To help educate people about the many methods that are used to generate new traits in plants, Biology Fortified has created an infographic on six different crop modification techniques, with examples of crops generated with each method. This infographic was…
Read More Introducing: Crop Modification Techniques Infographic
Around the world there are "Skeptics in the Pub" events that gather folks from the local community who are interested in issues of science, technology, health, and sometimes explore the more ephemeral things like the paranormal - ghost busting and…
Written by Steve Savage Many consumers today feel out of touch with how their food is produced and are disturbed by a lot of what they hear about it through their social networks or other sources of information. If it…
Read More Feeling Detached from Food Production? Blame Jethro Tull
Written by Stephanie Gorski Hi, I started this series to explain a little more background behind the news and opinion articles you may have seen about Bt-resistant corn rootworms, with scary titles like Voracious worm evolves to eat biotech corn…
Read More Sex and death in the cornfields, Part II- Why rootworms?
Last week, Dr. Pam Ronald gave a lecture about genetically engineered crops in Michael Pollan and Raj Patel's Edible Education 101 class. After the 1-hour lecture, she sat down with Pollan and Patel to debate and discuss the issue. The…
Last August, I was invited to speak about genetically engineered crops at a GMO Summit organized by the Hawai'i Crop Improvement Association. The event was held on the big island of Hawai'i, known for its enormous volcanoes, long beaches, and…
Written by Robert Sacerich The Anti-GMO movement has been around since before GM technology first walked across the world stage. The mere hint of it initiated the creation of activist groups against it, and the ideology of anti-GMO began before…
This week, readers of the Biofortified Blog are in for a treat. The Journal Nature has a special feature on genetically engineered crops, complete with editorials, perspectives, and an article on the next generation of these crops featuring some people…
Written by Adam Merberg In 1898, the chemist and physicist William Crookes devoted his presidential address to the British Association for the Advancement of Science to “a life and death question for generations to come.” At existing rates, he argued, the world’s…
Read More An Unlikely Fix: nitrogen fertilizer and organic agriculture
Here's a catchy tune - about coexistence! Back when genetically engineered canola was new in Canada, there was a conversation between two farmers - one who grew organic canola, and the other, GE. That conversation turned into this song: As…
