Sentences with phrase «as traditional crops»

It's time to demand that the government be responsible to its citizens and enact mandatory labeling of GMOs instead of pretending that GMO crops are the same as traditional crops.

Monsanto failed to tell them that the crop was very susceptible to bollworms, a virulent parasite, and the GM cotton required twice the amount of water as traditional crops.

Arguably they are not just as safe as traditional crops, but safer.

Not exact matches

The compositional evaluation of crops intentionally modified to express altered nutritional properties, such as GR2E Golden Rice, is intended to determine whether the composition differs significantly from its traditional counterpart aside from the intended change, and to assess the safety of the intended change and any unintended changes.

The discovery also demonstrates the importance of conserving the genetic diversity of traditional crop varieties such as Kasalath.

That's why the Rainforest Alliance works with farmers to advance a variety of strategies, such as crop intensification (growing more food on less land), and with traditional forest - dwellers to develop livelihoods that don't hurt forests or ecosystems.

Dr Henrik Stotz said: «As traditional methods of controlling crop disease become less effective, the need to breed new strains of crops with an inbuilt resistance to the disease pathogens increases.

A larger chemical arsenal alone will not solve the problem, but in combination with traditional weed management, such as tilling and crop rotation, it should make it harder for unwanted plants to evolve resistance.

These «second - generation» bioenergy crops are often seen as the future of bioenergy because, as perennials, they are far better at storing carbon in the soil and in their biomass than traditional fuel crops like corn and canola.

«Tomatoes of the same quality as normal, but using only half the water: Some farmers have already expressed their interested in these water - sustainable products that can produce more compound health benefits than traditional crops.»

For example, plant breeders working to develop crops that can resist pests and diseases or higher temperatures often look to the broad range of plants and traditional crops in primary regions of diversity as sources of useful traits for crop improvement.

Dr. Shabala and his colleagues note that recent research on salt bladders creates the exciting possibility of modifying genes in traditional crops such as wheat or rice to allow them to develop salt bladders without a major impact on their growth and yield.

Traditional biofuels such as bioethanol are made from food crops like corn and sugarcane that require prime agricultural land — a commodity in relatively short supply.

The anti-GMO clichés go something like this: GM crops are unsafe to eat; they are bad for the environment; they are a tool of agribusiness corporations; and they exploit poor farmers who must buy seed as opposed to their traditional practice of saving seed.

Generally, though, scientists hold that food containing GMOs are just as safe to consume as food that comes from crops modified through traditional breeding techniques.

While they still depend on the forest for traditional hunting and gathering, most Amerindians, as American indigenous people are called, grow crops (like bananas, manioc, and rice), use western goods (like metal pots, pans, and utensils), and make regular trips to towns and cities to bring foods and wares to market.

I have a Forever 21 trench that looks like the one in your photo (not as nice as yours), not cropped but not the traditional above the knee length.

As the possible publishing choices have become more and more obvious to many, many authors (at least those without heads stuck deeply in the sand on one side or the another), a nasty problem with traditional publishing has cropped up.

As the WSJ article notes, there is debate about whether the decline in sales / profits for the traditional publishers is because of the increase in e-book prices under the new contracts or because of a crop of lackluster titles.

Traditional commodity ETFs such as the iShares S&P GSCI Commodity - Indexed Trust (GSG) simply hold long positions in various crops, metals and energy products, and if commodity prices fall, so does the value of the fund.

Ear cropping is traditional (as a flock guardian, dogs are at an advantage if the prey have no ears to bite at) but not required even for show dogs.

This remote and rarely visited region offers the trekker an insider's view into traditional Andean life — a timeless world where farmers plant their crops on the lands their ancestors tended and watch over herds of llama and alpaca beneath the sacred snow - covered peaks they worshipped as gods.

The locals around the lake still harvest crops by hand and usually wear a traditional dress, such as women working in petticoats and bowler hats and children in colorful Andean clothes.

The game includes the elements of traditional farming games such as animal care and husbandry, crop growing, relationships with townsfolk etc..

First, there's the perennial «Tau Are Too Anime» debate which always crops up, and while you can not deny that the Tau were designed with at least some Asian influence, their vehicles and armor are a far cry from anything an anime fan would remark as traditional mecha design.

Rooted in her belief that «a unified style is not preordained,» Semmel pushes beyond traditional notions of scale, as well as color, as shown in Crossed Limbs (2016), in which she depicts her figure in naturalistic tones, and crops the composition to the point that the forms of her body become a landscape.

Another category is biomass grown in excess of what would have grown absent the demand for bioenergy, such as growing winter cover crops for energy and replacing traditional — yet inefficient — fuel wood harvests in some poor countries with wood grown in agroforestry systems and local plantations.

As snow melts faster on the peaks from warmer temperatures, farmers, who have stuck with traditional crops, have been thrown into turmoil.

From an environmentally degraded monoculture, they transformed the farm by switching to native breeds, Highland cattle and Hebridean sheep, growing traditional crops such as oats in the sheaf for winter fodder.

This is particularly true for communities such as those in the Torres Strait which rely on traditional harvest from the land and oceans, and small crops.

As the publicly - traded REIT sector continues to go through a wave of consolidation, new additions to the traditional REIT ranks are cropping up.