GENETIC ENGINEERING
Further study is unlikely to turn up any reason why AquaBounty’s fast-growing genetically engineered salmon shouldn’t be fit for human consumption, but whether the product will succeed in the market is another question.
AGRICULTURAL INNOVATION
The USDA and land-grant universities have a long and proud tradition of driving place-based agricultural innovation. But the shifting funding model for agricultural research may leave our food system with too few options for the future.
AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE
Why what you think you know about agricultural biotechnology may be wrong.
AGRICULTURE
We need not be shy about expressing our ethical predilections in the realm of caring for animals but we should be cautious in presuming that those predilections are supported by science.
AGRICULTURE
Biotechnology can help the poor, but whether it will depends on people of good will taking the time to understand and consider the arguments in some detail.
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