Top news of the week: 23.06.2020.
Biotechnology, Intensive farming, Industrial agriculture, Agriculture, Bee, Wildculture
Food And Agriculture
An excellent essay on how anti-GMO activists co-opted and abused the UN Biodiversity Conference to promote anti-biotech agenda halting progress in the developing countries https://t.co/Ntdc71PvBJ
OpenViewpoint: GMO skeptics abuse UN Biodiversity Conference to promote anti-biotech agenda
Countless people continue to suffer and die needlessly as a result of the arbitrary and unscientific restrictions forged at the UN.
Viewpoint: How organic farming exploits consumer demand for 'authenticity' @henryimiller https://t.co/MOPdZpNYZk
OpenViewpoint: How organic farming exploits consumer demand for ‘authenticity’
Seeking 'authenticity' is fine -- unless it deprives you of something beneficial.
Growing more food on less land is the most important action we can take to protect insect habitat and biodiversity. https://t.co/lkBOLa33lv @JonEntine
OpenDisaster interrupted: Which farming system better preserves insect populations: Organic or conventional?
A three-year run of fragmentary Armageddon-like studies had primed the journalism pumps and settled the media framing about the future
RT @henryimiller: Purdue and Microsoft launch a powerful, new tool to detect glitches in our food supply chains: https://t.co/Atgm51f3e6. Kudos to @jaysonlusk at Purdue! @purduemitch @PurdueAg @KHefferon
OpenHow To Fix The Coronavirus-Caused Glitches In The Food Supply Chain
A novel collaboration between Purdue University and Microsoft could be used to avoid potential disruptions.
RT @ScienceAlly: Trying to figure out the new @USDA rule for genetic engineering? @JaffeGregory will walk you through it at 11 am EDT Tues., June 23.
https://t.co/eRmbyGcW6Q https://t.co/7EIioktGxx
OpenUS Revamps Genetic Engineering Rule
Greg Jaffe, director of Project on Biotechnology for the Center for Science in the Public Interest, breaks down the long-awaited updates from the United States Department of Agriculture ...
ASA joined ag businesses & associations in a letter to President Trump, commending the Administration on advancing the China Phase 1 agreement & encouraging them to continue working w/ China to allow more time to fulfill its Phase 1 commitments: https://t.co/7AZqKAygtx #AgPolicy https://t.co/aWykpCocsl
OpenLetter to the President - U.S. China Phase I Trade Agreement 6 16 2020.pdf
Ag Partners Agri Beef Co. Agribusiness Council of Indiana Agriculture and Food Transporters Conference Agricultural Retailers Association Agriculture Transportation Coalition …
Are we facing an 'Insect Apocalypse' caused by 'intensive, industrial' farming and agricultural chemicals? The media say yes; Science says ‘no’ https://t.co/5yE1grlrtP
OpenAre we facing an ‘Insect Apocalypse’ caused by ‘intensive, industrial’ farming and agricultural chemicals? The media say yes; Science says ‘no’
he media call it the “Insect Apocalypse”. In the past three years, the phrase has become an accepted truth of the journalism literati, and usually
Despite there being a wide range of foods—GMO and non-GMO—available to consumers, there is some confusion around what GMOs are and how they are used in our food supply. The @US_FDA has put together a new resource to answer consumer questions about GMOs. https://t.co/xw7zis4W7G https://t.co/A4Y90FAkaT
OpenAgricultural Biotechnology
GMO foods have been available to consumers since the early 1990s. Since then, the FDA, EPA, and USDA have worked together to ensure that crops produced through genetic engineering for sale ...