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
Viewpoint: Vandana Shiva, false prophet for profit
This article originally appeared at Forbes and has been republished here with the author's permission. Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist ...
Iowa farmer challenges activist Vandana Shiva after ‘myth-filled’ anti-GMO lecture
The philosopher-trained critic of technological innovation spoke at Drake University last week. Unlike what usually happens at public events where ...
Nigeria poised to become Africa’s GMO superpower, overcoming NGO scare campaigns
Africa's largest country and economy is focused on reviving its once thriving agricultural sector. It has five genetically engineered crops ...
Cause for concern over claims of “dangerous” glyphosate in wine, breast milk, cereal, etc.?
There is far less reason to worry about the 'dangers' of glyphosate when compared to other pesticide but many activists ...
Is the herbicide glyphosate, often paired with GMOs, especially dangerous?
Why do advocacy groups campaign against the herbicide glyphosate and not other far more toxic agricultural pesticides? ...
Organics v conventional v GMOs: Debate grows over farm yields and sustainability
Dubious research supports claims that organic systems can close the yield gap with conventional (and GMO) farming. Obsession with organic ...
GMOs’ innovation crisis: AquaBounty salmon’s 20-year odyssey through nets of regulations
Why are there no GMO animals on the market? Here is a case study: Two decades after the FDA began ...
Scientists’ ‘Open Letter’ to NY Times’ Public Editor brightlines Danny Hakim’s ‘misleading’ GMO article
Seven prominent scientists and academicians from around the world challenge the New York Times' ethics editor to correct the public ...
Could glyphosate cause other health problems even if it’s not carcinogenic?
GMO skeptics have raised health concerns about glyphosate beyond claims, proven unfounded, that they cause cancer. Here is what the ...
Myth busting on ‘contamination’: GMO farms’ halo effect often protects organic farms
Some organic farmers worry that their farms can be ‘contaminated’ by modified crops grown nearby. But no organic farmers in ...
Does the herbicide glyphosate cause cancer? The GLP does a deep dive into the science
Glyphosate--an herbicide pioneered by Monsanto but now off patent--has emerged as a proxy for critics of crop biotechnology and intensive ...
European scientist: WHO’s IARC faces scrutiny over glyphosate cancer designation
One of the World Health Organization's cancer research bodies faces increasing criticism because of its questionable categorizations of numerous safe ...
How to save Monarch butterflies? Banning glyphosate and planting milkweeds won’t help
According to activists, the decline of the Monarch butterfly population is primarily due to the over application of the popular ...
Has WHO’s IARC cancer agency, partly funded by US, outlived its usefulness?
The International Agency for Research on Cancer has come under fire from scientists, regulators, and journalists for recently concluding that ...
Why Danny Hakim’s New York Times GMO exposé misleads
An agricultural economist analyzes the New York Times' takedown of GMO crops ...
Strawmen and selective statistics: Did The New York Times botch its critique of GMO crops?
An opinion piece maintaining that the current generation of GMO crops has under delivered in yield and led to increased ...
GMO advocate at faux Monsanto tribunal: My registration canceled and I was forcibly removed
Just before the Monsanto Tribunal began, David Zaruk held an event entitled Voice of Farmers, featuring talks from four farmers ...
Stonyfield’s Gary Hirshberg raised more than half million dollars to try to ‘buy’ Clinton’s support for mandatory GMO labels
Several emails between Gary Hirshberg and Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta released by WikiLeaks expose Hirshberg’s aggressive approach to push ...
Buzz Kill: How the Sierra Club uses scare tactics about bee health and twists the science to raise money
The Sierra Club, once venerated for its problem-solving approach to environmental issues, has become a shrill campaigner against many modern ...
Farmer’s advice on discussing GMOs with skeptics: Less confrontation, more understanding
A recent report says most Canadians don’t know what “GMO” means, but still believe it to means something bad. A ...
Hawaii organic researcher Hector Valenzuela conspired with anti-GMO groups to harass Kevin Folta
Hector Valenzuela created a 32-page dossier on University of Florida professor Kevin Folta and GMO Free USA appears to have ...
GenØk: How Norway came to revile GMOs
Through poorly designed studies on water fleas, the Norwegian Institute of Gene Ecology has fueled confusion and fear of GMOs ...
2016 Presidential Race: Clinton, Trump, Stein, and Johnson on Food, Farming and GMOs
Here is a GMO policy primer, lining up not just Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but also Libertarian Party candidate ...
Alison Van Eenennaam: Anti-GMO activists target public scientists
As the mock trial circus winds down in the Hague, fringe anti-GMO activists plan to reinvigorate their targeting of independent ...
Australian chemical agency joins EPA, Canada, Europe in rejecting IARC’s glyphosate cancer claim
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, which serves as the country's chemical regulatory agency, has concluded that the herbicide glyphosate ...
‘Crimes Against Humanity’? Who is behind the International Monsanto Tribunal circus?
Anti-GMO activists are gathering at The Hague this weekend to “hold Monsanto accountable for human-rights violations, for crimes against humanity, ...
IARC under fire: Congressman presses investigation of US taxpayer-funded UN cancer agency
Chaffetz, who is the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says IARC has a "record of controversy, ...
