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Does the air you breathe alter your DNA?
Breathing nasty urban pollution does more than clog up your lungs — it actually messes with your genes. This disturbing ...
Psst, Congress, you have a little food stuck in your Cromnibus
Congress has just passed the so-called Cromnibus — a giant $1.1 trillion spending bill to keep government programs running. Last year, ...
We can feed the world without chopping down more forests
Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population — cutting down forests, plowing prairies ...
Even this organic advocate thinks African farmers need herbicide
Why aren’t agroecological techniques farming spreading faster among poor farmers? If you are a farmer in the rural part of an ...
GMO labeling laws keep failing. Here’s why we can expect more
After efforts to label genetically engineered foods failed in Oregon and Colorado, I asked Stuart Elway, president of the Seattle-based polling ...
Saving bees requires less pesticides, changing farming
There is much more to “saving the bees” than spring flowers and a golden mascot. Don’t get me wrong, honeybees have ...
Top Ten issues more important than labeling GMOs
As a follow up to his list of 4 problems that GMO labeling won't solve, Nathanael Johnson of the environmental ...
4 concerns mandatory GMO labels don’t address
This election season, there are initiatives on the ballot in Colorado and Oregon to label foods made with the help ...
Mainstream consumers don’t appear concerned about GMOs
It’s starting to look like the average eater doesn’t care about GMOs. At the very beginning of 2014, General Mills ...
Why Vandana Shiva is so right and yet so wrong
Romantic environmentalists tend to get the big-picture problems right, while fudging the details. Rationalists nail the details, but sometimes become ...
Is producing more food to feed the world beside the point?
Supporters and critics of crop biotechnology clash over whether GMOs can help 'feed the world'--or even whether we have a ...
Biotech and chemical companies pour money backing GMO-friendly candidates in Hawaii
Hawaii has become “ground zero” in the controversy over genetically modified crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including ...
GM giants on Kauai ‘drench’ test crops with pesticides causing islander illnesses
The four transnational corporations that are experimenting with genetically engineered crops on Kauai have transformed part of the island into ...
Moving past GMO debate: Monsanto executive, organic farmer and anti-industrialist activist agree on future for agriculture
In the days leading up to a panel discussion on GMOs put on by Climate One, I started getting nervous. I was slated ...
5 Surprises in the USDA’s study of GE crops
The USDA's study of genetically engineered crops in the United States is a pretty dry and unsurprising document, but when read ...
In response to Grist’s Johnson, Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott argues GMOs lead ag down wrong path
In another response to Grist's Nathanael Johnson's recent series on GMOs, Mother Jones' Tom Philpott presents an anti-GMO view and ...
Response to Grist’s Johnson: Ramez Nam on why GMOs matter—especially for the developing world
After Grist ran Nathanael Johnson’s summary essay in his sixth month series, What I learned from six months of GMO ...
Nathaneal Johnson: All or nothing debate over GMOs–Does any of it matter?
Johnson bemoans that too much of the conversation about GMOs remains stuck on cliches and focused on extremes and ideology--not ...
20 answers on GMOs: What would conversation be like if we discarded ideology?
Do GMOs pose unique health or environmental problems? Not likely, says Grist columnist, who offers his year end recipe for ...
Block party: Are activists thwarting GMO innovation?
Is there evidence that groups fighting against genetically modified food have thwarted good technologies that would otherwise make agriculture more ...
Grist’s Nathanael Johnson’s GMO archives: Wading through the ideological thicket
The GMO debate is wrought with arguments based on emotion, not facts. Grist's Nathnael Johnson has been wading through the ...
Johnson in Grist: Despite drawbacks, GE key tool in strengthening global food security
Some say that the costs of genetic engineering outweigh the benefits, but GE is still an important tactic against threats ...
‘Shallow concern’ over GM food, not Big Ag advertising, led to defeat of Washington labeling bill
Washington's GMO labeling bill failed for many reasons, but was one them that people just don't care about GM food? ...
Activists block solution to GM cross-pollination (don’t call it ‘contamination’) fears
Cross pollination between fields of crops, whether genetically modified or organic, cannot be avoided. Whose responsibility is it to keep ...
Labels could disarm the emotional and political triggers of GMOs
Grist's Nathanael Johnson examines the complex issue of labeling, outline some of the numerous problems and some of what he ...
Rigid patent system stifles agricultural innovation, needs radical change
The patent system for agricultural technology is controlled by a small group of companies in rich countries, which impedes innovations ...
Do GMOs promote soil conservation?
Due to the lack of conclusive data, no one can say for sure if herbicide-tolerant crops have really reduced the ...
Is an anti-GMO wave rising from Kauai?
After years of acceptance, the United States is now experiencing true movement to restrict the use of genetically engineered organisms ...
