Headlines about harmful pesticides in conventional foods are lying to you in order to create fear. Another day, another post from an activist group that is wildly mischaracterizing reality. Consumer Reports has a history of exaggerating toxicological risks related to a wide array of exposures, commonly associated with food products.

The earliest primates gave rise to monkeys, great apes, hominids, and eventually, our own species itself: homo sapiens.

Researchers have made significant advances in understanding the genetic form of early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

Regulators last year approved the world’s first medicine using Crispr, the Nobel Prize-winning tool for modifying genes.

New research adds to the increasingly nuanced picture of organic farming and how well it can meet both our food and ecological goals. The new study, published in Science, identifies one unintended consequence of organic agriculture: it seems to lead to the increased use of insecticides on neighboring fields.

Our urine contains what the body wants to dispose of. “But it can also put food on our table,” says Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO) researcher Divina Gracia P. Rodriguez.

Last year, the Agriculture Department approved some companies to sell lab-grown chicken; other lab-cultured meats (such as beef, pork and tuna) are still being developed. Even the cultivated chicken is available only in very small quantities, at two U.S. restaurants. And it’s still unclear how well these new technologies will scale up. But its prospects … Read more

A court in the Philippines has blocked the release of vitamin-A fortified Golden Rice in the country. What happens next? Could the weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy reshape America’s eating habits? The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) misleads the public about cancer risk; let’s correct some of the critical misconceptions the agency has encouraged in recent years.

Leveraging the proposed European Green Deal (EGD) announced in December 2019, the EU aims to become the first climate-neutral continent by 2050. Growing evidence of a more unstable climate is creating a sense of urgency. The Green Deal envisages fundamental changes in EU policies in several areas ranging from agriculture to industry, from energy to transportation.

Two senior FDA officials, including Dr. Robert Califf, the agency head, recently published a journal article entitled “Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous Tipping Point?” They make a compelling case that we are facing a crisis: