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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Dietician’s concerns over GMOs prompt embrace of organic foods
As a dietitian, I rarely recommend anything to a client that I wouldn't do myself. So when it came to ...
Hawaii legislators’ anti-GMO campaigns support ‘trendy activism’ while creating more problems
Dear Senator Brian Schatz and Representative Tulsi Gabbard, This week has definitely been a bomb of a week with the ...
Univ of Florida scientists say anti-GMO public sentiment having ‘detrimental’ effect on crop research
University of Florida researchers are making significant advances in genetic engineering — breeding strawberries, papayas and tomatoes that are disease-resistant ...
How private, profit-driven investment shapes GM industry
Research into GM crops has always been largely driven by the private sector, even though a 2000 report from the Commonwealth Biotechnology ...
GMO ‘super banana’ aims to tackle food security by addressing malnutrition
Scientists are hoping to improve food security through greater yields and less waste, particularly in the face of climate change, ...
Rust threatening wheat crops worldwide could be thwarted with genetics, but anti-GMO fervor remains challenge
Scientists worldwide are racing to develop rust-resistant wheat varieties before wheat crops worldwide succumb to the deadly disease, wheat rust ...
Critical evaluation of Ecuadorian worker study suggesting glyphosate might cause extensive health problems
Recently a concerned mother reached out to me[Chair of the University of Florida Horticultural Sciences program Kevin Folta] about information on ...
Parents seeking non-GMO foods driving organic sales
Parents' desires to avoid genetically modified organisms (GMO) are partially driving the increased sales of organic products, according to a ...
Dispute over use of GM seeds in El Salvador cited as cause of delay on aid package
Even as the White House scrambles to deal with the flood of child migrants from Central America, a $277 million ...
Anti-GMO sentiments lean to ‘obsessive’ in Arizona
His story is typical of those who preach the dangers of eating genetically modified organisms: Four years ago, Jared Keen ...
Superchicken? Researchers turn to genetics to breed global warming tolerant fowls
For all the concern about how climate change may affect people in cities, people in cars, people and their flood ...
Avoid ‘failed’ GM crop approach to combat ‘superweeds’
Donnelle Eller's eye-opening article on glyphosate-resistant Superweeds details a real threat to Iowa agriculture and raises important questions about responsibility and ...
New generation of eco-friendly, more healthful genetically modified crops
Most of us who are advocates for sustainable agriculture have a negative view of GMO’s, and with good reason – they ...
Oppostion to GM crops counter-productive to environment, economy and consumer
The news that Britain could soon grow genetically modified crops commercially is a victory for commonsense over irrational opportunism, and ...
Campaign launched to discredit Bill Gates backed vitamin A-enriched GMO banana
The latest nonsense emanating from the Anti camp is this from our friends at GMOFreeUSA: “GMO proponents claim that they ...
Cornell scientist says GMO label would encourage consumers to eat less processed foods
In the short term, the produce industry would probably benefit from legislation requiring foods containing GMOs be labeled as such, ...
Herbicide-resistant crops can exacerbate ‘superweeds’ but new GM versions can help control problem
The growing problem of herbicide-resistant weeds has weed scientists and regulators pushing for more solutions to tackle the problem, including ...
Saskatchewan 4th-generation wheat farmer calls for access to biotechnology
I’m a fourth-generation wheat farmer in Saskatchewan—and one of my longterm goals is to make sure the fifth generation on my ...
Inconclusive results of republished Séralini GM corn toxicity study warrant further research
In 2012, a study was released that seemed at first glance to justify every anti-GMO advocate's worst fears: eating genetically ...
Examining Environmental Sciences Europe, journal that republished Séralini study
Following the publication of a retracted study claiming that genetically modified corn and the herbicide glyphosate causes tumors in rats, ...
Zimbabwe would gain from engaging in debate, rather than seeking GM food ban
Food, politics and health have once again come together in a media-friendly cocktail. Two thought-pieces with opposing views on Genetically ...
Changing climates, mixing genes: Global warming may cause an increase in animal hybrids
A warming climate is shrinking many species' (e.g. polar bears, Bicknell's thrushes) habitats, to their detriment. It's also forcing many ...
View from Quebec organic farm: Don’t knock our science-based technologically advanced methods
Julie Borlaug, the daughter of the father of the Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, recently criticized organic farming as scientifically anachronistic ...
Future of biofortified foods: Protests block advancement of super bananas and Golden Rice
Can biofortified crops really do any good in the world? Only if both sides of the biotech debate work together ...
In shedding GMOs, Ben & Jerry’s determined to ‘stick a finger’ in Monsanto’s eye
Ben & Jerry's efforts to support GMO labeling and to remove GMOs from their ice cream displeased some loyal customers, ...
GM meat in development but politics, consumer concerns pose high hurdles
There are no genetically engineered animals sold for human consumption right now. The only candidate that's anywhere close, AquaBounty's fast-growing ...
