Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology

The International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) released their annual report on global adoption of genetically modified (GM) on February 23, 2010. An executive summary of Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2009 – The first fourteen  years, 1996 to 2009 presents highlights of the amazing growth...

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Chad Dechow Associate Professor, Dairy Cattle Genetics Department of Dairy and Animal Science The Pennsylvania State University “Instead of redesigning the factory farm to suit the animals, they are redesigning the animals to suit the factory farm” Matthew Scully. The American Conservative, May 23, 2005. My most memorably painful experience occurred when I was a teenage...

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Terry D. Etherton The Opinion-Editorial published in the New York Times was passed along to me earlier today.  As readers of Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology appreciate, I have written about a variety of topics across the landscape of science and agriculture; defending science, as well as attempting to counter attacks...

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By Scott Kilman and Thomas Catan The Wall Street Journal Posted January 15, 2010 The U.S. Justice Department has opened a formal antitrust investigation into crop-biotechnology giant Monsanto Company as it contends with the loss of patent protection on its blockbuster soybean in 2014. Monsanto on Thursday received a formal demand from the Justice...

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FASS Shares AVMA’s Concerns Regarding Pew Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production Posted January 5, 2010 The Federation of Animal Science Societies (FASS) has analyzed the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production’s report Putting Meat on the Table: Industrial Farm Animal Production in America as well as the American Veterinary Medical...

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A post from the Center for Consumer Freedom Posted January 5, 2010 We took a look last week at some details of the 2008 tax return filed by the deceptive Humane Society of the United States (HSUS). The filing shows that HSUS paid out less than one-half of one percent of its...

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Terry D. Etherton I have spent the last few weeks attending many Holiday celebrations and receptions.  A key component of these fabulous gatherings has been all of the delicious food.  In addition, I have received many food gifts from family, friends and colleagues. We are deeply fortunate to live in a country...

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Council for Biotechnology Information Published December 16, 2009 With so many stories to choose from, it was hard for us to determine the top agricultural biotechnology story of 2009. Therefore, we turned to the Council for Biotechnology Information (CBI) experts and let them choose the top three stories that stood out in...

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Michael Specter, a staff writer with the New Yorker, confronts the widespread fear of science and the negative impact it could have on scientific progress in the areas of  global agriculture, health and nutrition in his new book Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our...

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The Economist published an article in their prestigious “The World in 2010” issue about the clear-cut environmental benefits of agricultural biotechnology.   The author, Matt Ridley, writes that the results of agricultural biotechnology are astonishing and promising, as genetically modified crops need less land and water to achieve the same yield. This...

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