Wall Street Journal
Viewpoint: Beef industry campaign against calling plant-based burgers ‘meat’ assaults consumer choice
Ranchers and their political allies want to brand plant-based foods like the Impossible Burger as inferior imitations, but consumers shouldn’t ...
Marketing stunt? Some restaurants sell Impossible, Beyond Burgers without telling customers they’re meat free
How do you get die-hard meat eaters to try a plant-based burger? You trick them. The rise of meatless meat ...
CRISPR pigs can survive deadly disease, but regulatory uncertainty slows development
Cutting-edge gene-editing techniques such as Crispr-Cas9 will enable scientists to make precise genetic changes to pig physiology, they say, leading ...
Viewpoint: Sen. Lisa Murkowski farm bill rider could keep GMO salmon off the market
Republicans claim to believe in free markets, at least until competition meets hometown interests. For a case study, witness Senator ...
Podcast: A brief history of CRISPR gene-editing—and how it could change our food supply
Vegetables engineered with the gene-editing technology Crispr are moving closer to supermarket shelves. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided ...
GMO crops and insects help stem overfishing, protect vulnerable marine ecosystems
For the first time in history, humans are poised to harvest more fish and seafood from farms than they catch ...
Gender nonconforming Americans can now choose neither male nor female on their licenses in many states
A growing number of states and companies are allowing people to designate their gender as “X” instead of male or ...
Long-term antidepressant use linked to higher risk of heart attack, stroke and death
More Americans are taking antidepressant medications like Prozac and Zoloft for extended periods of time: One-quarter of people on the ...
FamilyTreeDNA shares customers’ genetic data with FBI. Founder calls it ‘the right decision’
Millions of consumers use genetic data to gain insight into family roots or learn about health risks. The boom has ...
Anger, aches and pains: Anxiety manifests differently in men
Anxiety problems can look different in men. When people think of anxiety, they may picture the excessive worry and avoidance ...
This indoor farmer wants to turn rural Kentucky into America’s ‘high-tech agriculture capital’
Jonathan Webb’s farm doesn’t look like much: tawny soil stretching to a line of trees, a trailer with a few ...
Food fight: Plant-based burgers stir debate over claims of nutritional advantages versus beef
Plant-based burger makers say their products are better for the planet than beef. Whether they are better for consumers’ health ...
GMO mosquitoes could save millions from malaria but ‘progressive agroecologists’ mobilize against Gates-funded project
A child under 5 dies from malaria about every two minutes world-wide. Yet radical environmentalists are mobilizing against an important ...
Viewpoint: Genetically modified plants could produce drugs of the future—if we do more to encourage ‘pharming’
Politicians talk a lot about farming but seldom about “pharming,” even though the latter can also have a big impact ...
Blight-tolerant American chestnut tree: Latest biotech solution to nature’s assault on valued species
A blight-tolerant American chestnut tree is the latest example of what the science community has begun to call a GRO—a ...
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat can’t keep up with demand for plant-based burgers
Fast-food restaurants are rushing to add meat-free burgers to their menus, hoping these higher-priced alternatives will help them capture additional ...
Following debut of biotech firm Corteva, farm sector ‘more consolidated than ever’
Corteva Agriscience Inc.’s first day as a stand-alone company is a milestone in an agricultural deal making spree that has ...
Wall Street Journal: Costly glyphosate-cancer legal battle one of ‘worst crises’ in Bayer’s 155-year history
Stuck in one of the worst crises in its 155-year history, Bayer AG, the German company that invented aspirin and ...
Disease-resistant GMO chestnut trees could birth ‘new agroforestry industry’
Many Americans know the sad tale of how the American chestnut tree was driven almost to extinction in the 20th ...
Steep prices push lab-grown meat makers to pitch products as ‘humane luxuries’
[M]akers of cultured meat, such as Memphis Meats, New Age Meats and Aleph Farms, face several barriers to bringing their ...
Can artificial intelligence improve IVF success rates?
In theory, an AI application would be able to pick out the single best embryo to use for IVF to ...
A jury decided glyphosate caused cancer. Is this society’s ‘search for a scapegoat’ for the deadly disease?
A San Francisco jury decided last month that a plaintiff’s case of non-Hodgkin lymphoma was caused by Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller ...
Podcast: How AI is boosting treatment of PTSD
Only about 10% of the individuals with mental health issues in the US are getting any sort of treatment that ...
Viewpoint: Bayer ‘open for looting’ as company battles 11,000 glyphosate-cancer lawsuits
The vagaries of American tort law were on display in San Francisco....as six jurors decided that Bayer AG is liable ...
Many farmers endorse glyphosate as safe weed killer while Bayer battles Roundup-cancer lawsuits
Farmers are standing by Bayer AG’s Roundup herbicide despite rulings from two juries that the world’s most widely used weedkiller caused ...
Viewpoint: USDA’s bioengineered food rules will confuse consumers and could cost $200 million per year
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has created what may be the most bewildering, least cost-effective regulation ever. In July 2016, ...
China’s approval of 5 GMO crop imports could fuel investment boom in biotech research
Lost in the news of contentious U.S.-China trade disputes was a meaningful regulatory approval that will improve agriculture around the ...
Viewpoint: Psychology association’s new guidelines ‘demonize’ masculinity, ignore biology
In my practice as a psychotherapist , I’ve seen an increase of depression in young men who feel emasculated in ...
