Sprouting Science

Let's crank up the pressure on Greenpeace and similar dogmatic anti-biotechnology organizations. They've been feeding at the trough of irrational fear and hate for over two decades, and people have suffered because of it.

More than 100 Nobel laureates take on Greenpeace over GMO stance Latest sign of rift between scientific establishment and anti-GMO activists

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It's just sugar.

"I think many people see food growing in their backyard and a salad at dinner throughout the summer season and assume they are feeding themselves," Moskal said. "They don't realize that calorie-wise, that's not really the whole picture."

Cities in milder climates could produce somewhat more, but in most cases, crops grown within city limits can only provide enough food for a tiny fraction of the population.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160113173505.htm

Urban food crop production capacity and competition with the urban forest We applied the method to Seattle, WA, and found that that between 1% and 4% of Seattle's population could be supported with a complete vegetarian diet from food grown within the city.

Pretty flower uses dead arthropods to lure protectors A sticky columbine from California lures arthropods to their death to lure protectors to the plant, a new study suggests.

What do genetically modified plants have in common with the toughest animals in the world? They both have genes transferred from other species. Current GMO crops carry one or two externally acquired genes, but tardigrades have hundreds.

http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/11/tardigrades-worlds-toughest-animals-borrowed-a-sixth-of-their-dna-from-microbes/417243/

Inside the Fascinating Genome of the World’s Toughest Animal