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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Food scientist Bruce Chassy: Although some GMO sympathizers embrace labeling, it’s a disaster in waiting
A number of prominent journalists, who report fairly and objectively about GMO foods, are urging food and seed companies to ...
Israel warming to GMO crops as eco tech solution
Supplying food to a growing population without destroying the world’s ecological systems is one of humanity’s great challenges. Israel is ...
In push to snare low income shoppers, Whole Foods to put cigarette-like warnings on GMO foods
Whole Foods’ central conceit as a company is that it sells only the best, healthiest food—which sometimes requires paying more ...
McDonald’s won’t use GMO ‘Innate’ potatoes, people respond
McDonald’s announced that while the FDA approved a new genetically modified potato called the Innate potato, which has DNA that has ...
Could GMO potatoes be healthier than ones we’re eating?
Radio host Lars Larson interviewed Henry Miller, of Stanford University's Hoover Institution, about the new Innate potato developed by J.R. Simplot ...
Monsanto’s next horizon: Big Data
You probably know Monsanto as the world's leading producer of genetically engineered seeds—a global agribusiness giant whose critics accuse it ...
Non-GMO method boosts rice yields
Scientists at the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture have found that they can harness photosynthesis – the process ...
GMO crops increase yields, benefit the environment
Among the winners in this month’s elections were foods containing genetically modified organisms. And, it’s possible that labeling laws, if ...
Better organically-bred seeds could revolutionize food system
Wasn’t organic seed just seed plucked from plants grown without chemicals, and if so, what was the big deal? Even ...
Are GMOs creating disastrous superweed problem?
The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) has issued a new fact sheet to uproot common misconceptions about “superweeds”– a ...
Vandana Shiva: ‘Ambassador of famine’?
Vandana Shiva, the globally known Indian anti-GMO activist, positions herself as a seer guiding us away from the evils of ...
Gates funded genetically modified but non-GMO eco-rice rolls out across Asia, Africa
“Green Super Rice,” developed jointly by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and the International Rice Research Institute in the ...
Video: GMO opponents sue to block new Enlist Duo GMO corn and soybeans
Millions of acres of farmland in the U.S. have been affected by herbicide-resistant weeds. And the problem is spreading, which ...
Are Americans ready to resurrect the once ubiquitous ‘spreading chesnut tree’?
The relationship between the US public and genetically modified organisms is a bit ambiguous. That may change thanks to work taking ...
Web of companies that opposed mandatory labeling of GMOs
An extensive list of private companies that reject mandatory labeling ...
Poor should “eat less”? Millionaire designer Vivienne Westwood on anti-GMO campaign denies recording
Vivienne Westwood is denying that she told poor people who can't afford organic food to "eat less," even though a radio ...
Spray-on DNA bar codes help trace food-borne illnesses
If farms sprayed their unique DNA signature on foods, the source of contamination in food born outbreaks could be identified ...
Why don’t more farmers adopt organic methods? Ethics.
Organic food has quietly become a Big Ag juggernaut. Everyone talks aboutvideo games and the film industry, for example, but ...
Center for Food Safety on how to trash a healthier eco-friendly potato—It’s a GMO!
Cooking potatoes (and many foods) causes the Maillard reaction, an interaction of sugars and amino acids perhaps most familiar in ...
Keith Kloor’s Discover: Will Bill Nye agree to debate Kevin Folta on GMOs?
At Discover blogger Keith Kloor's invitation, University of Florida plant geneticist Kevin Folta wrote an open letter to Bill Nye ...
Largest GMO study in history confirms safety, cost benefits of GMOs
The largest GMO study in history, published last week in PLOS ONE, confirms that genetically modified crops have large, widespread benefits. The review ...
Singer Neil Young urges fans to boycott non-organic cotton over GMO fears
Neil Young, a popular classic rock artist and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall-of-Fame (he was in inducted ...
Sustainability advantages of Simplot’s GMO ‘Innate’ Potato
“The potato is one of a new wave of genetically modified crops that aim to provide benefits to consumers, not ...
Organic alert: Whole Foods almonds contain potentially ‘fatal’ natural chemical
Whole Foods is recalling a line of Organic Raw Almonds, due to elevated levels of a natural chemical, hydrogen cyanide, ...
Kevin Folta takes on South Florida Science Centers’ promotion of anti-science GMO ‘nonsense’
Over the past few weeks, the South Florida Science Center and Aquarium of West Palm Beach has been eagerly promoting a Thursday, ...
