(Editor's note: Introduction by Karl Haro von Mogel) On Thursday the 18th of June, the Vatican published an encyclical written by Pope Francis - an open letter addressed to "every living person on this planet." The bulk of this encyclical…
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SLATE recently published (July 12, 2013) an op-ed entitled, “Let’s Make Genetically Modified Food Open-Source.” In the op-ed, the author argued against intellectual property rights (IPRs) in food crops or food products and against corporate seed breeders using modern biology…
Drought across the United States has reduced substantially the expected yield of corn and soybean fields for the fall 2012 U.S. harvests. With reduced yield, prices have risen rapidly for these crops that are widely-used food and feed ingredients, huge…
