Sustainability/Climate Change
Cult of Biodynamics: Future of farming or agrarian organic witchcraft?
Biodynamic agriculture is a method of organic farming that rejects many aspects of modern agriculture including genetic engineering, originally developed ...
Biotech could blunt predicted devastation of climate change
A study of wheat yields by 53 researchers on six continents, including a Kansas State University professor, has found that ...
Owen Paterson: ‘Anti-GMO stance of Green Blob, Greenpeace condemn poor to starvation, death
Former UK environment secretary goes on the attack against what he says are modern Luddites: Greenpeace and the ministers of ...
VIDEO: Are GM foods dangerous? Renowned science reporter takes on anti-GMO fundamentalists
The British YouTube rationalist and renowned ex-BBC Radio 4 and CBC science reporter with a degree in geology debunks pseudoscience, ...
Food Babe’s shocking news: Food has chemicals in it!
“I couldn’t believe there was beaver’s ass in my vanilla ice cream, coal tar in my mac and cheese, yoga ...
Orthorexia: Food Babe’s eating disorder
“There is just no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever.” – Vani Hari A.K.A. Food Babe Everything is ...
Anti-GMO fervor forcing ag companies to focus innovation on non-GMO technologies
The whole concept of genetically modified organisms is a political hot potato. You don’t need me to remind you of ...
Disgust over ‘unnaturalness’ of GMOs prime reason for opposition
Feelings of disgust are often immune to rationality. And with good reason: evolutionarily, disgust is an incredibly adaptive, life-saving reaction. We find ...
Fruit tree gene could prevent GM cross-pollination with other plants
Genetically modified crops have long drawn fire from environmentalists, who worry that there could be contamination of organic food or ...
Rep. DeFazio misleadingly links monarch butterfly decline solely to GMOs
Monarch butterflies are an unexpected victim of the widespread adoption of genetically modified crops, Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., said last ...
Where’s the beef (and fat)? Are you ready for a juicy ‘test tube’ burger?
Lab created beef offers the possibility of ending the breeding of livestock for slaughter--and the ability to produce in vitro ...
Organic agriculture’s low yields aren’t sustainable
The United Nations has estimated that food production will need to nearly double from 2008 levels by the year 2050 to ...
Non-browning apple approved … Now comes the scare campaign?
The "rubber stamp" of regulatory approval, that takes millions of dollars and more than a decade to get, has been finally bestowed ...
Does it contain GMOs or protect rainforests? App scans food, provides label alternative
A new smartphone app may help concerned consumers bring social and environmental justice to the grocery store by supplying information ...
Confession of liberal, organic food consumer-scientist: ‘I support GMOs’
I love organic food. My “significant other” cooks and eats only organic and I love her food. My confession: I ...
Mother Jones’s missed opportunity to reverse GMO safety consensus denialism
A year ago, Mother Jones published a balanced report on crop biotechnology, embracing the global consensus that GMOs are safe--a ...
Truth about small farmers: They can’t make a living
I wondered how many small farmers, like myself, actually made a living. I looked into national statistics. Only the largest ...
Zero tolerance policies on GMO “contamination” hurt organic and conventional farmers alike
Neighboring organic farmers and GMO farmers struggle to coexist amid fears of gene flow through cross pollination. Yet agricultural scientists ...
No climate benefit to biofuel crops
Nearly all of the studies that have been used to promote the deployment of biofuels over the past two decades ...
Mimicking Climategate, anti-GMO activists fund legal attack on biotech academics
US Right to Know, funded mostly by organic activists, is using the Freedom of Information Act to target scientists it ...
So can we really feed the world? Yes — and here’s how
Over the past six months I’ve been trying to figure out how we can feed ourselves sustainably and equitably without ...
Food sovereignty group sues Ghanian government over GM crop trials
Civil Society Group, Food Sovereignty Ghana has sued Government at the Human Rights Court, seeking an interim injunction on the ...
Cloned white Angus could double beef production in 10 years
Dr. James West, associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University and chief science officer of CAG, has developed a way ...
Rethinking “pro-GMO” and “anti-GMO” labels
Journalists and commentators often use the terms "anti-GMO" and "pro-GMO" as shorthand to guide the reader through ideological thickets. But ...
The Original Frankenfoods: Origins of Our Fear of Genetic Engineering
The anti-GMO community has gotten a lot of propaganda mileage out of demonizing GM crops as Frankenstein's creation. GLP guest ...
Will Tanzania follow Burkina Faso in embracing GM crops to fight ravaging diseases?
There is a groundswell of popular support for crop biotechnology among African farmers, with Uganda and Burkina Faso the most ...