Food industry adapting to non-GMO product trend

Ken Roseboro | Civil Eats | 
At the 2013 Institute of Food Technologists tradeshow, a supplier of non-GMO ingredients told me that the “non-GMO tsunami is ...

Ancient wheat relative Kernza resists diseases and pests without gene manipulation

Larissa Zimberoff | Civil Eats | 
Kernza’s arrival has been a long time coming. The new grain variety from the Land Institute is derived from an ...

Organic farming nets higher income than conventional farming, despite lower yields

Elizabeth Grossman | Civil Eats | 
According to a study published this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), organic agriculture earns farmers ...

Global trade agreements could affect what’s on your plate, including pesticides and GMOs

Elizabeth Grossman | Civil Eats | 
International trade agreements may seem like a long way from what you’re making for dinner. But the two agreements on ...
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Playing God? Many faiths agree that tinkering with genes is out of bounds

Jonathan Frochtzwajg | Civil Eats | 
Last fall, at the peak of the contentious, expensive fight over Oregon’s ballot measure to label genetically engineered foods, about ...

With organic sales booming, proponents aim to recruit more farmers to reduce reliance on foreign imports

Ken Rosenboro | Civil Eats | 
While consumer demand for organic is booming, the supply of organic ingredients and agricultural products, particularly grains and animal feed, ...

Glyphosate takes another hit: Herbicides may lead to antibiotic resistance

Elizabeth Grossman | Civil Eats | 
This has not been a good week for glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup and other herbicides. On Friday, the ...

Monsanto said to offer ‘sustainable solutions’ to arrest decades long monarch butterfly decline

Doug Gurian-Sherman | Civil Eats | 
Monarch butterflies are in trouble. These popular insects, which have captured the public imagination with their several-thousand mile migrations, have ...

Cardboard tasting tomatoes? Cutting edge genetic breeding to the rescue

Civil Eats | 
At Oregon State University (OSU), Oregon’s only land-grant university, Jim Myers is quietly pursuing some of the most exciting vegetable ...

GMO yeast: One solution to omega-3 decline in salmon

Clare Leschin-Hoar | Civil Eats | 
When it comes to omega-3s, the message is clear: All salmon is a good choice. But that might soon change ...
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Food Fight: Anti-GMO Friends of the Earth attacks study on deceptively marketed organic foods

Kari Hamerschlag | Civil Eats | 
This article was written by Kari Hamerschlag, a former Latin studies major, who now works for the anti-GMO advocacy organization Friends ...
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Anti-GMO take on USDA green-lighting of corn and soybean with herbicide 2,4-D resistance

Marcia Ishii-Eiteman | Civil Eats | 
The USDA recently gave a virtual green light for Dow's new GE corn and soybean seeds, but according to opponents, ...

Food First anti-GMO activist Lappé challenges Grist’s coverage of GMOs as naive

Anna Lappe | Civil Eats | 
If you’ve been reading the running commentary over at Grist for the past six months, journalist Nathanael Johnson has been opining about ...

Foodie critic atttacks Scientific American’s anti-labeling editorial

Ralph Loglisci | Civil Eats | 
In a Civil Eats post responding to Scientific American's anti-labeling editorial, Ralph Loglisci, former Project Director for the Johns Hopkins Healthy ...

Why biotech developers don’t deserve the World Food Prize

Tom Laskawy | Civil Eats | 
Tom Laskawy, founder and executive director of the Food & Environment Reporting Network, wrote in Civil Eats why the winners of ...
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