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USDA’s bioengineered label is coming soon. What can it tell consumers?
You may have already started seeing the [bioengineered, or] BE food disclosure on food packages since many companies have already ...
Once an ardent GMO promoter, Soylent no longer touts the role of genetic engineering in making its drinks
Few food companies over the past decade have voluntarily promoted the use of genetic engineering on their labels. After all, ...
Videos: Debunking three viral social media videos that promote ‘snake oil’ products and spread misinformation about the ‘dangers’ of pesticides on produce
Here I’m going to explore three viral videos I’ve come across on social media in which [multi-level marketing, or] MLM ...
Viewpoint: The biggest threat to our food supply is not chemicals but chemophobia
My cousin is a baking whiz, and runs her own cookie enterprise. The recipes happen to call for potato flour ...
Viewpoint: Why criticism of the Green Revolution is misplaced
The wheat varieties developed by Norman Borlaug and his Mexican team [during the Green Revolution] swept over Asia in the ...
Viewpoint: 13 million American children go undernourished each day. Fad-based conventional food criticisms make the problem worse
As many as 1 in 6 kids in the United States are living in a food insecure household. These 13 ...
Viewpoint: Why terms like ‘regenerative agriculture’ and ‘intensive farming’ are meaningless
Quick: What do all of these terms have in common: Regenerative agriculture. Industrial agriculture. Organic agriculture. Non-GMO agriculture. Intensive agriculture ...
Who are the scientists who paved the way to modern crop breeding?
[Here are] some of the agricultural industry’s biggest game-changers over the past two centuries. They may not be household names, ...
Viewpoint: ‘Well intentioned’ Sri Lankan plan to embrace organic farming tainted by lack of science, damaging its economy, health, and food security
In Sri Lanka, world renowned for its tea production, an initiative to go all-organic — the textbook definition of a ...
‘There’s so much misinformation swirling around the internet’: Are pesticides really safe and necessary?
Here are 5 things you may not know about pesticides — from their long backstory to their development and testing ...
Viewpoint: New York’s ‘Birds and Bees Protection Act’ targeting neonicotinoid pesticides doesn’t protect either and would hurt farmers
[Recently,] the New York legislature began advancing the Birds and Bees Protection Act. If it passes both chambers and is ...
Viewpoint: ‘If it’s organic, it’s non-GMO’: Why consumers don’t need this recently introduced ‘irrelevant food label’ on grocery store shelves
While I typically try and shop around labels that are not supportive or have no relation to the actual product ...
‘Food culture disruptors’: Gen Z — the largest and most diverse generation ever — is demanding better prices, quality and ethics in agriculture
Gen Zers have been called “food culture disruptors” based on their culinary skills (thanks to internet tutorials and recipes, many ...
In ‘urgent plea’ for organic farming to allow biotechnology, researchers say Europe’s Farm to Fork program ‘will likely fail’ without it
An international research team, including scientists from Wageningen University & Research [WUR] in the Netherlands, says that unless the EU ...
Video: Vaccines are rescuing the world from COVID. Could they also protect food crops from deadly plant diseases and pandemics?
Preventing plant-disease outbreaks is an urgent matter — as urgent as having a rapid response strategy for human viruses. The ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic At All Costs’? How a small clique of anti-GMO groups invented the conventional vs organic myth
Today’s farmers aren’t uneducated self-serving workers driven solely by greed. They are genuine stewards of the land, who employ a ...
‘Regenerative medicine’ could help produce synthetic meat that mimics the texture and mouthfeel of steak
Tissue engineering of cultured meat is under development at several centers worldwide. However, most biosynthetic meat products are amorphous or ...
Golden Rice: A tool of modern day ‘neo-colonialism’?
Noted Forbes and Slate contributor, blogger, and speaker Kavin Senapathy recently went against the grain, railing against Golden Rice and ...
Viewpoint: ‘Wellness influencers’ rely on shopper science ignorance to sell ‘clean’ products
The purpose of [“wellness influencer”] accounts is typically to sell “cleaner” or more “natural” products, but they don’t achieve that ...
RNA technology gave us a COVID vaccine. It could also help control plant pests without insecticides
With the development of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, RNA technology has been dominating the news cycle. … A decade ago, ...
Viewpoint: ‘Celebrate pesticides!’ Why farmers should defend technology that produces our abundant food supply
Social media is really one of the best ways to reach people nowadays. As much as we might hate to ...
Viewpoint: There’s no such thing as a ‘toxic’ chemical (it’s all based on dose and exposure)—and 4 other common food marketing myths busted
[H]ere are five common “healthy halo” buzzwords to look out for. … 1) Clean Everything from “clean ingredients” to “clean ...
