
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 […]
Guest Author: Kevin Folta, professor and chairman of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida | Follow him on Twitter: @kevinfolta […]
Guest Author: Pamela Ronald | Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis This piece originally appeared in The Conversation. It appears here under a […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
Karl Frankowski | Flickr | cc A recent Paul Krugman post describes how critics of Obamacare stay misinformed, not always through incorrect information, but rather […]
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; […]
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 […]
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photo: Tasso Art | flickr | cc I am opposed to government mandated GMO labels, though I started of in favor of them. In fact […]
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