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: 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 ...
Viewpoint: After an unexpected and controversial federal ruling, the regulatory future of gene edited crops in the US is cloudy
The use of molecular techniques to create genetically engineered (GE) crops has now become trapped in the over-regulation of a ...
Viewpoint: Fox News heads deeper down the science-ignorant fox hole
In the media, every food is either a magical cure-all or a hidden danger lurking in your pantry. Instead of ...
How climate change is altering the look, taste and nutrition content of fruits and vegetables
The economic cost of food waste in Australia is staggering. It’s estimated $36.6 billion is lost to the economy every year ...
Viewpoint: Courts challenge the contrived but growing relationship between trial lawyers and environmental activists
For a decade now, a brigade of climate zealots, flanked by their legal consiglieres, has been waging a shadow war ...
Viewpoint: Biotechnology rejectionists and many regenerative farming advocates maintain that the Green Revolution caused more harm than good. Here are the facts.
After the Second World War, regional famines began to occur. Believing that increasing agricultural performance can be the solution to ...
Viewpoint: How to devolutionize American food and agriculture—RFK, Jr. has a clear disaster of a plan. Don’t say we haven’t been warned
Before nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services, President Donald Trump promised to let him ...
Messy patent, regulatory and ideological battles lie ahead in Europe as push continues to legalize CRISPR crop gene editing
Modern gene-editing technology, such as CRISPR/Cas technology, represents a ground-breaking advancement that has transformed our genetic engineering capabilities and has ...
The humble potato is undergoing a genetic revolution. Here’s how and what that means
In a field near the Dutch village of Angeren, a biotechnology company named Solynta grows potatoes in square plots, about 16 ...
Precision agriculture: Promoted as a revolutionary improvement in farming, the promise is finally coming to fruition
For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock, or any other ...
The next ‘big thing’ in genetically modified crops: Drought-tolerant and herbicide resistant wheat. Here’s what you need to know
Archaeological evidence suggests that around 9,500 BCE, people in the Fertile Crescent began cultivating wheat as one of their first ...
Old Fashioned or aspartame sweetener: Which contains more dangerous chemicals?
Have you ever been to a snooty cocktail party and ordered a Diet Coke from the bar only to get the look? ...
