Delan Perry's papaya farm on the Big Island of Hawaii may be a bit off the beaten path. But it's smack in the middle of a worldwide debate about one of life's essentials: the very food we eat. His ...

If you’ve had a soda, a bag of chips or a store-bought cookie in the past 20 years, chances are you’ve eaten genetically modified organisms — better known as GMOs. For years, food containing GMOs have ...

No seed companies sell GMO seeds to home gardeners -- whether the company publicly states it or not. (NOLA.com|The Times-Picayune archive) Home gardeners can have great success without delving too ...

Imagine you have been a farmer on the Great Plains, growing canola seed for 40-odd years, and all of a sudden, in your early 70s, Monsanto Corp. lays a lawsuit on you claiming you were growing their ...

The Purple Galaxy Tomato splashed across the cover of this season's Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds catalog: a closeup of a blackish-purple tomato speckled with tiny pink dots. Next to it, sits a sliced ...

Tonight on NewsHour Weekend, we report from Hawaii, where a battle has erupted in Kauai between residents concerned about public health and large companies developing genetically modified seeds.

It rises each fall in the midst of northern Colorado’s farmlands, a mini-mountain that from a distance looks like a pile of dirt. About 30,000 pounds of sugar beets tumble out of each truck that backs ...

Mark Lynas has written a timely and important book about changing sides on the topic of genetically modified crops, or GMOs. Whether you support or oppose that technology, “Seeds of Science” is full ...

A lawsuit in Australia could pose a threat to the biotech's genetically modified seed empire. In 2010, a western Australia organic farmer, Steve Marsh, found that his harvest had been contaminated by ...

Esquisa Omaña is a Venezuelan biologist and ecologist, a researcher at the Transdisciplinary Ecology for Human Wellbeing Laboratory at the Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), and a ...