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GLP podcast: Oops — heirloom seed company markets GM tomato; Anti-biotech movement in retreat; Bill Gates does more harm than good?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
An heirloom seed company that prides itself on selling GMO-free products mistakenly put a genetically engineered tomato on the cover ...
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Anti-GMO Advocacy Funding Tracker: Vast network of donors and NGOs seed doubt about crop biotechnology

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Who is David and who is Goliath when it comes to the GMO debate? Anti-biotech activists have long maintained that ...
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Dissecting claims about Monsanto suing farmers for accidentally planting patented seeds

Layla Katiraee | 
Much to the dismay of anti-GMO activists, courts around the world including SCOTUS have consistently upheld the rights of companies ...
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Podcast and video: Animal mRNA vaccines under fire; Too many antibiotics in agriculture? Does ‘Big Ag’ control the global seed market?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The same technology that yielded COVID-19 vaccines could help protect livestock from deadly diseases, but a growing chorus of skeptics ...
GLP Podcast: Monsanto owns farmers? Evolution of pet parenting; Soylent abandons GMO advocacy

GLP Podcast: Monsanto owns farmers? Evolution of pet parenting; Soylent abandons GMO advocacy

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Does Monsanto control the seeds Mexico's farmers can grow? No, but anti-GMO groups do. An increasing number of Americans don't ...
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Another study finds glyphosate herbicide kills tumor cells. Is the much-maligned weedkiller a cancer fighter?

Cameron English | 
If Roundup or one of its ingredients turns out to be an effective cancer treatment, it would be a stunning ...
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Podcast: Glyphosate boosts cancer risk 41%? How a questionable claim from a flawed study went viral

Cameron English, Geoffrey Kabat, Kevin Folta | 
As a rule, scientific research is relegated to obscure technical journals and goes unnoticed by most people. Every few months, ...
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David v Goliath? What reporters and activists got wrong about 3 high-profile Monsanto patent suits

Marc Brazeau | 
Anti-GMO folk hero and canola farmer Percy Schmeiser was the best-known avatar of the idea that Monsanto, now part of ...
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Conspiracy promoter Mike ‘Health Ranger’ Adams built online disinformation Natural News online empire that subverts science, report finds

Cameron English, Jon Entine | 
Alternative health guru and conspiracy theorist Mike Adams, founder of the popular website Natural News, has been identified as the ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-Monsanto biopic ‘Percy’ tells misleading tale about GMOs and seed patents

Marc Brazeau | 
As any experienced moviegoer knows, "This film is based on a true story" is more of a disclaimer than a ...
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‘Rethinking Monsanto’: Ex-GMO skeptic explains what he got wrong about Big Ag and the pitfalls of plant breeding

Marc Brazeau | 
Beginning in 2010, I embarked on a slow-motion conversion from GMO skeptic to advocate as I began developing a more ...
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What I got wrong: GMO skeptic turned crop biotech advocate explains his ‘slow-motion conversion’

Marc Brazeau | 
A recent open-heart surgery put my mind, as it might, on themes relating to mortality. Which got me thinking about ...
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Percy Schmeiser, farmer made famous by legal battle with Monsanto, dies at 89

Daniela Germano | 
Percy Schmeiser, a Saskatchewan farmer who became famous during his legal battle with biotech giant Monsanto, has died. John Schmeiser ...
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‘Percy’ director defends anti-Monsanto film against charges of inaccuracy from farmers

Victoria Ahearn | 
The director of a new film about a Saskatchewan grain farmer’s legal fight with biotech giant Monsanto says the drama ...
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Podcast: GM crops don’t change your DNA; Monsanto ‘owns’ global food supply? South American anti-biotech invasion

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Are GM crops unnatural? Can they change your DNA? And does 'Big Ag' own the global food supply? The answer ...
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Podcast: Monsanto v Percy Schmeiser; Experts spread misinformation, too; Fasting a fad diet?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Just-released courtroom drama 'Percy' tells the David vs. Goliath story of a Canadian farmer's battle against Monsanto. Did the film ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-Monsanto film ‘Percy’ promotes public confusion about crop biotech

Percy Schmeiser, a farmer from [Saskatchewan, Canada], has the real-life role of David in the movie adaptation of a reality ...
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Democratic strategists urge Joe Biden to take on Monsanto to win rural support

Liz Crampton | 
The Biden campaign wants to undercut President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory across rural America in 2016 by making its case ...
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Podcast: Bill Nye The Science Guy explains his transition from GMO skeptic to advocate

Amy Pedulla, Bill Nye | 
Back in 2014, Bill Nye The Science Guy was skeptical of genetically modified foods, or GMOs. It raised some eyebrows ...
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Viewpoint: GMOs a ‘corporate plot’ to control the food supply, and 9 other biotech myths, debunked

GMO stands for “genetically modified organism.” It most commonly refers to organisms—often plants—that have been modified to achieve desired traits, ...
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Did Monsanto wrongly sue this farmer for accidentally growing patented GMO canola?

Trent Horne | 
Often, the first thing I hear is “isn’t that the case where someone got sued because seed blew onto his ...
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Viewpoint: Crop biotech innovation isn’t enough to shut down the anti-GMO propaganda machine

Judith Heimann | 
Scientists need to promote and defend the relevance of their science, even after it has left their lab ...
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Talking Biotech: Where did GMOs come from? Former Monsanto scientist Robb Fraley recounts the advent of biotech crops

Kevin Folta, Robb Fraley | 
On the five-year anniversary of the Talking Biotech podcast, host and plant geneticist Kevin Folta sits down with former Monsanto ...
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Unless you eat 10 pounds of oatmeal daily, glyphosate in your cereal isn’t dangerous

Diane Karr | 
Is there glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup herbicide, hiding in your cereal? Even if there is, there’s some reliable ...
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Farmers scramble to find herbicide alternatives after court overturns EPA dicamba weedkiller approval

Emily Unglesbee | 
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued a decision [June 3] vacating the registrations of three dicamba ...
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Appeals court overturns EPA approval of drift-prone weedkiller dicamba, citing ‘substantially understated’ risks

Carey Gillam | 
In a stunning rebuke of the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court on [June 3] overturned the agency’s approval of ...
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