Ecologist
Viewpoint: Regenerative ranching – promoted by organic activists from Vandana Shiva to the Organic Consumers Association — has turned out to be a massive scam
While the regenerative potential of many agricultural techniques is widely accepted among ecologists, the inclusion of ranching is disputed. ...
Impossible Foods rebuffs activist Vandana Shiva’s ‘illogical, ironic’ plant-based GMO burger boycott
For decades, Vandana Shiva has been an outspoken activist against genetic engineering and the products that result from it, such ...
Viewpoint: Let’s change how we farm and eat to stop ‘climate breakdown’
My spirits have been lifted by Greta Thunberg, the school climate strikers, Extinction Rebellion, and – perhaps most strikingly – ...
Ecological Armageddon? Scientists criticize media coverage of insect study that raised questions about farm pesticide use
Results of a study of insects in protected areas across Germany earned dramatic headlines warning of "ecological Armageddon". ... [T]he ...
Are GMO crops a ‘quick fix’ that perpetuate unsustainable agriculture?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The rational response to ...
Are other crop improvement techniques overtaking GMOs?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This may come as ...
Does the Gates Foundation promote corporate interests over public interests in the GMO debate?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. GMO proponents like to ...
Zika, pesticides, microcephaly shrouded in misinformed hysteria
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I recently published an article on ...
European anti-GMO activists: ‘Gene-editing must be regulated as GMOs’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [T]he ...
Are anti-GMO activists really winning the debate?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Over the course of ...
Prominent anti-GMO critic praises Cornell’s Alliance for Science for constructive debate
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Something important just happened ...
Poland becomes tenth EU country to opt out of GMO cultivation
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Poland has just registered with ...
30 scientists announce support of Scotland’s GMO ban
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scotland's decision to maintain ...
Anti-GMO ecology activists reject BBC’s Panorama portraying them as ‘fear mongers’
The pro-GM bias of the BBC was plain to see during Monday's (8th June) Panorama programme 'GM Food - Cultivating ...
Chipotle’s GMO-free decision could be beginning of end of GMO era
The decision of the Chipotle restaurant chain to make its product lines GMO-free is not most people's idea of a ...
Agroecology can ‘save the world’ from GMO-led industrial agriculture
Imagine the scenario: world food production has become concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite who, backed by powerful ...
Anti-GM campaigners concerned over UK’s plans to plant GM crops in next few years
The government is preparing for the planting of GM crops in the UK by putting in place 'rules' to govern ...
Gates Foundation, GMO banana face renewed attacks
Among the controversial projects funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the development and testing of a biofortified ...
New UN food czar: Need small farms, not ‘industrial ag’ to feed the world
Modern industrial agricultural methods can no longer feed the world, due to the impacts of overlapping environmental and ecological crises ...
Filipino farmers faction calls for ‘immediate halt’ to Golden Rice trials
A year after the uprooting of Golden Rice, more than a hundred farmers, scientists, consumers and basic sectors are calling ...
Compromise by pro- and anti-GMO countries opens door to GM crop cultivation in European Union
An unholy alliance of pro- and anti-GMO countries have struck a deal that will sweep away the obstacles to genetically ...
52 countries and 47 US states join anti-GMO March Against Monsanto
The March Against Monsanto took place late May in over 400 cities worldwide. As many as a million people are estimated to ...
Anti-GMO Ecologist magazine claims ‘extreme levels’ of glyphosate residue in GM soy
Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Surprisingly, almost no data exist in the scientific literature ...
‘Precautionary Principle’ justifies GMO bans, restrictions
If you want to know where someone stands on health and environment there can be few better barometers than their ...
Ecologist challenges claims that GMOs and conventional foods are ‘substantially equivalent’
Several new studies carried out by scientists independent of the biotech industry are showing up glaring differences between GMOs and ...
People aren’t waiting for the FDA to label GMOs
While GM labeling is slowly gaining ground, the Non-GMO, GM-Free, and Organic labels are taking US health food markets by ...
Ecologist magazine pushes ‘Agent Orange’ demonization of GM corn, soybeans
A new report published today examines the dangers of the pesticide 2,4-D - an ingredient of Vietnam's Agent Orange - ...
Ecologist amps anti-Golden Rice campaign
The Ecologist, the once-venerable UK environmental magazine, has launched another salvo in its campaign against Golden Rice. The vitamin A ...