Viewpoint: Europe's globally important wine industry threatened by pesticide, biotech phobias

Viewpoint: Europe’s globally important wine industry threatened by pesticide, biotech phobias

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“Make food systems fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly.” That's the lofty goal of the European Union's (EU) Farm to Fork Strategy, ...
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Eat your veggies! California testing confirms organic and conventional produce well below EPA pesticide limits

Steve Savage | 
Once again, evidence that our food supply is safe and incredibly diverse ...
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Podcast: How technology keeps cancer-causing mycotoxins out of our food

Steve Savage | 
Here's a question for you: what if there were dangerous toxins that could make their way into your food, but ...
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Viewpoint: Don’t buy organic food if you want to increase farm yields or seriously address climate change

Steve Savage | 
As consumers, our most climate-responsible buying behavior should be to reject organic and its false narratives ...
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Podcast: What Doctor Who can teach us about protecting California’s grape industry from ‘alien’ bugs

Steve Savage | 
Are you a fan of the long-term sci-fi comedy Doctor Who? It's the bizarre but entertaining story of an extraterrestrial ...
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Podcast: As more US farmers retire, here’s how to recruit a new generation of growers to feed us

Steve Savage | 
Is farming for the aging? While Paul McCartney ponders, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when ...
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Podcast: How farmers grow the 2.7 billion pounds of coffee we drink every year

Steve Savage | 
Whether you typically crave a drip coffee or something a bit more intricate, we can all agree that caffeine is ...
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How a genetically altered virus could save Florida’s decimated orange industry from citrus greening disease

Steve Savage | 
In the early 1970s there was a ubiquitous television ad promoting Florida orange juice including the line, "a day without orange juice ...
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Podcast: How science brought us ‘synthetic’ fertilizer, and why it was a game changer for farmers

Steve Savage | 
Bet you never thought fertilizer was magical but that changes today! On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant ...
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Podcast: Genesis of GMOs—How the tools of biotechnology came to be

Steve Savage | 
Following some groundbreaking experiments in the early 1970s, biologists discovered they could move DNA between species. This development launched the ...
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Mother Nature? More like ‘Mad Scientist Mama’—creator of chemicals good and bad for humans

Steve Savage | 
Nature is not some sort of cosmic mother figure. On the contrary, nature is composed of diverse biological and physical ...
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Viewpoint: How the Environmental Working Group and ‘Big Organic’ manipulate pesticide data to scare people

Steve Savage | 
Consumers have a legitimate desire for transparency when it comes to their food - particularly when it comes to the ...
Public health breakthrough: US and Indian scientists work together on genetic solutions to food toxins

Public health breakthrough: US and Indian scientists work together on genetic solutions to food toxins

Steve Savage | 
Genetically engineered peanuts that are immune to aflatoxin contamination, which is associated with an increased risk of liver cancer, would ...
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Can biotechnology defuse the looming ‘bananapocalypse’?

Steve Savage | 
Scientists have developed GMO bananas resistant to a destructive disease sweeping across the globe. But they may never reach the ...
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list highlights ‘meaningless distinctions’ between organic and conventional foods

Steve Savage | 
On April 10, the Environmental Working Group – an NGO funded by big organic marketers – released its annual “Dirty Dozen List” ...
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USDA data confirm organic yields significantly lower than with conventional farming

Steve Savage | 
Government data comparing yields of organic vs. conventional farms finds a sharp yield edge for conventional on more than 84 ...
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Myth busting: Do farmers ‘drench, douse or slather’ crops in pesticides?

Steve Savage | 
One common belief about modern farming is that farmers use pesticides in excess on their crops. A plant scientist explains ...
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Viewpoint: No, Big Ag doesn’t ‘control’ the world’s food supply

Steve Savage | 
Is there truth to a common anti-GMO narrative that large multi-national companies seek to “control the food supply” through patents ...
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Smoking and health: Genetic revolution transforming medical marijuana and tobacco

Steve Savage | 
Our increased understanding of plant genetics has potential to help smokers quit and provide patients with the medicinal benefits of ...
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GMO corn that resists cancer-causing aflatoxin showcases biotech’s life-saving potential

Steve Savage | 
The creation of GM corn that neutralizes a cancer-causing toxin is a game-changer for human health. The method could be ...
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Biotech opponents claim Monsanto ‘controls’ the world food supply? What are the facts?

Steve Savage | 
Is there truth to a common anti-GMO narrative that large multi-national companies seek to “control the food supply” through patents ...
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USDA’s non GMO labeling proposal doesn’t satisfy genuine ‘right to know’

Steve Savage | 
While the Agricultural Department edges towards embracing a new food label, it's missing the opportunity to provide a meaningful 21st ...
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