Will GM Salmon be a Sustainable Success, or Will it Flounder?
The Fishy Business of Rejecting Sustainable GM Salmon Science The announcement on November 19th, 2015 of regulatory approval for genetically modified (GM) salmon highlights the …
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Is Airplane Food Pablum for Adults?
Why I No Longer Eat on Planes Innovations in food preparations and presentation have made eating meals away from home an incredible and usually delightful …
Putting the Orange back in Orange Production: Citrus Greening
Novel biotechnologies might help stop plant bacteria from exterminating orange and other citrus production All around the globe orange production is being affected by Huanglongbing …
When Will You Know What the TPP Means to You?
By: William A. Kerr Bioresourse Policy, Business and Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada In early October, Canada and eleven other countries reached agreement on a major …
Still Hungry for Change
How Successful Has the World Been in Meeting the Millennium Development Goals? Source: Rahulkepapam, via Wikimedia Commons Fifteen years ago, the United Nations (UN) gathered …
Our Tasty Brains
Could our brains be wired for unhealthy food choices? Last fall, I attended a behavioural economics conference in Denmark, where guest speaker Antonio Rangel, a …
Post Foods Consumer Scam
Is deceptive labelling deceiving you? The other morning when I sat down to breakfast, I was absolutely floored (literally, not physically!) by Post Foods’ deliberate …
Banking for Sustainable Food
Weeds genomes may someday be how we feed a sustainable world “Svalbard seed vault IMG 8894” by Bjoertvedt – Own work. Licensed under CC BY-SA …
Hybridization, breeding and hybrid cultivars
By: Graham Scoles, Ph.D., PAg Hybridization Hybridization refers to the natural or deliberate pollination between two plants. It occurs all the time in the wild …
How GM papaya saved Hawaii’s papaya industry
The lush tropical islands of the Hawaiian chain are an ideal place to grow fruit. Climate conditions that provide in excess of 100 inches of …