Are GMOs worth their weight in gold? To farmers, not exactly
Harn Soper has a real-world laboratory to test the benefits of farming with genetically modified (GM) seed. Soper’s family owns seven farms near Emmetsburg, Iowa,...
Author: Nathanael Johnson
The GM safety dance: What’s rule and what’s real
In my initial foray in this series looking for facts behind the rhetoric on transgenic food, I reasoned that, since we can’t eliminate risk, we’d...
Genetically modified seed research: What’s locked and what isn’t
In the next few posts, I’m going to look at intellectual property rights in biotechnology and corporate influence over science. There are huge, philosophical issues...
Is extremism in defense of GM food a vice?
When a study came out in 2012 associating gruesomely lumpy rats with genetically modified food, critics trashed it so thoroughly that a group of researchers...