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  Are GMOs the Answer to Global Food Security?

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  Sustainable Food: I want to preface this article by saying that I'm playing the devil's advocate here. I personally don't believe that the proliferation of GMOs will p

  

  Ellen Sabina • January 27 • 1

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  Freedom Exists in a Seed: JL Hudson Seed Bank

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  Sustainable Food: January marks a special kind of time for the small farmer, community gardener or hobbyist. It is the time where we start to plan our coming seasons,

  

  Keri Marion • January 24 • 0

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  Wal-Mart Announces Plan to Push "Healthy" Foods

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  Sustainable Food: Today the nations largest retailer, Wal-Mart, will announce its plan to revamp its line of food products in an effort to provide more healthy food op

  

  Ellen Sabina • January 20 • 0

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  Australian Organic Farm Cross Contaminated With GM Crop

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  Sustainable Food: A certified organic grain farmer in Australia, Mr. Stephen Marsh, has recently discovered that nearly 70% of his organic farm has been infected by cr

  

  Keri Marion • January 16 • 0

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  Wikileaks Reveals US Supports GMOs and Counteracts Sustainable Agriculture Abroad

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  Sustainable Food: One of the many US embassy cables recently made public via Wikileaks chronicles conversations around sustainable food issues, specifically the use (o

  

  Ellen Sabina • January 16 • 2

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  Sustainable Agriculture & GMOs

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  Sustainable Food: When talking about sustainable agriculture and genetically modified (GM)/ genetically engineered (GE) organisms, the debate can get thick and haughty

  

  Keri Marion • January 16 • 1

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  Genetically Modified Crops & You

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  Sustainable Food: Genetically modified organisms (also sometimes called "genetically engineered organisms, or simply genetically engineered / GE), specifically food cr

  

  Keri Marion • January 16 • 0

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  Food Safety: Protecting Organic Food Against Pesticides

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  Sustainable Food: While food safety regulations don't necessarily discriminate against non-organic food grown with the heavy use of pesticides, there are certainly man

  

  Ellen Sabina • January 06 • 1

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  Soybeans and Environmental Sustainability

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  Sustainable Food: Environmental sustainability is more deeply rooted in methods of permaculture than industrial farming; many of our largest economic crops are still f

  

  Keri Marion • January 03 • 3

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  GMOs: What Are They?

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  Sustainable Food: For many people the definition of a Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) is veiled at best. The terms GMO and Genetically Engineered (GE) in regards t

  

  Keri Marion • December 29 • 0

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  Organic Food: GMO Alfalfa is Still on the Menu

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  Sustainable Food: Organic Food Today put out a press release that talks about the court's decision to deregulate Genetically Modified (GM) / Genetically Engineered (GE

  

  Keri Marion • December 28 • 0

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  GMO Alfalfa - Vilsack Revisits Court Decision

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  Sustainable Food: Early last summer (2010), Monsanto had won a court case to lift the ban on Genetically Modified Alfalfa, or RoundUp Ready Alfalfa, through the United

  

  Keri Marion • December 17 • 0

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  GMO Corn: A New Route

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  Sustainable Food: While browsing the USDA website for new articles on Genetically Modified Organisms in the food supply, I ran across a proposal to use GM Corn that ha

  

  Keri Marion • October 31 • 0

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  GMOs & The FDA

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  Sustainable Food: While browsing the Food and Drug Administration's website, I noticed a whole section on genetically engineered animals. It's a good discussion to hav

  

  Keri Marion • September 19 • 0

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  Healthy Food, HFCS & Marketing, Part 1

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  Sustainable Food: Part One of Two High Fructose Corn Syrup has really had a bad rap in the discussion of healthy food, and for good reason. Blamed for obesity, market

  

  Keri Marion • September 16 • 2

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  Healthy Food, HFCS & Marketing, Part 2

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  Sustainable Food: Continued from Part One Because HFCS is extremely sweet - much sweeter than table sugar - the other major claim to its health drawbacks is that it s

  

  Keri Marion • September 16 • 0

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  Genetically Modified Salmon: FDA is Near to Allow Into Market

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  Sustainable Food: Aqua Bounty Technologies, Inc. has created a new kind of GMO fish that grows bigger, faster, and has now been deemed "safe to eat" by the Food and Dr

  

  Keri Marion • September 07 • 1

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  The Bees Knees: Ron Hoskins' Progress in Sustainable Agriculture

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  Sustainable Food: Sustainable agriculture requires a multitude of things in tandem, bees notwithstanding. As we all know, our collective bee population has been declin

  

  Keri Marion • August 29 • 0

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  Oil Dispersant Working Its Way Into The Food Chain

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  Sustainable Food: I just read an article describing the use of a chemical dispersant as a method to break up the oil from the massive spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The

  

  Keri Marion • August 01 • 0

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  Academic Input Towards Sustainable Agriculture

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  Sustainable Food: In my last article that discusses the concepts of agroecology, what is in my opinion probably the only absolutely sustainable agriculture, I mentione

  

  Keri Marion • August 01 • 0

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