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  • Addressing the 2050 Demand for Terrestrial Animal Source Food December 2, 2024
  • A Decade Since IQ2 GM Food Debate December 1, 2024
  • Funding Announced for Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Zero Net Emissions from Australian Agriculture December 12, 2023
  • Extension Critical to Mitigate Anticipated Increase in Livestock Sector GHG Emissions December 11, 2023
  • New York Times Reporting on Agriculture  November 1, 2022
  • A word about funding graduate students July 17, 2022
  • DNA is not a drug and regulating genome edited research animals as a drug is unworkable March 8, 2022
  • Public Acceptance of Animal Genomics and Biotechnology October 14, 2021
  • Contemplated Regulatory Framework Part 4 December 28, 2020
  • Regulation of Genetically Modified Animals Part 3 December 28, 2020
  • Regulation of Genetically Modified Animals Part 2 December 28, 2020
  • Regulation of Genetically Modified Animals Part 1 December 28, 2020
  • The Cost of Precautionary, Process-based Regulation (3 of 3) February 9, 2020
  • US Regulation of Transgenic Food Animals (2 of 3) February 9, 2020
  • Genetic Engineering of Livestock: 35 Years of Inaction (1 of 3) February 9, 2020
  • Rounding Up Fear (3 of 3) February 2, 2020
  • Sponsoring Falsehood (2 of 3) February 2, 2020
  • Poison-free, fossil-free California agriculture (1 of 3) February 2, 2020
  • Who is selling cultured meat? What do the consultants and the data say? 4 of 4 December 15, 2019
  • Cultured meat start-ups and venture capital: What do the data say? 3 of 4 December 15, 2019
  • Cultured meats and LCA statistics: What do the data say? 2 of 4 December 15, 2019
  • Alternative meats and alternative statistics: What do the data say? 1 of 4 December 15, 2019
  • Unnatural Selection October 20, 2019
  • Harmonize US gene-edited food regulations April 26, 2019
  • Proposed U.S. regulation of gene-edited food animals is not fit for purpose January 20, 2019
  • Proposition 12 – Humane vs. Humane August 14, 2018
  • Antibiotic Use and Food Animals January 5, 2018
  • Proposition 2 déjà vu (Part 3 of 3) January 4, 2018
  • Evidence-based animal welfare recommendations (Part 2 of 3) January 3, 2018
  • Six hens a laying (Part 1 of 3) January 2, 2018
  • Two pendulous nipples January 1, 2018
  • A look back at 2017 December 31, 2017
  • The “Worried Wealthy” September 10, 2017
  • False and Misleading July 7, 2017
  • What defines organic milk? May 14, 2017
  • Are slow-growing chickens better? February 8, 2017
  • Another Day, Another Séralini study January 28, 2017
  • FDA seeks public comments on regulation of genetically altered animals January 22, 2017
  • Who does fund University research? January 8, 2017
  • I would appreciate your comment on a recently published study January 3, 2017
  • Who should fund University research? January 2, 2017
  • Fishy Business December 22, 2016
  • Teenager raped to death and doughnuts in the surgery room December 22, 2016
  • Four Legs, Two Legs, No Legs: What Does Science Tell Us About the Best Sources of Sustainable Animal Protein? April 22, 2016
  • Maserati or a Graduate student? March 27, 2016
  • Got pests? February 23, 2016
  • Time to Accelerate Real Change February 16, 2016
  • Omega-3 fatty acids and milk February 15, 2016

Most Recent Posts

  • Addressing the 2050 Demand for Terrestrial Animal Source Food
  • A decade since IQ2 GM Food Debate
  • Funding Announced for Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Zero Net Emissions from Australian Agriculture
  • Extension Critical to Mitigate Anticipated Increase in Livestock Sector GHG Emissions
  • New York Times Reporting on Agriculture

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  • Addressing the 2050 Demand for Terrestrial Animal Source Food December 2, 2024
    I have a paper entitled “Addressing the 2050 demand for terrestrial animal source food”, in @PNASNews Special Feature on the Sustainability of Animal-Sourced Foods and Plant-Based Alternatives., published today. This Feature includes several articles that consider the sustainability implications of replacing milk, meat and eggs with alternative proteins at scale. The significance statement (aka the […]
  • A decade since IQ2 GM Food Debate December 1, 2024
    Ten years ago on December 3, 2014, I participated in an Intelligence Squared (IQ2) debate in the Kaufmann theater New York City. The topic was “Genetically Modify Food”, and unexpectedly following the 90-min debate the side arguing for GMO Food, myself and Monsanto executive vice president and chief technology officer Rob Fraley, swayed a large […]
  • Funding Announced for Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Zero Net Emissions from Australian Agriculture December 12, 2023
    AMAZING. Today the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources announced it is funding the Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) for Zero Net Emissions from Agriculture  (ZNE-Ag) to the tune of AUD $87 million to further develop and scale up technologies to reduce methane emissions from grazing cattle and sheep, and to improve crop […]
  • Extension Critical to Mitigate Anticipated Increase in Livestock Sector GHG Emissions December 11, 2023
    A 2023 report from the FAO “Pathways towards lower emissions: A global assessment of the greenhouse gas emissions and mitigation options from livestock agrifood systems” revised their previous lifecycle assessment (LCA) estimate of the percentage of greenhouse gas (GHG) due to livestock to be 6.2 gigatonnes (Gt) of carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2eq), equating to approximately […]
  • New York Times Reporting on Agriculture November 1, 2022
    Look I get it. The New York Times (NYT) does not like GMOs, industrial agriculture, factory farming or meat consumption. But I question the decision of such an influential media source to feature TWO front page articles detailing agriculture industry funding of agricultural scientists, Prof. Kevin Folta in 2015 and in 2022 Prof. Frank Mitloehner, […]

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