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Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat can’t keep up with demand for plant-based burgers

Heather Haddon, Jacob Bunge | 
Fast-food restaurants are rushing to add meat-free burgers to their menus, hoping these higher-priced alternatives will help them capture additional ...
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GMO insect-resistant Bt corn cuts pesticide spraying in Spain and Portugal by 37%, study shows

Renowned agricultural economist Graham Brookes of PG Economics published the latest findings on the use of insect resistant maize in ...
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Podcast: How biotech, big data and robotics help farmers grow more food on less land

Kevin Folta | 
While technology is exploding in all areas of life, it has been slow to reach agriculture. Many old, unsustainable farming ...
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GMO lab-grown insect meat key to sustainable food production, researchers argue

Livestock farming is destroying our planet. It is a major cause of land and water degradation, biodiversity loss, acid rain, ...
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More than one-third of Americans do not know that foods with zero genetically modified ingredients contain genes—and why that matters

More than a third of Americans think that only GMO foods contain genes. Even worse--people aren't looking to scientists to ...
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Here’s how GMO crops preserve soil health and curb climate change

A healthy agricultural production system cannot exist without healthy soils. Aside from being the habitat of diverse organisms that contribute ...
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Spider venom and fungi: The next generation of ‘eco-friendly’ biopesticides

The global population is predicted to reach 9.77 billion people by the end of 2050, before peaking at more than ...
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Pesticide-focused Save America’s Pollinators Act overlooks primary threats to bees and other pollinators

Ian Graber-Stiehl | 
Amid the continuing decline of pollinators worldwide, U.S. lawmakers recently revived a perennially struggling bill that aims to save these ...
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From lab-grown burgers to 3D printed steak, here’s why alternative meat is mainstream in 2019

Flora Southey | 
As the sustainability agenda rises in the food industry, innovators are increasingly looking at ways of swapping out meat for ...
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54% of consumers want sustainable food, survey shows, but knowledge of nutrition, farming lacking

Topics like sustainability, plant-based diets and clean eating seem to permeate news about food, but it turns out they’re not ...
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Why synthetic biology is about much more than resurrecting woolly mammoths

David Warmflash | 
Synthetic biology...Simply mentioning this term — whether at a cocktail party or on a pop culture TV show — evokes ...
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United Nations: Intensive agriculture driving bee declines, threatening global food security

Declining bee populations pose threat to global food security and nutrition FAO urges countries to step up efforts to protect ...
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Ethos Chocolate, candy brand that hypes its GMO ingredients, back by popular demand

In its debut in February, the debut of Ethos Chocolate made a big, wonderful, delicious splash — the initial batch of 10,000 ...
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Podcast: From anti-GMO journalist to crop biotech advocate—Alliance for Science managing editor Joan Conrow

Cameron English, Joan Conrow | 
For many years, the developing world has been at the center of a heated debate between mainstream scientists and anti-GMO ...
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Steep prices push lab-grown meat makers to pitch products as ‘humane luxuries’

Mischa Frankl-Duval | 
[M]akers of cultured meat, such as Memphis Meats, New Age Meats and Aleph Farms, face several barriers to bringing their ...
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Tyson Foods ends investment in plant-based protein startup Beyond Meat

Emiko Terazono | 
Tyson Foods, the US meat producer, has exited its investment in Beyond Meat, the alternative protein company which is due ...
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First lab-grown burger may cost $50 at anticipated 2020 restaurant debut

Chase Purdy | 
On April 15, Bruce Friedrich ascended a stage in Vancouver, Canada to give a TED Talk to a packed room ...
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Video: Lab-grown meat could hit the market within five years

Lab-grown meat, cultured from the stem cells of animals, is considered by many to be a sustainable and ethical solution ...
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Viewpoint: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal wants to make agriculture more sustainable—but farmers are beating her to it

Hillary Kaufman | 
The Green New Deal puts forth a lot of idealistic proposals without much specificity, strategic planning, or research ...
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Swapping tractors for computer tablets: Is the future of farming digital and indoors?

Juliette Michel | 
Workers at Bowery Farming's warehouse near New York have swapped out a farmer's hoe for a computer tablet that takes ...
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Claims of ‘insect armageddon’ based on ‘patchy, unrepresentative and piecemeal’ data, entomologists say

Ed Young | 
In 1828, a teenager named Charles Darwin opened a letter to his cousin with “I am dying by inches, from not having ...
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Biodiversity declines threaten world food production, warns United Nations

James Griffiths | 
A drop in global biodiversity is putting our ability to produce food at risk, a new United Nations report warns ...
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With lab-grown meat coming to our plates, will we be eating animals in 50 years?

Steven Novella | 
Climate change has altered the debate over the ethics of meat consumption, adding a new dimension that certainly changes the ...
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Destructive diets: Are we eating Earth’s large animals to extinction?

Brandon Specktor | 
In new research published [February 6] in the journal Conservation Letters, scientists surveyed the populations of nearly 300 species of megafauna ...
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Viewpoint: Here’s why we don’t have to worry about a world without insects

Robert Walker | 
Recent headlines about the coming collapse of the insect world are another case of extrapolation from inadequate data ...
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20 plus years of data show Bt insect-resistant crops to be ‘powerful,’ sustainable pest management tools

Jörg Romeis | 
Genetically engineered (GE) crops producing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) (mainly Cry proteins) have become a major control tactic for a ...
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Pro-organic groups petition USDA to exclude hydroponic farming from organic certification

Cathy Siegner | 
The Center for Food Safety filed a petition with the Department of Agriculture Jan. 16 urging the agency to exclude hydroponically grown ...
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