Food & Agriculture 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
The problem with GM is Big Business
The safety concerns of GM food will not go away while GMOs are developed for-profit, argues John Vidal, environment editor ...
Conventional food vs. organic
Maria Rodale calls for empirical research on how growing methods impact a food's nutritional content ...
Mark Lynas: Liar and corporate shill?
Anti-GMO activists accuse Mark Lynas of inflating his role in the anti-GMO movement, as well as accepting payoffs from a ...
Can a rose catch your cold? Threat of ‘killer’ viral plant gene is latest anti-GMO rant
The latest "greatest danger to ever face humanity" has emerged from an obscure, technical study in GM Crops & Foods, ...
The myth of India’s ‘GM genocide’
Several news outlets are reporting that GM crops are causing a wave suicides in Indian farmers, but the theory isn't ...
Can biotechnology be open-source?
As the Supreme Court watches Monsanto battle small farmers over GMO patent rights, some are suggesting that open-source biotechnology could ...
How one activist’s apology changes the GMO debate
In the wake of Mark Lynas' public apology, the challenge now posed to environmentalists is to rely on science everywhere ...
GMOs and The Mark Lynas Conversion: Round Two Roundup
The GLP digs through the fallout from Mark Lynas's public "conversion" from anti-GMO to pro-science activist ...
Washington State GMO labeling efforts are light on science
Anti-GMO groups in Washington state, whose citizens will vote on a labeling law next November, are presenting deceptive information about ...
Getting GM salmon to dinner table faces political hurdles
Now that the FDA has declared GM salmon safe to eat, the fish could become more abundant and less expensive ...
Center for Genetics in Society excuses White House politicization of FDA, blasts GM salmon
The Biopolitical Times attacks GLP for reporting that the White House illegally and unethically intervened in a scientific review process ...
White House lifts political block on GE salmon
The Food and Drug Administration today released an electronic version of its Environmental Assessment for a genetically modified (GM) salmon ...
Is the White House interfering with a scientific review?
Leaked documents from the FDA suggest that the first transgenic animal to be considered for federal approval in the U.S ...
The global transgenic menagerie
Both sides of the debate over genetic modification in animals -- AquaBounty's “Frankenfish” salmon included -- tend to make it ...
FDA AquaBounty Draft Environmental Assessment Summary
Here are the four leaked pages of the April 19, 2012 FDA AquaBounty Draft Environmental Assessment Summary ...
Australian debate over Seralini paper continues
The Australian anti-GMO NGO Safe Food Foundation has reaffirmed its support for the much-derided Seralini paper in the wake of ...
Justice Department ends Monsanto Investigation
While we were celebrating Thanksgiving, Monsanto had much to be thankful for, too. Last month, the Department of Justice quietly ...
Biotech regulation: Are democracy and science in conflict?
Why do GMOs fester in regulatory limbo for so long? Any regulatory agency attempting to address both science and people’s ...
Justice Department ends Monsanto Investigation
While we were celebrating Thanksgiving, Monsanto had much to be thankful for, too. Last month, the Department of Justice quietly ...
India’s GM food hypocrisy
India's relationship with genetic engineering in agriculture is in total disarray, the victim of activists' scaremongering and government pandering ...
Kenya issues blanket GMO ban
Kenya, one of the first African countries to legalize GM technology, used to be recognized as a leader in that ...
USDA urges consideration of GMO crop insurance; Organic farmers howl
The USDA's new report, “Enchancing Coexistence,” advocates a crop insurance pilot program for farmers harmed by cross-pollination from GM crops ...
Misrepresentations dogged both sides of Prop 37 campaign
The Yes on 37 campaign argued that it lost due to “lies, dirty tricks, and $45 million” spent by the ...
Scientists respond to controversial Séralini maize study
The fallout continues over the questionable study by French molecular biologist Gilles-Eric Seralini of rats fed genetically engineered rice. Food ...
Prop 37 defeated: a retrospective
California's Proposition 37 -- which would have required labeling of genetically modified foods -- failed to pass last night. While ...
Prop 37: An initiative in need of its own warning label
Prop 37 doesn’t deliver what it promises. It's plagued with inconsistencies about what qualifies for a label. Prop 37 isn’t ...
Mother Jones makes case against Prop 37
California's Proposition 37, a ballot initiative that would require the labeling of genetically modified foods, is coming down to the ...
