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Mark Bittman: Obama ‘did virtually nothing in eight years’ on food policy
...[L]ike nearly every election before it, the current one has been nearly 100 percent free of any debate around the ...
WikiLeaks shows how Big Organic’s Gary Hirshberg ‘bought’ Clinton’s support for GMO labeling
The latest WikiLeaks dump of Democratic Party emails shows that one prominent Big Organic player gets his emails answered by ...
No need to fear GM mosquitoes, Mother Jones attests
Humans have made plenty of such blunders trying to control pests. Hawaii's mongoose infestation, Australia's poisonous cane toads, and Canada's thistle-eating ...
How Monsanto’s ‘big bet’ on dicamba tolerant GMOs may have backfired
. . . . Back in April, [Monsanto] bet big on dicamba, announcing a $975 million expansion of its production facility. . . The chemical ...
Baby making moves from bedroom to the laboratory
The future of baby-making is not in a bed, or in the back seat of a car. It's in a ...
Will CRISPR gene editing lead to new era of ‘personalized eugenics’?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Today's geneticists are able ...
Mother Jones’ Tom Philpott visits Monsanto headquarters
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I normally cover the ...
Tom Philpott: GMOs safe, but pesticide concerns argue for ‘right to know’ labeling
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the past few ...
Presidential candidates largely ignoring food, farm policy. What should we ask them?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The 2016 presidential election ...
Is embryonic gene editing research slippery slope to designer babies?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On February 1, scientists ...
Whatever happened to golden rice?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. "This Rice Could Save ...
Dow-Dupont merger creates agricultural giant
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. chemical titans Dow ...
Is Monsanto’s focus on crop biotechnology backfiring?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Pity Monsanto, the genetically ...
Industrial agriculture, not GMO cotton, root of India farmer suicide problem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since the mid-1990s, around 300,000 ...
Dangerous chemicals causing sex changes in frogs? Yes, natural ones
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It's not easy being ...
Gene editing could end cruelty to dehorned dairy cows–unless GMO opponents derail it
Most of the roughly 9 million dairy cows in the United States have been dehorned—with an iron, clippers, or caustic ...
Could Africa’s own indigenous ‘superfoods’ rival GMOs?
Superfoods exist in Africa thanks not to the genius and beneficence of a foreign company, but rather through millennia of ...
Monsanto slammed for Syngenta takeover proposal
Once an industrial-chemical titan, GMO seed giant Monsanto has rebranded itself as a "sustainable agriculture company." That rhetoric may have ...
Reporter at Mother Jones, usually virulently anti-GMO, declares GMO’s ‘totally safe to eat’
Chipotle announced this week that it will stop serving food made with genetically modified organisms. The company wants you to ...
Global trade deals could pry open EU market for GM crops
President Obama and his Senate GOP critics are locked in a long-simmering feud, but there's one topic that has them ...
Anti-organics researcher foodies love: Brian Wansink explains how to ‘trick’ ourselves into eating healthier
Brian Wansink, a Cornell food psychologist runs Cornell's Food and Brand Lab, devoted to studying how our physical surroundings—everything from supermarket ...
How will law enforcement use new rapid DNA-scanning technology?
Robert Schueren shook my hand firmly, handed me his business card, and flipped it over, revealing a short list of ...
Monsanto’s next horizon: Big Data
You probably know Monsanto as the world's leading producer of genetically engineered seeds—a global agribusiness giant whose critics accuse it ...
Should Science and Nature run advertorial by wacky Dr. Bronner’s that misleads on GMOs?
David Bronner, CEO of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soaps, presides over a company with famously wacky product labels. ... But apparently, Bronner's ...
Anti-GMO activists hope floodgates will open if Oregon passes labeling law
Is this the year that voters will finally insist on knowing which supermarket foods contain genetically modified organisms? Activists in ...
Anti-GMO fervor and vaccine rejection not the liberal equivalent of climate denial
For a long time, those wishing to claim that Democrats and Republicans both reject science—we're all biased, just in different ...
Tom Philpott on genetically engineered ice cream: Synbio-created vanilla bean improves flavor
In an article in Mother Jones, food writer Tom Philpott reports on the use of synthetic biology to make vanilla ...
Cosmos continues to stir up creationists
The latest episode of Cosmos, devoted to explaining the nature of space, time, and the speed of light, presented a ...
