Newsletter GLP Food & Ag
How genetic engineering is creating more nutritious, healthier food and protecting crops from ravaging diseases
Despite the objections and protestations of the anti-GMO advocates who equate genetic engineering with “Frankenfoods” and utilize fear and scare ...
The reinvention of agriculture
Many people still have an outdated notion of what farming entails and are unaware how much it involves high technology ...
Viewpoint: Nuance in short supply as NYU’s Jennifer Jacquet and Civil Eats bungle meat industry’s role in global warming
Activists frequently assert that 'Big Meat' has tried to deny agriculture's contribution to climate change. Is there any truth to ...
With the US honeybee population stable, what are the challenges going forward?
There is a common phrase that appears in the popular press, in grant proposals and as a fund raising theme ...
Viewpoint: ‘Higher yields and sustainable intensification’ — Russian aggression resets perceptions and policy of global agriculture
When Russia brutally invaded the Ukraine in February 2022, war in the world’s breadbasket could only forebode greater tragedies to ...
Public trust, safety, and genetic engineering
Although the public is almost completely unaware, today, more than three-quarters of all food crops have been directly and dramatically ...
Was GMO critic Sheldon Krimsky ‘rigorous’ and ‘courageous’ as Ralph Nader and the NY Times claim? Or was the recently-deceased Tufts professor an anti-science crank?
Was Sheldon Krimsky a seer who appropriately warned about a lack of oversight of the biotechnology revolution, including the inherent ...
The bioengineered label replacing GMO claims has been in place for four months. Here’s what we know
You may have recently noticed new labels on some of your food. As of January 1st, 2022, the United States ...
How crop gene editing increases nutrition and sustainability
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were launched in 2015, with the top three goals being poverty eradication, improved food security ...
Sustainable GM farming innovation: How Argentina’s drought-tolerant genetically-engineered wheat reduces greenhouse gas emissions and increases yields
In October 2020, Argentina approved the world’s first genetically engineered wheat for cultivation and consumption. Production expanded dramatically in 2021, and will continue to ...
Viewpoint: GMO grapes could be engineered to cut pesticide use and reduce pest damage. Why are they not yet commercialized?
The standard story most people know about “GMOs” centers around a handful of commodity crops engineered to withstand exposure to ...
Does crop genetic engineering promote monoculture, as anti-GMO activists claim?
Genetic modification of agricultural crops, or green genetic engineering for short, is viewed critically by the majority of the German ...
Viewpoint: Are American farmers overusing neonicotinoid-coated seeds and harming the environment?
Planting season for corn and soybeans across the U.S. will begin as soon as March in Southern states and then move north ...
Podcast: Do facts matter when we we make policy decisions about sustainable agriculture? That’s being tested as the public debate over the benefits of gene editing in food and farming ramps up
Innovation Forum founder Toby Webb talks with Jon Entine, executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, about the rise of ...
Viewpoint: Anti-biotechnology activists claim Western corporations ‘colonize’ the developing world. Here’s why they are wrong
Today, many scientific discussions are shot through with social justice rhetoric, and the debate over food security in the developing world ...
Ukraine war exposes EU’s organic obsession and biotechnology rejectionism
Beyond needless loss of life, the war in Ukraine has caused a trade war that could slash global food production, ...
Meeting UN sustainability goals: Why gene editing is key
Innovations in agriculture productivity between 2005 and 2015, greatly contributed to reductions in the number of people that were food ...
When will CRISPR gene editing be widely adopted in farming — and what are the blockages?
If you’re involved in animal or plant sciences, you’ve been reading about CRISPR technology for many years. Ranging from the ...
Part 2: Misinformation or disinformation? Deniers or skeptics? How the GMO and vaccine controversies are undermining science communication
“Disinformation” is a clever term to relegate the views we don’t like or care to hear to the realm of ...
Part 1: Does Europe-based Precautionary Principle protect consumers from reckless corporations or retard innovation and undermine public trust in science?
Proponents of the precautionary principle often claim that it is necessary to secure public trust in research and technology. Without ...
Nutrigenomics: Can what you eat reprogram your genes?
People typically think of food as calories, energy and sustenance. However, the latest evidence suggests that food also “talks” to ...
Viewpoint: What regulatory and diplomatic steps are necessary to forge a transatlantic alliance promoting agricultural biotechnology innovation?
Mutual self-interest provides a strong basis for transatlantic cooperation in biotechnology based on shared recognition of its vast potential to ...
Part II: The Clean 18 — USDA finds almost no pesticide-related health concerns from fruits and vegetables grown on American farms, while data on organic food is lacking
The purpose of the following section is to explore commodity to commodity differences by a variety of measures and not ...
Part I: The Clean 18 — Challenging Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen scare survey of pesticide residues on conventional fruits and vegetables
The recent release of the “Dirty Dozen List” by the organic-industry-funded Environmental Working Group has stirred up its annual hornets’ ...
Viewpoint: Is science white or black? Politically-correct censorship targeting whites and supporters of biotechnology invade academia
North Carolina State University recently cancelled a science-outreach event because the invited speakers have the wrong skin color. It's another ...
Viewpoint: There is a solution to the devastating poultry pandemic – but anti-technology activist groups and outdated regulations are blocking it
The bulldozer belches black smoke into the air, an engine revving with extra effort to push a hill of feathered ...
Will plant based meat alternatives curb the greenhouse gas impact of animal agriculture? This independent study concludes consumers are key
New plant-based meat (PBM) alternatives that aim to mimic the taste and texture of beef could have significant economic, environmental, ...
