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
‘Know GMO’ documentary, filming in Africa, challenges anti-GM scare campaign
Documentary filmmakers travel to Uganda with hopes of bringing better understanding based on facts, evidence and science to the greater ...
How supercomputers and plant genetics provide farmers better seeds
Without advanced computing, the secrets of plant genetics would go largely untapped ...
Next-generation genetic engineering must address public fears
Next generation innovations for genetic modification of food and medicine face an uncertain future. Avoiding the public acceptance failures that ...
Activists blame scientists, GMOs for dying iconic Italian olive trees, block GM solution
Olive trees in Italy are falling victim to a new bacteria. Scientific solutions are being replaced by hysteria, blocking GMO ...
Empower seeds through meditation? India’s Ag Minister endorses peace, love and Yogic Agriculture
Forget fertilizer; if you send tomatoes good vibrations of “peace, love and divinity” they will grow more vigorously ...
Australian National Press Club: Sustainability benefits of industrial agriculture
In a nationally televised address, a call for intensifying the commitment to science based sustainable agriculture and genetic engineering--and a ...
Does the organic led anti-GMO campaign have race-related undertones?
The most visible symbol of the US organic movement calls the American food system "apartheid, food slavery and [a] food ...
Full IARC glyphosate report released; Anti-GMO target may have health benefits
Glyphosate is well known as a comparatively mild pesticide but has become a target of anti-GMO activists. They may be ...
Georgia’s Wayne Parrott: ‘Time to end transparency double-standard targeting biotech scientists’
I have long been a firm believer that any public scientist who cannot explain, defend and justify his/her work to ...
Anti-GMO activists use FOIA to bully mother-scientist nutrition and lactation expert
USRTK has wielded FOIA requests as a weapon to bully scientists. Michelle McGuire, a globally respected nutrition expert, is the ...
Latin American GMO powerhouse Brazil expands portfolio of crops with intro of new herbicide resistant soy
Brazil pushes forward in its GMO development program, approving a new herbicide resistant soybean. About 90% of Brazilian soy and ...
Biotech researchers concerned FOIA requests could chill public outreach
Publicly funded researchers have become integrated into public relations and lobbying efforts by both agricultural biotechnology and organic companies, according ...
Big Organic and Big Ag both fund expenses, research as GMO debate intensifies
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article from The New York Times to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and ...
Anti-GMO myth busted—We’re not losing plant genetic diversity after all
Anti-GMO activists and even some science publications claim GMOs are accelerating the trend toward a drastic loss in biodiversity. They ...
Bees to birds: Have neonics and other pesticides ushered in a bird apocalypse?
The hysteria generated by a select group of advocacy scientists warning that bees are endangered is now being focused on ...
Sustainable potato that resists blight given green light by USDA, but anti-GMO activists remain opposed
Sustainable potato that reduces browning and bruising and lowers presence of potentially cancer-causing chemical now has added benefit of resisting ...
“Big Food” (Goliath) lobbies and “Good Food” (David) doesn’t? Don’t believe the propaganda
Food politics rage in Washington over who spends more on lobbying: Big Food or Big Organics. Here's the skinny on ...
Can Bernie Sanders act like a progressive on GMOs, overcome tribal allegiances, embrace science?
The desire to eat organic and the opposition to genetic modification technology in agriculture can be primal and precautionary to ...
UK House of Commons: Greenpeace, anti-GM activists distort science on GMOs, calls for deregulation
A UK House of Commons report lashed out at anti-GMO advocacy groups for misapplying the 'precautionary principle' to the GM ...
Science moms to celebrity moms: Let’s discuss GMOs, farming, safety and health together
The anti-GMO movement moved away long ago from grounded positions in science to promoting fear, and using celebrities as their ...
Kevin Folta’s Florida colleague reflects on conflicts in biotech communication outreach
A fellow professor of Dr. Kevin Folta at the University of Florida analyzes the controversy over genetic literacy outreach and ...
Seed bank advantages lost in fog of anti-GMO war
While anti GMO activists push for organics, a complimentary answer to feeding the world may lie in seed banks. Only ...
Kevin Folta responds to anti-GMO FOIA fiasco: PLoS bungled post misrepresents smoking gun email
Paul Thacker and Charles Seife--aligned with anti-GMO organic financed USRTK--claimed that a leaked document 'proved' Florida prof 'advised' Monsanto on ...
Activists threaten adoption of virus resistant GMO cassava that could rescue Africa’s staple
Anti-GMO activists caught spreading scare stories and lies about virus resistant and nutritionally enhanced GMO cassava ...
GMO-vaccine parallel? Biotech supporters learn from campaign that turned tide on anti-vaxxers
Supporters of GMOs aren't facing headwinds in swaying the public, but pro-science success in beating back anti-vax ideologues may provide ...
Pollinator myth: Are bees responsible for one third of global food, heightening crisis? More like 7%
Aren’t bees responsible for a third of the world’s food, and 90 percent of global nutrition — claims invoked by ...
Nutritionist Michelle McGuire responds to attacks in wake of ‘glyphosate not in milk’ study
Washington State lactation scientist target of USTRK FOIA and anti-GMO activist attacks after finding glyphosate not in human breast milk ...
