New Food Economy
Judge rebuffs lawsuit challenging FDA authority to regulate AquAdvantage GMO salmon as a drug
Remember the GMO salmon? It was created by a company called AquaBounty back in 1989 and approved by the Food ...
CRISPR guacamole, anyone? Gene-edited avocados could survive disease, cold climates
Researchers from Texas Tech University and the University of Buffalo have studied avocados in a way that is best described as ...
Will weed-killing robots replace controversial herbicides on the farm?
Weeds are the bane of a farmer’s existence—the “most important of all crop pests,” as one scientist put it. They ...
Beef producers, ‘alt-protein’ makers seek help settling ‘long-simmering dispute’
On [August 23rd], the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), a Washington, D.C.-based association that represents the country’s biggest meat producers ...
Organic farming advocate Klaas Martens comes out in favor of gene-edited crops
Klaas Martens, a prominent voice in the organic movement and a third-generation grain and livestock farmer, says he would be ...
Viewpoint: Retiring the Monsanto brand could be good for the GMO debate
Though critics will no doubt accuse Monsanto of greenwashing its products under the less-familiar Bayer brand, I’d like to argue ...
Viewpoint: New GMO labels will make consumer confusion worse, not better
So just how bad are the new federal regulations on labeling genetically engineered food? I don’t think anyone is standing ...
Viewpoint: Is glyphosate safe? Question complicated by politics, murky science
On one side, activists and advocacy organizations have blamed glyphosate exposure for everything from autism to celiac disease. Agribusiness companies ...
Whole Foods pauses GMO food labeling requirements following USDA proposal
In an email to suppliers on Friday [May 18], Whole Foods President and Chief Operations Officer A.C. Gallo announced the company ...
Viewpoint: USDA GMO labeling proposal could make things more confusing
On its surface, the rule is intended to reduce the consumer confusion that abounds when it comes to GMOs. But ...
6 promising genetically engineered animals stuck in regulatory purgatory
You’ve probably heard the news that genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon is on the way. ... Here are six other genetically ...
‘Regenerative Organic Certification’: USDA organic label gets competition as movement shows fissures
Frustrated by what they see as a continued watering down of the standards that define what foods may be labeled ...
Are ‘free-from’ (gluten, GMO) food labels informative—or misleading?
What could be conceptually simpler than labeling a food product? You tell the customers what’s in the product, or maybe ...
Can ‘carbon farming’ sustainably reduce greenhouse gas emissions?
From the perspective of global climate change, soils are a major compartment within the planetary carbon cycle, the second-largest pool ...
Garbage? Study challenges claim that Americans waste $165 billion of food each year
Say you’re a journalist, and you’ve been assigned a story about food waste. You’re on a deadline, and you need ...
Only 1 percent of US farmland is certified organic. Why aren’t more farmers making the switch?
There are two stories to tell about the state of organic agriculture in the US. The first is a success ...
