Terry D. Etherton
Increasing agriculture productivity to meet growing global demand for food must be accompanied by an intense, innovative effort to enhance the environmental imprint of farming to be sustainable.
“We face the daunting challenge of nearly doubling agriculture production to meet the demands of the estimated 9 billion people [...]
Paul Patterson
Professor of Poultry Science
Penn State University
For those readers who have been following the news about eggs and salmonella, here is a very informative Op-Ed article written by Dr. Patterson that was published online in the New York Times on August 25.
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The American food system, and in particular egg producers in [...]
Virginia Ishler
Dairy Complex Manager
Department of Dairy and Animal Science
Penn State University
News media has a tendency to portray certain aspects of agricultural production either positively or negatively. Doug Powell, an associate professor of food safety at Kansas State University co-authored a paper on “Coverage of organic agriculture in North American newspapers: Media – [...]
Terry D. Etherton
Scientists at Stanford University have published provocative new findings that agriculture’s “Green Revolution” has greatly reduced forest clear-cutting and resulting climate-warming emissions. This is a remarkable (but not unexpected) benefit of contemporary production agriculture, and the application of technologies (and biotechnologies) that have boosted efficiency of food [...]
Terry D. Etherton
I never cease to be amazed at the political process in Europe that keeps hindering adoption of safe and effective ag biotechnologies. The latest folly occurred on July 7, 2010 when Members of the European Parliament (MEP) renewed their appeal for a ban on food from cloned animals [...]