Newsletter GLP Food & Ag
How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy
Misinformation is rampant on social media. The science community has spent most of the last two years trying to slow ...
Global crop gene editing advances as numerous countries break from European Union’s restrictive policies
Great Britain has already decided to take the first steps, as has Switzerland: dealing with simple genome-edited plants will be ...
Viewpoint: How South Africa is bungling regulation of CRISPR and other gene edited crops — and why consumers will pay the price
Food security is a global priority – and it is becoming more urgent in the face of climate change, which is ...
Russian invasion of Ukraine portends a global food crisis—and the European Union’s Green Deal Farm to Fork Policy will only exacerbate it
Well before the Russian invasion began, I shared a shocking FAO statistic. Overall global food prices increased by almost 20% ...
Dangerous levels of glyphosate in urine? Junk science paper based upon a large-scale anti-GMO testing campaign
The public and journalists – the consumers of information about health – need to be aware of something that researchers ...
Viewpoint: Why is Germany hiring a former Greenpeace activist who reflexively opposed nuclear energy and genetic engineering as a climate advisor?
February 9, a headline caused a stir: Annalena Baerbock now employs Jennifer Morgan, the former head of Greenpeace, as special ...
Bumblebees are under threat. Here’s why we need to protect them
In a time of unprecedented species extinction, when seemingly every day brings news of yet another animal or plant on ...
Phenomenal progress in gene drive-based pest eradication
Gene drives are selfish genetic elements that are transmitted to progeny at super-Mendelian (>50%) frequencies. Recently developed CRISPR–Cas9-based gene-drive systems ...
Are GM foods safe? New study of studies challenges long-established claim that GMOs pose no unique health hazards. Let’s review what they found
Do GMOs adversely impact humans? Thousands of studies have been performed over the past 20 years attempting to answer in ...
Organic farming is both yield intense and more sustainable? BBC bungles revision of pro-organic ‘propaganda’ aimed at school children
Despite an investigation by BBC’s rural affairs broadcaster Tom Heap, the network continues to peddle fact-challenged study guides promoting organic ...
How ‘agricultural intensification’ could cut global farm land use by almost 50%, increase biodiversity and help address climate change
In the context of trade-offs between land use and biodiversity, LMU geographers have simulated land saving potentials for agriculture. With ...
Viewpoint: What are the barriers limiting Africa from adopting genetically engineered and hybrid-improved seeds?
Over the last 15 years, development organizations including USAID, the UK’s DFID, and most prominently the Gates Foundation, have invested millions ...
Viewpoint: How Consumer Reports offers up a dish of bad and biased advice about what we should eat, and why
Consumer Reports (CR) promotes itself as an unbiased source of a wide variety of product ratings. It also publishes Should ...
Latin America’s embrace of gene editing positions Americas to become global leader in agricultural innovation
Over the 25 years since the introduction of GM crops in Latin America, the continent has been a battleground between ...
‘Organic label doesn’t always mean safer,’ study finds: Spinosad insecticide more damaging to beneficial insects than synthetic imidacloprid neonicotinoid banned in Europe
Very low concentrations of the popular organic insecticide spinosad have profound effects on beneficial insect species, including vision loss and ...
We may soon be able to genetically engineer a synthetic alternative to palm oil, helping to preserve biodiversity. Here are the challenges
Tom Jeffries and Tom Kelleher met at Rutgers University in the 1970s while studying industrially useful microbes. Jeffries went on to ...
Viewpoint: Dissecting anti-science smears — Center for Media and Democracy spreads disinformation about food and science communication
At a time when democracy is threatened by a number of sources and media is a potent remedy or problem, ...
Do we need more risk studies to confirm the safety of genetically engineered crops?
The appeal of the 31 European Union parliamentarians [1,2] to the European Commission to provide funds for research on the ...
Video: Crops in space? With long space voyages on the horizon, NASA working on ways to grow food for astronauts
As astronauts venture farther from Earth, and for longer periods, food will become increasingly critical. Crop production can supplement a ...
Citrus greening crisis: How genetically engineered tools and other strategies might prevent total devastation of Florida’s orange and grapefruit industry
For more than two years, human society has been dealing with ramifications of the Covid-19 pandemic and that already feels ...
Viewpoint: Despite organic farming’s massive failures and extensive fraud, many people still think the ‘miracle of smaller yields’ will save the planet
Numerous headlines lately described a frightening scenario: during a global pandemic, the food security of Sri Lanka was put at ...
Viewpoint — Prince Charles’ ongoing rejection of GM, biotechnology-inspired crop advances is the latest example of celebrity disinformation on science
There are relatively few people in the world who possess sufficient gravitas that the media are prepared to publicize their ...
Viewpoint: How anti-GMO activists use select studies to ‘prove’ glyphosate is ‘dangerous’ and unnecessarily scare the public
If you want to show that any chemical is dangerous, here's a three-step process that will consistently yield the desired ...
Viewpoint: ‘Scientists seeking attention resort to promoting oversimplified food fads’ — Be cautious of clickbait claims that foods accelerate dementia
Can avoiding certain foods reduce your dementia risk? One nutritional psychiatrist seems to think so, but the evidence is much ...
Eating disorders: How advances in genetics and psychology are informing new treatments
In 2017, Hennie Thomson checked herself into a hospital for six weeks of in-patient treatment for anorexia nervosa. She was ...
Would widespread adoption of organic farming practices be a good idea from a climate change perspective?
Agriculture plays a complex role when it comes to climate change. Farming does contribute a significant share of certain greenhouse ...
Viewpoint: Environmentalist delusions? Why ‘progressive’ opposition to nuclear energy and crop biotechnology are the biggest obstacles to addressing climate change
In the recent Netflix smash hit Don’t Look Up, scientists try to warn the world about a comet hurtling towards ...
