New York Times Attempt at a Nuanced View of GMOs Lacks Nuance
Guest Author: Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida | Follow him on Twitter: @kevinfolta […]
Biotech Crops
Moving Beyond Pro/Con Debates Over Genetically Engineered Crops
Guest Author: Pamela Ronald | Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis This piece originally appeared in The Conversation. It appears here under a […]
With the Familiar Cavendish Banana in Danger, Can Science Help it Survive?
Guest authors: Ioannis Stergiopoulos, University of California, Davis; André Drenth, The University of Queensland, and Gert Kema, Wageningen University __________________________ The banana is the world’s […]
Another not so sweet victory for the Anti-GMO movement
It’s nearly impossible to argue that switching from the GMO sugar beets that currently make up the bulk of the US sugar supply to sugarcane is in any way a net benefit to the environment. Sugarcane is an environmentally intensive crop. It requires large amounts of water and often threatens local aquifers. It is a tropical crop which requires the deforestation of vital, biodiverse habitat to allow for new production.
Learn about CRISPR, the revolutionary gene editing technology that’s sweeping the globe!
CRISPR is a gene editing technique that has fairly recently come into it’s own. It’s a technique that comes from nature, allows scientists to edited […]
Contemporary Selective Breeding. Plant Edition.
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older pieces of writing on the theme. This piece previously was published on 28 […]
Contemporary Selective Breeding. Cow Edition.
As part of our series on Culinary Modernism, I’m republishing some older pieces of writing on the theme. This piece previously was published on 26 […]
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Five | Biotech: A Tool for Sustainability
In the last volume of our Culinary Modernist Reader, we looked at farmers who are practicing sustainable industrial agriculture and showing that it does not […]
An Agromodernist Reader | Volume Four | On the Farm: The Quest for Better
In volume three of this series, we “stress tested” the legs of the locavore stool: Small. Local. Organic. Here we turn to efforts to farm […]
Can we leave the GMO discussion Clown Car behind?
[Please consider supporting FAFDL.org by making a donation to our library.] Over the weekend I had the misfortune of getting sucked into the discussion thread […]
Anti-GMO Activists Are the Ones Practicing Tobacco Science
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Best of 2014: Writings on GMOs
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Big Ag and Small Farms: Why We Need Both
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The Low Fruit Has Been Picked. High Impact Crop Breeding is Hard, Arduous Work.
Here’s a big snippet from what I think is the most interesting part of my column today about a Center for Food Safety article on […]
Asymmetry of Misinformation
Karl Frankowski | Flickr | cc A recent Paul Krugman post describes how critics of Obamacare stay misinformed, not always through incorrect information, but rather […]
Surprising News on Lobbying Spending by Industry in Labeling Fight
It’s not how much they are spending. It’s how little. Coca-Cola spent $4.8 million through the second quarter of this year; PepsiCo spent $2.34 million; […]
Q: What Do Non-pollinating Organic Corn and Arctic Apples Have In Common?
image: slappytheseal | flickr | cc A: It’s easier to change the damn crop than to change people’s thinking. Civil Eats has a story on […]
Kevin Folta’s Reddit AMA on Transgenic Crops
Worth checking out.
A Principled Case Against Mandatory GMO Labels
photo: Tasso Art | flickr | cc I am opposed to government mandated GMO labels, though I started of in favor of them. In fact […]
What the Haters Got Wrong About Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Comments on GMOs
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