Sustainability & Climate Change
Food production needs are expected to roughly double over the next 35 years as the world population grows and people in under developed countries become more affluent and demand more calories. Healthy ecosystems are vital to the survival of all organisms. How can we grow crops without harming the environment? How can we balance technology and global food security? What is the right balance of organic and conventional farming? What role can genetics and biotechnology play without compromising the needs of tomorrow?
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Consumer groups and businesses ask USDA to tighten GMO regulations
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Drought-resistant crops could mitigate water shortages and climate challenges
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Indian agricultural progress smothered by anti-GMO idealists
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Organic food sales driven by vilification of GMOs
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South African anti-GMO activists hide fact drought-tolerant maize would be royalty-free
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A warning for science teachers? Biotech scientists and the Freedom of Information Act
A several months ago, scientists came under attack using the Freedom of Information Act. Scientist Kevin Folta tweeted this graphic that has ...
Biotech-enriched omega-3 soybeans could promote ocean sustainability
Omega-3 fatty oils, mainly derived from fish, are essential for nutrition. The problem is that there’s not enough fish to ...
Virus-resistant cassava could join other GMO crops in battling food insecurity and climate change
Nigel Taylor spreads apart the wilted and discolored leaves of a cassava plant. He wants us to see its sickness ...
Debate over GMOs and other science controversies should center more in values and politics
Looking upon all the polarized rhetoric concerning vaccines, GMO crops, climate change, and processed foods one might be tempted to ...
GMO Bt cotton can increase Indian farmer bankruptcy, suicide risk, claims study
The cultivation of Bt cotton, a genetically modified, insect-resistant cotton variety, is a risky affair for Indian farmers practising rain-fed ...
Plant geneticist Pamela Ronald on why organic farming can benefit from advanced genetics
Pamela Ronald is a professor at the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center at UC Davis. Ronald is also the ...
Newsmax unmasked: How scare stories are manufactured by right wing anti-GMO activists
Anti-GMO propaganda production usually emerges from leftist environmental and activist groups. But they have no peer in the pseudo-science emanating ...
Diet must change to put end to factory farming
From the look of things, you’d be correct in thinking that a revolution in food production was underway. Calls for ...
Talking Biotech: Life-saving banana for Uganda; Grape domestication and improvement
Engineering bananas: James Dale; Genetic improvement of grapes: Sean Myles ...
Hollywood celebrities embrace pseudoscience, promote anti-GMO movie “Consumed”
Even as the consensus on the safety of GMO foods grows, a faction in Hollywood appears to be lining up ...
Whole Foods rating system highlights hypocrisy of organic food claims
Whole Foods has concocted a rating system for produce and flowers called “Responsibly Grown.” It takes into consideration such factors ...
Vermont GMO labeling law could cost grocers millions daily
Vermont’s first-in-the-nation law requiring the labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms could cost the nation’s grocers up to ...
Federal judge to decide whether Maui has authority to ban GMOs
A federal judge said that the key question before her in lawsuits related to a Maui County ban on the ...
Former UK ag minister: Neil Young ‘tragically wrong” on GMOs
Neil Young is following the lead of activists who claim that GMOs are harmful to health, farmers and the environment. This ...
Organic pesticides substituted for ‘dangerous’ neonicotinoids found far more toxic to bees
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Non-GMO trend driven by emotion over food fads like ‘gluten free’
Ilene Gordon, Fortune 500 CEO of Ingredion, said the non-GMO movement was driven more by consumer sentiment than hard scientific evidence ...
Organic industry and other funders behind Séralini’s anti-GMO studies
Financial support for the release and publicity of the laboratory animal feeding study by Gilles-Eric Séralini comes from a range ...
Scientist deconstructs Séralini’s PLOS GMO study: ‘Failed attempt at redemption’
Séralini's latest paper is a thinly veiled attempt to address the consensus scientific criticism of his previous work, retracted by ...
The anti-Rachel Parent: 10-year-old future scientist counters sea of GMO misinformation
Anti-GMO events are peppered with children holding signs touting the alleged dangers of genetically modified foods. For those who choose ...
Activists claim WHO glyphosate reassessment “nail in coffin’ to glyphosate and GMOs
Could it be that the World Health Organisation's classification of glyphosate as a 'probable carcinogen' (Glyphosate 'Probably Carcinogenic to Humans' ...
Monsanto throws weight behind voluntary GMO labeling bill
Monsanto Co. and other biotechnology giants are throwing support behind a bill to create new national standards for genetically engineered ...
Myth busting Foodie Farmer: Do conventional farmers “douse” fields in chemicals?
Conventional farmers, especially those who grow genetically modified crops, are often accused of "dousing" or "drowning" their fields in chemical ...
