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Are climate activists targeting dogs and their owners?
I’ve been a vegetarian for over a decade. ... It’s a lifestyle choice I made because I wanted to reduce ...
Protecting pigs and loving bacon made from them—Here’s how we can get the best of both worlds
Cultivated pork is the newest entrant in the effort to rethink meat. For years, plant-based offerings have been mimicking burgers, ...
Viewpoint: Indigenous groups and their Western NGO allies line up to block the genetic engineering revolution
[Members] of the International Union of Conservation of Nature, one of the world’s largest conservation groups, voted against a moratorium on the ...
Michael Grunwald: ‘How to Fix Our Food System and Save Our Climate?’
When veteran journalist Michael Grunwald set out to write his third book, he was determined not to produce a “Debbie ...
India and other warm-weather countries are growing climate resilient crops to blunt climate change
A sweltering heat wave decimated Pritam Singh’s wheat crop in 2022. That year, temperatures reached a record-breaking 127 degrees Fahrenheit ...
Could soybeans replace toxic foams used to douse fires to cut down on spraying toxic chemicals?
Cross Plains began to look into creating a PFAS-free, soy-based firefighting foam after being approached by the United Soybean Board ...
How culture wars and ideological polarization are holding back the sustainable meat revolution
Just a few years ago, the alternative protein industry promised to revolutionize the way people eat burgers: They would still ...
As federal agencies prepare to deregulate transgenic chestnuts, Indigenous nations assert right to access and care for them
The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi ...
Environmental Protection Agency denies Center for Food Safety petition to ban neonicotinoid pesticides
The Environmental Protection Agency denied a petition September 28 that asked the federal agency to more closely regulate a group ...
Microbe milk: We’ve used precision fermentation to make cheese for decades — lab-made dairy may be the next technological leap
Although plant-based analogs have never managed to fully capture the taste and texture of the real thing, a new crop ...
Can we stop stupid politics from ruining carbon farming?
It seems like every Democratic presidential candidate wants to get farmers sucking carbon out of the air and sticking it ...
Fungus-resistant hazelnuts illustrate how genetic modification safeguards our food supply
Ordu is a picturesque city between the mountains and the Black Sea, where a quarter of the world’s hazelnuts grow ...
Are bugs disappearing? A science-based ‘insect apocalypse’ Q&A
Q. Dear Umbra, Insects are disappearing at an alarming rate. This terrifies me! What actions can I take to mitigate ...
‘Regenerative agriculture’: World-saving idea or food marketing ploy?
You’re about to start seeing the term “regenerative” when you scan packages of Cheerios and boxed mac and cheese in ...
Billionaires and Bacteria are Racing to Save Us From Death by Fertilizer
It was January 15, 1881, and the U.S. envoy to Peru had to duck for cover .... Chile had invaded Peru ...
Why it’s OK to change your mind, from a former anti-GMO activist
Once upon a time, shortly after the age of bloodletting, people thought that facts could change minds. It may seem ...
R.I.P. Monsanto. Our hates will go on.
Welp, this is the end of Monsanto. Not the end of the seed company, mind you, but the end of ...
Small artisanal farms might not be our environmental salvation
[Cricket flour] was the first note of a dinner set up by the Breakthrough Institute, a pro-technology environmental think tank, in order ...
The Impossible Burger wouldn’t be possible without genetic engineering
[Editor's note: Read a San Francisco Chronicle article about this controversy and letter from the CEO of Impossible Foods here.] ...
Slugging it out with a new contender in the GMO debate
“I thought it might be worth meeting,” [said Penn State University entomologist John Tooker], “because I read the piece where ...
A crucial climate mystery is just under our feet
[F]armers could turn their fields into giant greenhouse gas sponges, potentially offsetting as much as 15 percent of global fossil ...
What the New York Times missed with its big GMO story
The [Danny Hakim] story is an odd one for the Times because if you take the most mild interpretation of ...
Americans love genetically modified mosquitoes much more than other GMOs
When the news started to spread about a plan to release genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, it seemed ...
Monsanto’s new GMO soybeans are making a hot mess for farmers
. . . The leaves are gone from the . . . peach trees on Bill Bader’s orchard . . ., and soy ...
The world’s biggest seed companies are wooing
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. They call the giants ...
Can we finally make gasoline out of corncobs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .Take ...
Kenya moves closer to legalizing GMO crops with drought-resistant GMO corn trial
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . Kenyan ...
Conventional milk can be just as nutritious, beneficial for cows, farmers as organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .“Organic” ...
