Top news of the week: 11.08.2022.
‘Feed Your Mind’: FDA releases guide on GMOs, emphasizing their safety, sustainability and occasional nutritional advantages
GMO foods have been available to consumers since the early 1990s. Since then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and U.S. Environmental ...
Study: Why plant-based meats are healthier for you and better for the planet
There are increasingly strong reasons to move away from industrial animal agriculture for the good of the environment, animals, our personal health, and public health. Plant-based animal ...
GM seeds likely to be in the hands of Ghanaian farmers by next year, scientists say
Ghanaian scientists say genetically modified seeds will most likely be in the hands of farmers by the start of the next planting season. The prediction was made during a recent AfS Live ...
Peoples Company, Stine Seed expand paid-in-full cover crop program
Landowners in 11 additional states, at a total of 16, are now eligible for the Sustainability Cover Crop Initiative.
WSJ’s The Future of Everything
In the decade since CRISPR gene-editing technology was first developed, it has been used to address a host of issues, such as developing new cancer treatments, designing faster rapid ...
Maci Mueller: Pioneering revolutionary changes in livestock breeding through gene editing
Scientific innovator Maci Mueller is using gene editing to revolutionize the way that ranchers and dairy farmers perpetuate their herds. By combining editing with other advanced ...
Senate approves additional $20 billion for voluntary conservation practices
Besides the $20 billion for land stewardship, there would be $14 billion for rural power and clean energy and $6 billion for wildfire protection and climate-smart forestry.
Sustainable Development Goals
A healthy, sustainable source of nutrition for a growing global population