Tag: Gmo - Page 3
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Genetically Modified Rape Taking Over North Dakota
Back when the bright yellow flowers were still known as Rape or Oilseed rape, Brassica napus produced a bitter oil, unsuitable for human consumption and used mainly to lubricate machines. Canadian researchers bred an edible
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Saving the Earth by Shrinking Humans
If you have run out of controversial topics for dinner conversation, or websites to stumble upon, here's one for you. The Incredible Shrinking Man project researches and reviews the "implications of genetically
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Genetically-Modified Salmon May Be Declared "Safe" for Human Consumption in US
This proposed commercial genetic trick - inserting the genes of a "pout fish" (as pictured)
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Can Audubon's "Frozen Zoo" Save Endangered Species?
With the recent declaration of the rusty grebe extinction, due to a non-native carnivorous snakehead murrel being introduced to its habitat, Lake Alaotra in Madagascar, as
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Scientists Creating 'Extremophile' Super Bug to Make Fuel
What's more extreme than an extremophile? How about a new and improved version of the bug, a bacteria that thrives
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Ask Pablo: Am I An Eco-Hypocrite For Using Roundup To Control Weeds?
My answer might surprise you, but the most commonly used herbicidal spray, Glyphosate (commonly known as Roundup), may
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Super Weeds, Bees, and Diabetes: 7 Food Safety Predictions
Happy as a pigweed in GMOs. Appropriately named superweed takes over a soybean field. Photo by Pawpaw67 via Flickr The Organic Center, a research institute focused on the science of organic food and farming, recently revealed concerns for the state of
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Genetically Motified Means Higher Yield? Not For This Soya
Easier growing and a higher yield are just two of the purported benefits of genetically modified crops, but a Greenpeace
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Vatican Cautions Against GMOs
For years, groups both for and against Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have been lobbying for endorsement from the Vatican. Up until now the the Holy See has remained neutral on the subject although
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Is Genetically Engineering Animals To Not Feel Pain Really the Solution to Factory Farming?
Last week the New York Times ran an op-ed piece by PhD-to-be philosopher-neuroscientist-psychologist Adam Shriver, from Washington University in St Louis, that really cuts to the heart of one of the deepest issues in the green
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Scientists Unlock One Mystery of Photosynthesis
It is one of the mysteries that makes life on earth possible: plants can grab energy out of sunlight and convert it into chemical energy. This energy works its way up the food chain. Without it, we could
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India Suspends First GM Food Crop Introduction - Environment Minister Wants More Tests
Genetically-modified cotton has been grown in India since 2002, but until today it appeared that the nation's first GM food crop would be introduced in 2010. BBC News and other outlets are reporting that the start of GM
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Scientists Attempt to Resurrect Extinct Giant Ox
Photo: The Art Archive digg_url = 'http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/02/scientists-attempt-to-resurrect-extinct-giant-ox.php'; Two million years ago, an enormous species of ox, called Aurochs, emerged from regions of northern India and migrated into
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Genetically Engineered Alfalfa Shouldn't Be Deregulated by USDA (Opinion)
Ten years ago in the United States, the word locavore didn't exist in our
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From the Forums: Organ Damage on the Cob
Wildlifer has some scary news: Researchers say some types of genetically modified corn have led to signs of organ damage in rats. Mmmm . . . give me some more of those muffins with the built-in-pesticide seasoning!
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Monsanto Has Farmers Cornered
I've written extensively about genetically modified organisms (GMOS). Farmers are essentially giving up the wheel to corporate entities that research, develop, and mass produce seeds. But a recent story on NPR brings to light how
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The Best and Worst of 2009: The Year in Food, Food Fights, and Future Food (Slideshow)
As the decade rolls to a close, we can look to 2009 as a pretty amazing year in food. From organic food to organic agriculture, genetically modified organisms to food shortages, and food fights to the future of food, it was a big year in food in 2009;
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RIP: Saab
GM bought Saab about 20 years back and gradually made them increasingly Chevy-like. Platform synergy blah blah. Unsurprisingly, no other companies want to buy it from GM. So now, they are are going to close
