sustainability
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 ...
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 ...
Podcast: How biotech, big data and robotics help farmers grow more food on less land
While technology is exploding in all areas of life, it has been slow to reach agriculture. Many old, unsustainable farming ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Pesticide-focused Save America’s Pollinators Act overlooks primary threats to bees and other pollinators
Amid the continuing decline of pollinators worldwide, U.S. lawmakers recently revived a perennially struggling bill that aims to save these ...
From lab-grown burgers to 3D printed steak, here’s why alternative meat is mainstream in 2019
As the sustainability agenda rises in the food industry, innovators are increasingly looking at ways of swapping out meat for ...
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 ...
Why synthetic biology is about much more than resurrecting woolly mammoths
Synthetic biology...Simply mentioning this term — whether at a cocktail party or on a pop culture TV show — evokes ...
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 ...
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 ...
Podcast: From anti-GMO journalist to crop biotech advocate—Alliance for Science managing editor Joan Conrow
For many years, the developing world has been at the center of a heated debate between mainstream scientists and anti-GMO ...
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 ...
Tyson Foods ends investment in plant-based protein startup Beyond Meat
Tyson Foods, the US meat producer, has exited its investment in Beyond Meat, the alternative protein company which is due ...
First lab-grown burger may cost $50 at anticipated 2020 restaurant debut
On April 15, Bruce Friedrich ascended a stage in Vancouver, Canada to give a TED Talk to a packed room ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal wants to make agriculture more sustainable—but farmers are beating her to it
The Green New Deal puts forth a lot of idealistic proposals without much specificity, strategic planning, or research ...
Swapping tractors for computer tablets: Is the future of farming digital and indoors?
Workers at Bowery Farming's warehouse near New York have swapped out a farmer's hoe for a computer tablet that takes ...
Claims of ‘insect armageddon’ based on ‘patchy, unrepresentative and piecemeal’ data, entomologists say
In 1828, a teenager named Charles Darwin opened a letter to his cousin with “I am dying by inches, from not having ...
Biodiversity declines threaten world food production, warns United Nations
A drop in global biodiversity is putting our ability to produce food at risk, a new United Nations report warns ...
With lab-grown meat coming to our plates, will we be eating animals in 50 years?
Climate change has altered the debate over the ethics of meat consumption, adding a new dimension that certainly changes the ...
Destructive diets: Are we eating Earth’s large animals to extinction?
In new research published [February 6] in the journal Conservation Letters, scientists surveyed the populations of nearly 300 species of megafauna ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why we don’t have to worry about a world without insects
Recent headlines about the coming collapse of the insect world are another case of extrapolation from inadequate data ...
20 plus years of data show Bt insect-resistant crops to be ‘powerful,’ sustainable pest management tools
Genetically engineered (GE) crops producing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) (mainly Cry proteins) have become a major control tactic for a ...
Pro-organic groups petition USDA to exclude hydroponic farming from organic certification
The Center for Food Safety filed a petition with the Department of Agriculture Jan. 16 urging the agency to exclude hydroponically grown ...