In 1996, global seed companies like Monsanto and Syngenta promised that genetically modified (GM) crops would be our salvation. GM crops would solve world hunger, rescue the small farmer from bankruptcy, and reduce our reliance on environmentally damaging and expensive agrochemicals. Over ten years have passed since these [...]

I spent the winter of 99-00 completing my graduate studies in forestry on the snow blown campus of Michigan Tech. The school is situated on the Keweenaw Peninsula of Michigan's UP, where the warmer air and moisture of Lake Superior combine to dump copious amounts of snow on the entire [...]

On Saturday, US Ambassador Francis Rooney urged the Vatican to promote genetically modified (GMO) crops as a partial solution to world hunger. A US policy that promotes GMO agriculture as a "moral imperative" is, to the say the least, alarming. This incident begs the question: Is Ambassador Rooney a mouthpiece of the Monsanto [...]