{"id":65,"date":"2013-03-30T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-30T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/30\/do-gmos-yield-more-food-the-answer-is-in-the-semantics-boing-boing\/"},"modified":"2013-03-30T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-30T15:51:00","slug":"do-gmos-yield-more-food-the-answer-is-in-the-semantics-boing-boing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/30\/do-gmos-yield-more-food-the-answer-is-in-the-semantics-boing-boing\/","title":{"rendered":"Do GMOs yield more food? The answer is in the semantics &#8211; Boing Boing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2013\/03\/29\/do-gmos-yield-more-food-the-a.html\">Do GMOs yield more food? The answer is in the semantics &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a>: <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Today, on Twitter, I learned something new and interesting from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/gwire\/2009\/12\/21\/21greenwire-quiet-biotech-revolution-transforming-crops-15902.html\">environmental reporter Paul Voosen<\/a>. Over the years, I&#8217;ve run into reports (like this one from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucsusa.org\/food_and_agriculture\/our-failing-food-system\/genetic-engineering\/failure-to-yield.html\">the Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a>) showing that genetically modified crops \u2014 i.e. Roundup Ready corn and soybeans, which is really the stuff we&#8217;re talking about most of the time in these situations \u2014 don&#8217;t increase intrinsic yields of those crops. But I&#8217;ve also seen decent-looking data that seemed to suggest exactly the opposite. So what gives?<\/div>\n<div>Turns out, this is largely an issue of terminology&#8230;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do GMOs yield more food? The answer is in the semantics &#8211; Boing Boing: Today, on Twitter, I learned something new and interesting fromenvironmental reporter Paul Voosen. Over the years, I&#8217;ve run into reports (like this one from\u00a0the Union of Concerned Scientists) showing that genetically modified crops \u2014 i.e. Roundup Ready corn and soybeans, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}