Anti-GMO activists have the ‘right to be manipulated’

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The list of supermarkets, companies and restaurants hopping aboard the anti-GMO train keeps growing. Last year Whole Foods and Chipotle ...

GMOs and the skeptics: Will truth win out?

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A social movement revolving around food and health concerns has made GMO labeling a galvanizing issue. The grassroots campaign to ...

How did Monsanto come to be the Devil in the GMO debate?

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Which is the real Monsanto? The one poisoning the world and failing to improve crops with genetically modified seeds, or ...

Anti-biotech backlash attempts to reframe Green Revolution in negative light

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Can we agree that the Green Revolution was, on balance, a good thing? You know, kinda like the industrial revolution. Yes, ...

How anti-GMO activists sell India ‘suicide seeds’ narrative

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Over the past decade, the story of hundreds of thousands of Indian farmers being driven to suicide because of the failure of ...

In GMO French fry debate, conservationists sit on sidelines as ‘mob mentality’ poisons discussion

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Activists who oppose genetic modification have the “advantage” because of the way they frame their arguments, writes Keith Kloor in ...

Anti-GMO ‘zombie myths’: Influential enviro leaders such as Paul Ehrlich spread propaganda

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In his latest blog post, Discover's Keith Kloor addresses the spread of popular anti-GMO myths, such as the supposed rise in ...

Peddlers of disinformation shape GMO discourse

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Influentials are the information brokers that have major media platforms and big receptive audiences. For example, on the GMO issue, ...

Kloor: Critic of pseudoscience = defender of industry?

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If you follow the public debate on genetically modified foods, you know it’s become unhinged from reality. This is because ...

Keith Kloor: The GE labeling debate

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There are two camps that favor labeling genetically modified [GM] foods: 1) The “Right to Know” people, who say they ...

Elle Magazine hops aboard the GMO Fright Train

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As I have previously observed, “the belief that GMO foods are deadly or potentially harmful” has come to dominate the ...

Kloor: Green America takes on GE

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As if the meaning of “natural” wasn’t already overly twisted for ideological and commercial purposes. Check out this campaign recently launched ...

Who’s polarizing the GE debate? Greenpeace

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The following is an edited excerpt. I love this piece in the Guardian about GMOs, I really do. It’s so ...

CNN features outrageous anti-GE views

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The following is an edited excerpt. The latest frightful example of GE fear-mongering aired Monday on CNN. It was a ...

When journalists say really stupid stuff about genetic engineering

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The following is an edited excerpt.  I’ve been arguing that the worst misinformation and myths about genetically modified foods has ...

Anti-biotech activist Jeffrey Smith peddles pseudo-science

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The following is an edited excerpt. When the definitive history of the GMO debate is written, Jeffrey Smith is going ...

Kloor blog deconstructs crop biotech labeling debate

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The following is an edited excerpt. There are two camps that favor labeling genetically modified [GM] foods: 1) The “Right ...
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Nature’s must-read issue on genetically modified organisms

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Keith Kloor dissects and summarizes Nature magazine's special issue on genetically modified organisms ...

If GM crops provide more food, that’s a good thing, right?

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The following is an excerpt.  What drives opposition to genetically modified crops?  Well, there are a bunch of enduring myths, ...

Anti-GMO attitudes on the left and right

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The following is an excerpt. If you follow public debate on genetically modified foods, you know that Monsanto is routinely ...
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Anti-GMO attitudes and political leanings

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GMO opponents come from both ends of the political spectrum, but Kloor writes that denialist arguments are more likely to ...

When newspapers con the public

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The following is an edited excerpt. Now let’s turn to the Guardian, and this video on genetically modified crops it recently posted on ...

A month without Monsanto?

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The following is an edited excerpt. April Dávila, a writer for Yes! magazine, tired to see if she could go one month “without consuming any ...

GMO labeling is clever marketing

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The following is an excerpt. I find it amusing that this whole GMO labeling campaign has been framed as some ...

The real seeds of deception

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The following is an edited excerpt. In October, Dan Charles, NPR’s food and agriculture correspondent, wrote an excellent piece headlined: ...
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Biotechnology: Teaching the controversy?

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Is the American Museum of Natural History helping the public learn about biotechnology in its fine new exhibit on food ...

Why GMOs are great and why they should be labeled

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Earlier this week, I was dismissive of the GMO labeling movement in a way that didn’t do justice to its core concerns. I wrote: Like ...

Does Mark Lynas’s “conversion” represent a turning point in the GM debate?

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Anyone who believes the combustible GM discourse has turned a corner would do well to remember similar pronouncements made about ...
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