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Viewpoint: Federal regulators should clamp down on ‘misleading’ non-GMO advertising
For a long time, American consumers .... could read a food label or product advertisement and trust that the information ...
With limited arable land available around the world, is organic farming sustainable?
This question comes up frequently in discussions of farming practices – how much arable land is there on the Earth, ...
Viewpoint: Farmers turn to social media to educate public about exaggerated benefits of organic and non-GMO labeled foods
Years ago, before I fell in love with a farmer and became one myself, I was a big-city girl who ...
Viewpoint: FDA gives organic food marketers a pass on deceptive labeling—at consumer expense
[W]hen it comes to the $47-billion-a-year organic industry, the FDA gives a complete pass to blatantly false and deceptive advertising ...
Viewpoint: Eliminating pesticides from farming isn’t realistic—or desirable
In about 1980, I visited several International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) research sites in Mexico. The trip included ...
Organic, grass-fed beef: Nutritious food choice or marketing hype?
.... Organic farming and grass feeding are promoted as having some social and environmental benefits compared with conventionally produced red ...
Viewpoint: How organic activists use intimidation and character assassination to attack GMOs
In Part 1, I described the vendetta by the Russian government's propaganda apparatus against technologies like fracking and modern genetic ...
Viewpoint: Stonyfield Organic enlisted ‘rapid response team’ of academics to ‘scare people’ about GMOs
2015 was the peak of the GMO labeling debate. Bills were being thrown around at both the state and federal ...
Kazakhstan ‘goes organic’ to compete in $90 billion non-GMO food market
Kazakhstan is tapping growing consumer demand for organic crops to help it better compete in the food-export market. The country ...
Organic industry splinters as USDA ‘bioengineered’ labeling initiative progresses
Richmond-based Nature's Path Foods, a leading organic breakfast company in North America, has recently announced its resignation from the Organic ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why organic farming needs GMOs
“Civilization has been built on genetically modified plants.” — Nina V. Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientists View of Genetically ...
‘Environmental progress without organic’: Rachel Carson’s testy relationship with the organic food and farming movement
Rachel Carson, who launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,” was a highly private person. But ...
Talking Biotech: From non-GMO to organic, has food labeling gone too far?
Elanco's Colleen Parr Dekker: Product differentiation and marketing—not transparency and education—are why food companies adopt trendy labels ...
Mythbusting gone wrong: How the ‘dangerous’ organic pesticide myth began
One of the things that surprised me in researching this story was that I could not find a single organic-approved ...
A behind the scenes look at pesticide use in organic orchards, vineyards and fresh produce
This is part three of a four-part series attempting to separate fact from fiction regarding pesticide use on organic farms ...
4 things that led to the myth that organic farmers use more pesticides than conventional farmers
This is part two of a four-part series attempting to separate fact from fiction regarding pesticide use on organic farms ...
Do organic farmers really use more pesticides than conventional farmers? Not even close.
This is part one of a four-part series attempting to separate fact from fiction regarding pesticide use on organic farms ...
‘The Farm Project’: Actress Zooey Deschanel’s advice on organic food, pesticides is short on science
The actress Zooey Deschanel cites pesticide use in advising Facebook users to avoid certain non-organic produce. Is that scientifically sound ...
Viewpoint: How the Environmental Working Group and ‘Big Organic’ manipulate pesticide data to scare people
Consumers have a legitimate desire for transparency when it comes to their food - particularly when it comes to the ...
Viewpoint: European organic industry’s obsession with ‘natural’ threatens CRISPR innovations and hurts the environment
What is nature? What is natural? Philosophers have been arguing about this since antiquity. Supporters of organic farming seem to ...
Viewpoint: Why organic farming activists oppose New Breeding Techniques (NBTs)
There was a brief moment in 2015 where organic farming researchers were having an open discussion on adopting certain innovative ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list highlights ‘meaningless distinctions’ between organic and conventional foods
On April 10, the Environmental Working Group – an NGO funded by big organic marketers – released its annual “Dirty Dozen List” ...
Strange bedfellows: American Academy of Pediatrics allies with Environmental Working Group, known for anti-science messages
On the subjects of organics and pesticides, the American Academy of Pediatrics finds itself supporting the Environmental Working Group, an ...
How ‘open source’ seed producers from the US to India are changing global food production
Around the world, plant breeders are resisting what they see as corporate control of the food supply by making seeds ...
From GMO hater to biotechnology advocate: One person’s Facebook journey
An anti-GMO, pro-organic mom became a staunch defender of modern agriculture following a social media encounter that prompted her to ...
How Russia tried to turn America against GMOs and agricultural biotechnology and sow ideological discord
How serious was secret Russian interventionism when it comes to creating public discord over US farming and agricultural trade policy? ...
USDA data confirm organic yields significantly lower than with conventional farming
Government data comparing yields of organic vs. conventional farms finds a sharp yield edge for conventional on more than 84 ...
