I think we need to continue improving crops through traditional breeding, through molecular breeding, through agronomic practices like crop rotation and irrigation management, etc. Biotech is a tool to be used and it should be judged as to whether it brings value for individual farms and for the...
In the US, traditional GMOs wereregulatedby the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency (to determine if the GMO has any impact on pesticide use), the USDA, the United states Department of Agriculture (to determine if the GMO has potential to become a weed and overtake healthy crops), and ...
Organic food sales in the U.S. doubled over the last decade, but organic farming hasn’t kept pace. That may change as farmers partner with brands.
1) American consumers have a right to know and judge for themselves what they put in their own and children’s bodies. We don’t need Mama-Monsanto-knows-best force-feeding us untested, potentially unhealthy GMO food because we can’t be trusted to make our own informed decisions. 2) GMO...
We invite you to check out the full response which provides more information about GMO safety. GMOs are created for a variety of reasons. Crops are genetically modified to achieve a desired trait, such as resistance to an insect or disease. More detail on some of the traits ...
she says there is no valid reason to dismiss the technology as plant scientists race to increase crop productivity. Scientists are “facing a daunting breeding challenge,” Smith says. “We will need a second generation of transgenic crops. It would be a mistake to rule out this tool because...
In case they are not exempted from the GMO regulation, the question is: why obstruct a cisgenic potato crop that can hardly be distinguished from a potato crop that is the result of conventional breeding? Among the reasons why organic agriculture does not allow the use of GMOs it is ...
The decisions for which crops are targeted for GMO research are based on economic and political decisions that were made well before the first GMO crops were even conceived of. “In the United States, corn and soybeans are the drivers” of GMO product development, Barnett says. That’s becau...
We need to support small-scale producers (organic), local markets and regenerative agriculture. Even if you want to follow a vegan diet you need to choose certified-organic, plant-based foods grown without toxic pesticides or fertilizers. The ultimate solution of course is to have a small...
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