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: How ‘dark money’ donor advised foundations partner with tort lawyers, the organic industry and activist environmental funds to manipulate the media and target conventional agriculture
A herbicide company pays $25,000 to a pro-GMO plant biologist’s university for six months of travel expenses and the activist ...
Varroa mites, not pesticides, are by far the largest threat to honeybee health. Developing RNAi technology shows promise in addressing that crisis
Pictures of honeybees show up in prehistoric cave paintings, one stretching back 8,000 years ago in Spain. The ancient Egyptians were ...
GLP Spaces on X: Deadly Thin Mints? $5 million chemical tort scam targets Girl Scout cookies
Tired of chasing ambulances and suing chemical companies, tort lawyers have identified a new villain: the Girl Scouts. You may ...
Push for transparency in research: Corporations and academic institutions under pressure to advance public disclosure
If you Google my name along with “Monsanto,” you will find a series of allegations from 2013 that my scholarly ...
Viewpoint: Kill Prop 65—It’s past time to ditch California’s science-twisting and misguided attacks on safe-as-used chemicals
Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s announced “much-needed” agricultural ‘reforms’ are ‘indiscriminate’, ‘contradict the administration’s stated priorities’ and ‘undermine American innovation’
The early days of Donald Trump’s second presidential term saw a record number of executive orders, an almost immediate freeze ...
Viewpoint: Food security vs. sustainability aspirations—Reality hijacks European Green Deal advocates
The EU aimed to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050 with the European Green Deal (GDR) announced in December ...
GLP Spaces on X: Raw milk—a crunchy, countercultural food fad goes right wing
Raw milk. Once a crunchy, progressive cause is now a rallying cry for "food freedom," with Republican lawmakers pushing legislation ...
European Union takes giant leap forward toward embracing technologically-enhanced agriculture, advances de-regulation of gene edited crops
European Member States' representatives endorsed the European Council's negotiating mandate on the regulation on plants obtained by new genomic techniques ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the agricultural misinformation zealots—Sustainable agriculture requires judicious weed management and crop chemicals
Any discussion of crop chemicals must consider the broad sweep of agricultural history, the pivotal moments of technological innovation, and ...
Viewpoint: MIT computer scientist (frequently cited by RFK. Jr.) predicted that by 2025 50% of all U.S. children would be born autistic due to glyphosate exposure. She was off by only 1600%
In the annals of failed doomsday predictions, Dr. Stephanie Seneff’s claim that half of all U.S. children would be autistic ...
Viewpoint: Environmental activists, food elitists and trial lawyers profiterring on science disinformation put American farmers and U.S. agricultural policy at risk.
Food elitists contend America's farmers and ranchers have lost their way. They want to overturn the system for food production ...
Overreaction or ‘about time’: RFK, Jr. targets food dyes and other additives. Here’s a balanced take on their aesthetics and safety
HHS secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told top food executives on March 10 that one of his top priorities would ...
Viewpoint: Attack of the thin mints? Why Moms Across America (MAA) claims of ‘dangeous’ pesticide residues in Girl Scout Cookies are wrong and insidious
For generations, it's been a cherished part of American life: the excited Girl Scouts at their cookie booths, the ritual ...
Egg industry scrambling: Today’s Neros fiddle as the bird flu crisis deepens while politicians and ideologues ignore solutions to the crisis
A bulldozer belches a black cloud of exhaust as the engine revs. A mound of dead chickens flops into a ...
Larding the word ‘overweight’? Social activist post-modernists target ’obesity’ as unnecessarily judgmental
Once the social justice movement began its rampage through our culture, it was only a matter of time before it ...
Here’s how to transform regenerative agriculture from an ideology into data and outcome-based agriculture that delivers on its promise
The recent publication of the SAI Platform’s global framework document for defining and measuring the outcomes of regenerative agriculture provides ...
GLP podcast: Tort lawyers are destroying US science and medicine
In a nation once heralded as the crucible of scientific breakthroughs and medical marvels, US tort lawyers are now wielding ...
Viewpoint: Activists claiming that the global food system under produces and undermines global food security are wrong, and here’s why
Our food system is not broken! Faced with claims that we should shift our agricultural systems to embrace more agroecological ...
Viewpoint: The v-Fluence attack file—How the Environmental Working Group undermines science, destroys careers and harms the environment
Just before Christmas Day, 2024, three months after a mendacious, coordinated activist onslaught, the communications consultancy, v- Fluence, began the ...
Popcorn was ‘invented’ at least 6700 years ago
You have to wonder how people originally figured out how to eat some foods that are beloved today. The cassava ...
Glyphosate, conspiracy and Scientology: Church’s messy relationship with RFK, Jr. raises awkward questions about its influence on US science policy going forward
Although the public is largely unaware, the controversial Church of Scientology has injected itself into the middle of the contentious ...
Regulatory roadblocks set up decades ago hindering the adoption of sustainability-enhancing gene edited crops
Hardly a day goes by without another piece praising the potential for gene editing to help solve climate change.1 Nevertheless, ...
Can eating too much protein hurt us?
Today’s high-protein diet takes many forms. From the Atkins diet to the paleo diet and even some versions of the keto diet, protein is ...
Our canine companions—What an adorable amalgamation of recessive genes
Dogs sometimes seem like they’ve been genetically engineered in a lab to be the perfect human companion. Unfortunately, for some ...
GLP podcast: Will Trump let RFK, Jr. ‘go wild on the food’? A farmer forecasts the future of US agriculture
Tew Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has never hesitated to attack modern agriculture. Though most ...
What’s ‘sustainable abundance’ and how can we deploy technological innovation to achieve it?
We're at a decisive moment. Throughout history, each generation faces unique challenges and opportunities, perceiving their times as unprecedented. This ...
