Nowadays, most people like to blame outgoing U.S. President George Bush for the ills of the country. In fact, much of Bush's policy originated under former president Bill Clinton. A case in point is genetically-modified, or GM, food. Under Clinton, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) staffers and executives ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts last month, about Agriculture & Food, Environmental Disasters, Genetic Modification, Health, Politics
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, part of the United Nations Environment Programme, has put out a 61 page study on organic agriculture and food security in Africa. The results may surprise some. Focusing primarily on East Africa, the study (pdf) finds that "organic agriculture can be more ... keep reading
Written by Leslie Berliant last month, about Agriculture & Food, Genetic Modification, Organic, Politics (1 comment)
In an effort to ward off a looming, future global starvation crisis, scientists and agronomists have begun a global scavenger hunt to identify food crops that will stand up to various climate change scenarios, including (but not limited to) excessive moisture, moderate drought, and warmer or unstable temperatures such as ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in October, about Agriculture & Food, Climate Change, Environmental Disasters, Genetic Modification
Editor's Note: This guest post comes to us from Carlota Bindner, a California-native and mom living in the mountains near Los Angeles. She holds a degree in Animal Science and blogs at http://chemistryofjoy.wordpress.com. I was hopping mad after seeing the new High-Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) advertisements ... keep reading
Written by Carlotta Bindner in October, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Genetic Modification, Health (6 comments)
Editor's Note: The Following is a second excerpt from Celsias writer Mickey Z.'s new book NO INNOCENT BYSTANDERS: Riding Shotgun in the Land of Denial, available at CWG Press. Read our first excerpt here. According to a study presented at the recent national meeting of the American Chemical ... keep reading
Written by Mickey Z in October, about Agriculture & Food, Children and Families, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Genetic Modification, Health, Pollution, Water
Most people in the Western World have heard of Genetically Modified (GM) plants or crops. Would it surprise you to learn that GM plants are routinely patented by companies? Probably not. What if I were to tell you though that it wasn't just GM plants that are being patented ... keep reading
Written by John P. in September, about Agriculture & Food, Environmental Disasters, Food, Genetic Modification, Health (7 comments)
Click for full view Courtesy: Throbgoblins The rise of organic farming and rejection of GM crops in Britain and other developed countries is largely to blame for the impoverishment of Africa, according to the government's former chief scientist. Sir David King, who left the job at the end ... keep reading
Written by Marc Roberts in September, about Agriculture & Food, Genetic Modification
Scientists are now working with plant genomes to create trees that literally dissolve themselves into cellulose. The research, designed to reduce the high costs of converting wood into cellulose, focuses on several novel and exceedingly strange methods to turn trees into autodigesters that literally ferment their own mass into biofuel ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in September, about Biofuels, Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Genetic Modification, Health (2 comments)
More likely it is cloud seeding, a technique used to extort water from reluctant clouds, and one soon to be practiced in Los Angeles County, California, which plans to kick off an $800,000 cloud-seeding project in the San Gabriel Mountains northeast of the city this winter to combat drought ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in July, about Environment & Wildlife, Environmental Disasters, Genetic Modification, Water, Weather
On May 21, the US Department of Agriculture, or USDA, announced that it would stop its annual publication on the kinds and amounts of pesticides applied to crops in the U.S. This annual Agricultural Chemical Usage report, begun in 1990, will no longer serve thousands of farmers, agricultural inspectors ... keep reading
Written by Jeanne Roberts in June, about Agriculture & Food, Genetic Modification, Health, Politics, Weather
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