Tag: Gmo - Page 5
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Help Support A Sustainable Dozen For Influential USDA Positions
There was much excitement in the sustainable agriculture world that Barack Obama would appoint a truly progressive Secretary of Agriculture. Obama's nod to former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack was
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Future Biofuels Could Be Created Out of Thin Air: Craig Venter & Synthetic Genomics
With the honeymoon phase of support for first generation biofuels (those derived from food crops such as corn, soybeans, etc) pretty much over, and research into second generation fuels (cellulosic fuels and those derived from
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What the World Needs Now Is Square Trees
Belgian design collective Draw Me A Sheep notes: 'Round' is perfect in nature, but 'square' is perfect for industrial standard. To illustrate, square tree would enable wood industry to lose less material, to cut easier with machines and to
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How Science Supersized Your Turkey Dinner
Wired appears impressed at the growth and change in turkeys and corn; Most everything on your plate has undergone tremendous genetic change under the intense selective pressures of industrial farming. Pilgrims and American Indians ate foods called
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It's Time To Get GMO Soy Lecithin Out Of Certified Organic Food
Time sensitive call to action. Deadline is Monday, November 3.
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Is Organic Farming Good For Africa or Not?
A few weeks ago the Guardian went to town on genetically modified food, suggesting "their development has the potential to save lives" and lambasting Prince Charles as "a very modern Marie Antoinette" for his opinions about organic food and the dangers
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National Sustainable Agriculture Standards Debated
The Leonardo Academy has announced the first meeting of the stakeholder group that will develop "a national consensus standard for sustainable agriculture in the United States". Scientific Certification Systems, who developed
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Swiss Ethicists Consider Plants' Feelings
What does wheat want? That's a question scientists in Switzerland have to ponder now that the country is mandating that geneticists conduct their experiments with consideration to a plant's feelings, according to The Wall
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Saying No To Genetically Modified Foods In Japan
No genetically modified crops are grown commercially in Japan, perhaps one of the countries in the world with the strongest consumer opposition to "unnatural" GM foods. Yet, Monsanto and the US government continue their shameless push for the stuff.
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Study Claims Bovine Growth Hormone Good for Environment
Image: Cow with mastitis (Monica Morgan on Flickr) Just because the cow moos, doesn't mean that it's over. Thanks to giant chains such as Wal-Mart, Safeway and Kroger announcing recently that they would no longer carry milk from cows treated with
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Global Crop Diversity Trust: the Search for 'Climate-Proof' Food
Crop Diversity Vital to Climate Change Fight Earlier today Jasmin brought us a post on that epic battle - Monsanto vs. Michael Pollan on feeding the world, and the idea that climate change could disrupt our food supplies is a pretty regular theme here
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Monsanto and Michael Pollan Talk About Creating a World That Can Feed Itself
Michael Pollan and Hugh Grant (president and CEO of Monsanto, not the floppy-haired British actor) on the same panel? Bring it. In this 36-minute video, taken on Sept. 17, 2008, Pollan, Grant, and Sonal Shah, a development expert at Google.org, talk
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Does Africa Need Genetically Modified Sorghum?
Genetically modified sorghum is coming to Africa. South Africa based Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has received approval from the South Africa government to proceed with
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Genetically Modified Foods "Biggest Environmental Disaster of All Time": Prince Charles
Agree or disagree with him, there's no misunderstanding where Prince Charles thinks about, well, whatever he chooses to speak out on. In a recent interview with with the Telegraph, the Prince condemned the rush to embrace genetically modified foods
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Driving the Hydrogen Powered Fuel Cell Equinox
Before TreeHugger know-it-alls Mike and Matt came along with their more sophisticated understanding of these issues, I spent four years dissing the idea of hydrogen cars or the long-term sustainability of any kind of private vehicle when they need a
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Business Week on Monsanto, Pickens
Monsanto on the Menu: How it has transformed itself from a money-losing pariah to a $ 5 Billion pariah, and how it is betting that the food crisis will create new markets for genetically modified products. "They are trying to exploit the food crisis as
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Survey: Can GMOs Increase Our Food Supply?
Yesterday we quoted Barbara Kingsolver: "we have in every part of the world lost control of our food systems to agribusiness… [Monsanto has] quite systematically removed seed banks, have contaminated [and] diminished the genetic material that all
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Food Shortage Pulls Genetically Modified Grains Into Formerly Closed Markets
With world grain inventories running low, grain buyers who once were choosy are eying GM wheat and corn and rice sources as a cheap way to rebuild inventory. New York Times covers the story in depth. Of course, supporters of GM food can (some did)
