Sustainability/Climate Change
FOIA: Organic industry, Chuck Benbrook orchestrated anti-GMO “independent” research, marketing
FOIA released emails show that the former university professor whose research is the lynchpin of the anti-GMOs industry's public case ...
Talking Biotech: GMO corn experiment for everybody; Sugar beet domestication and breeding
Biology Fortified's public GMO wildlife corn eating experiment; Plant geneticist Lee Panella talks sugar beets ...
Why Norman Borlaug is a hero
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Most people in the ...
Gene modification does not destroy ‘natural’ food system, could promote organic farming
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Traditional breeding changes the ...
Nature Biotech: US Right to Know, Organic Consumers are “demagogues”, “anti-science zealots”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Smear campaigns against those ...
CRISPR gene edited food headed for dinner plates?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Agricultural biotech giants are ...
What TPP means for agricultural greenhouse gas emissions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The TPP opened North ...
A co-existence peace plan for GMOs and organics
Could organic and GM farming step past the rhetoric and vitriol, and co-exist? The science says yes ...
GMO technology that saved Montana’s sugar beets now tarnishing their reputation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Montana's sugar beet industry faces ...
Some speculate glyphosate leading to deer population decline as corn fields get less weedy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whitetails have thrived in ...
India farmers’ ‘seeds of suicide’: 200-year old story behind a modern tragedy
Anti-GMO activists have linked a spate of suicides to the introduction of GMO cotton in 2002. But the tragedy is ...
Nassim Taleb’s Precautionary Principle nonsense and warped “GMO” pseudo-category
Expertise in economic, statistics and stock market risk does not translate into competent analysis about biotechnology and food ...
Reality of organic food doesn’t match pastoral image
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The organic farming movement ...
Crop diversity declining in US, but trend could be quickly reversed
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A new study published last month ...
Common organic pesticides (biopesticides) found ‘acutely toxic’ to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The honey bee, Apis ...
Glyphosate: Real risks, benefits of poster child for GMO debate
PHThe GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s hard to talk ...
Regenerative Organic Agriculture claims to ‘heal nature’, ‘give life deeper meaning’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. My Father, Robert Rodale, ...
‘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 ...
Talking Biotech: Talking chemophobia with SciBabe; Kevin Folta answers questions
SciBabe Yvette d’Entremont on chemophobia, glyphosate and Don Huber; Folta discusses biotech ...
How supercomputers and plant genetics provide farmers better seeds
Without advanced computing, the secrets of plant genetics would go largely untapped ...
Ecomodernist environmentalist movement stumbles in European rollout
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In late September, I and ...
Energy Dept. funds epigenetic project on sorghum response to drought
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. UC Berkeley is leading a ...
Most people aren’t farmers, easily scared by spin about GMOs, modern agriculture
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Modern farming is remote. Though ...
Organic food gets less ‘green’ as market goes global
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Soybeans from India, coconut ...
Talking Biotech: “Pesticides”—New frontier of agricultural biotechnology opposition
Chemical control expert Steve Savage on the targeting of chemicals by anti-GMO activists ...
Environmental impact of US corn, cotton crops halved in last decade thanks to GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. We applied life cycle ...