Blake Hurst
Viewpoint: Why is a university spending as much as $100,000 to host anti-science, anti-biotechnology activist Vandana Shiva?
The University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) has invited Vandana Shiva to speak on October 7th. According to a ...
US soybean and corn farmers fear plant-based burgers and glyphosate lawsuits signal uncertain future
I’m flat busted. My Missouri corn and soybean farm is bankrupt, financially incompetent, a lousy credit risk, upside down--you pick ...
Viewpoint: Regulating CRISPR gene-edited livestock as ‘drugs’ hinders innovative research in US
In one of the final actions of the outgoing Barack Obama administration, the Food and Drug Administration announced it would ...
CRISPR opens the door on crop research by smaller companies and universities
CRISPR, a new gene-editing technique, offers an end run around the cost associated with traditional genetic engineering, allowing smaller companies ...
10 years after Michael Pollan’s ‘Omnivore’s Dilemma’ unleashed ‘anti-GMO paranoia,’ science innovation continues
Penguin Books is releasing a special tenth-anniversary edition of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan, with a new foreword by ...
How can GMO labels compromise farmer needs with consumer wants?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Even if consumers shrug ...
Food movement glorifies organic food but disdains average farmers
I'm a dodo bird. Or maybe a passenger pigeon. As a corn and soybean farmer, a chemical spraying, fertilizer spreading, ...
Farmer asks, Why are scientists sitting on the sidelines in the GMO debate?
It's perhaps too easy to laugh off the whole GMO issue: the opponents so over the top, the proponents, including ...