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Tag Archives: Sustainability
We’ve Just Planted the World’s 5-Billionth Acre of GM Crops
The world’s farmers have passed a remarkable milestone: We’ve just planted the world’s 5-billionth acre of genetically modified crops. We don’t know exactly where it happened or even on what day it occurred. But we know that it must have taken place this spring, probably in the northern hemisphere, according to statistics maintained by the Global Farmer Network (formerly Truth About Trade & Technology), which has tracked the global planting and harvesting of these remarkable Read More >
Celebrating Earth Day and GMOs
Today is Earth Day, and people around the world are celebrating the holiday in different ways. Whether it’s biking to work, recycling, or getting involved with a community cleanup, people are thinking about their environmental footprint. And the food that people eat is part of this effort as well. You may not know that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are helping to create a new era of sustainability in agriculture and food production. Our Earth Day Read More >
Biotech Crops Continue to Benefit Farmers Worldwide
Despite showing a 1 percent net marginal decrease in biotech crop acres (for the first time in 20 years), the annual ISAAA report shows that biotech crops are still preferred by 18 million farmers around the world for the environmental and economic benefits they provide. The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) report, “20th Anniversary of the Global Commercialization of Biotech Crops (1996-2015) and Biotech Crop Highlights in 2015,” details the global Read More >
Why Tom And Gisele’s Diet Is Actually The Worst
SciBabe Yvette D’Entremont writes a detailed report in Cosmopolitan about fad diets and misconceptions about health, nutrition and food safety. Specifically, D’Entremont examines the diets of Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen and reports on how eliminating sugar, flour, caffeine, and basically everything else from your diet will not make you look like a supermodel: Who hasn’t dreamed in vain of looking like Gisele Bündchen or Tom Brady? Now you can at least eat like them, Read More >
Hawaii is Ground Zero for Ag Innovation
Hawaii’s farmers have endured their share of challenges in recent years: Without regard for the opinions of local farmers, GMO activists have pushed for bans on the use of biotechnology; many farms suffered devastation from 2014’s Hurricane Isselle; Anti-biotech activists chopped down hundreds of Hawaii’s papaya trees that were genetically engineered to resist the ringspot virus; and now, Hawaii’s sugar plantations are disappearing. Amid these hardships, Hawaii’s farmers remain proud about the role they play Read More >
