionals in California have stepped into the ongoing courtroom fight over glyphosate ...
Experts ‘overwhelmingly’ endorse CRISPR-edited crop safety, but politics could stifle technology’s progress
Genome edited crops pose marginal risk, yet regulations tend to discourage their use ...
Do vaccines contain glyphosate? Anti-GMO claim requires ‘very unlikely scenario’
Many GMO critics believe that vaccines are contaminated with glyphosate. A look at how vaccines are made and how glyphosate ...
Viewpoint: Don’t buy organic food if you want to increase farm yields or seriously address climate change
As consumers, our most climate-responsible buying behavior should be to reject organic and its false narratives ...
Infographic: USDA bioengineered food label makes grocery store debut on GMO Impossible Burger
Impossible Foods has enthusiastically defended its use of genetic engineering to produce meat substitutes ...
Raging debate: Ghana’s move to commercialize its first GMO cowpea met with mix of optimism and fear
The country plans to release the modified seeds this year or next. Will they benefit the small farmers they were ...
Controversial GMO American chestnut could provide blueprint for saving endangered species
To those who are fearful of GMOs, it is the most dangerous tree in the world. To the rest of ...
Infographic: Eliminating synthetic fertilizer won’t solve agriculture’s nitrogen pollution problem
The proposed solution is worse than the problem it hopes to solve ...
Viewpoint: ‘Big Ag’ owns scientists who endorse safety of GMOs? Busting the anti-biotech movement’s favorite myth
Scientists are generally inclined to dislike big companies--but they know that biotechnology has made our food supply safer and more ...
Podcast: Farming without chemicals: Pesticide-carrying bees poised to revolutionize agriculture?
While the GMO controversy rages, a handful of companies are taking another innovative approach to crop protection ...
Examining Sweden’s ties to anti-GMO conference in Africa, through taxpayer-funded Swedish Society for Nature Conservation
How the environmental movement neglects the environment ...
Viewpoint: How organic industry opposition to CRISPR gene editing encourages pesticide use
The organic food movement has a bigger problem than the double standard it relies on to attack synthetic chemicals ...
Viewpoint: ‘GMO’—the dirty three-letter word used to demonize life-saving biotechnology
The demonization of this technology funds numerous NGOs and has even become a cottage industry ...
From GMOs to BPA, why the wealthy are more likely to fall for food pseudoscience
Socioeconomics play a significant role in attitudes about food ...
Viewpoint: Activist myth-making, anti-science lobbying undermine Uganda’s path to food security
The president's trepidation about crop biotech is science-free and largely due to the influence of Western environmental groups ...
Viewpoint: ‘Roundup game plan’—How ‘environmental’ activists, IARC’s Chris Portier plotted attacks on Monsanto-Bayer to get glyphosate banned and cripple ag biotechnology
The failure to retract the monograph despite overwhelming rejections from the scientific community points to a Glyphosate Gameplan at IARC ...
Viewpoint: Public supports CRISPR, gene drives to battle infectious disease, plant pests—despite activist opposition
Consumers are less wary of biotechnology when they know how it's being deployed ...
Viewpoint: GMO, CRISPR-edited crops can cut pesticide use—if environmental activists do not block them
Anti-GMO activists should take a step back and look closely at some of the benefits that new genetically modified crops ...
Viewpoint: Organic industry anti-pesticide ‘propaganda’ threatens to cripple American agriculture
Misleading half-truths and outright misstatements offer a teaching moment about “advocacy research.” ...
Viewpoint: Hidden conflicts of interest cripple IARC’s biased glyphosate-cancer evaluation
IARC has no clear understanding of what a conflict of interest is (or doesn’t care) ...
NY Times’ Eric Lipton defends anti-biotech, anti-vax Moms Across America, which harasses scientists
Journalists like Eric Lipton need to recognize where the real danger lies ...
Plans to introduce GMO crops in disarray, legislators angry after Uganda’s president rejects GMO cultivation law for second time
The lawmakers could attempt to enact the legislation without the president’s signature ...
Podcast: Food snobbery vs the Impossible Burger: A skeptical look at health claims about plant-based meat
"Natural food" advocates have blasted Impossible and Beyond as unhealthy. Let's look at their arguments ...
Viewpoint: How trial lawyers rigged IARC’s cancer monograph program to fuel lawsuits targeting glyphosate, other chemicals
IARC is a troubling example of a UN agency used for personal profit ...
Podcast: Do it for the kids? Federal children’s health research grants fund anti-pesticide, organic food activism
How would taxpayers feel about funding organic food activism masquerading as children's health research? ...
