Steven Cerier
False dawn or new dawn for genetically engineered crops in the European Union?
It's going to be a long and difficult journey before the fate of the European crop biotechnology reform bill passed ...
Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology opponents are losing their war against genetic engineering but the battle for science is not yet won
It was not so long ago that the strident opponents of agricultural biotechnology were dictating the narrative over sustainable crops ...
Will England emerge as a world innovator in gene-edited crops?
Brexit has been a disaster for the UK. It has not spurred the great economic revival that many of the ...
What may delay or derail the European Union’s proposed deregulation of gene-edited crops? Is there room for compromise with organic opponents?
The July proposal by the European Commission, which is the Executive arm of the European Union, to significantly liberalize not ...
‘Museum of Agriculture’? Could that be the fate of European farming if Greenpeace and other environmental activists succeed in blocking deregulation of crop gene editing?
The war between science and anti-crop biotechnology advocacy groups has escalated since the summer release of the European Commission Report ...
Viewpoint: Anti-agrobiotech activists claim European farmers who support relaxing the EU’s de facto ban on cultivating GMO and gene-edited crops are dupes of Big Ag. Here are the facts
Staunch opponents of the agricultural biotechnology revolution spin a narrative that large agribusiness have strong-armed governments to approve genetically modified ...
Is a split developing between the European organic establishment and the farmers it claims to represent over the regulation of CRISPR and other New Genomic Techniques?
Anti-GE activists spin a narrative that large agribusiness companies have seduced farmers into planting GMO crops where it’s legal, such ...
Cracks appear in Europe’s opposition to CRISPR gene editing and other New Breeding Technologies
Despite what the anti-genetic engineering forces want you to believe, there is growing political, scientific and agricultural support across Europe for ...
Germany is the major obstacle to the adoption of gene editing and other crop biotechnology innovations in the EU. When might that change?
Since 2000, the EU has adopted a very hostile stance towards GMO crops, and it’s carried over into its opposition ...
Why the European Union needs to grow genetically-engineered crops
The United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Israel, Japan, and India are among the growing number of countries that have deregulated ...
How the war in Ukraine has derailed the European Union Farm to Fork initiative — and sparked debate about what constitutes sustainable agriculture
In March 2020, the EU, unveiled its Farm to Fork (F2F) strategy, an ambitious policy designed to reduce agriculture’s carbon ...
How and why gene editing faces fewer global regulations than GMOs
After they were introduced in the mid-1990s, GMO crops were met with a buzzsaw of regulations and skepticism because they ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO advocates are losing ground
The anti-Genetic Engineering movement is on shaky ground because it has let its beliefs blind it to the strong scientific ...
From dairy to meat to seafood, the future of sustainable food is here. Thank you synthetic biology!
The very definition of what food is undergoing a revolution. It will be challenged by beefless beef, porkless pork, fishless fish, ...
Green Revolution 2.0 is unfolding, driven by biotechnology innovation. Here is what you can expect
We are in the early stages of a revolution in food and agriculture that will exceed the tremendous accomplishments of ...
How genetic engineering is creating more nutritious, healthier food and protecting crops from ravaging diseases
Despite the objections and protestations of the anti-GMO advocates who equate genetic engineering with “Frankenfoods” and utilize fear and scare ...
The reinvention of agriculture
Many people still have an outdated notion of what farming entails and are unaware how much it involves high technology ...
Part 2: The hypocrisy of opponents of genetic engineering of food
Logic would dictate that those who are opposed to using gene engineering (GE) in all its forms to grow crops ...
Part 1: The organic food industry’s rejection of modernity
The rapid advance of technology has enriched our daily lives. We can take pictures and videos with a cell phone, ...
Viewpoint: Part 2 — Which developing countries are taking the lead in crop biotechnology innovation?
In Part One of this series, we “set the stage” for the economic reasons for acceptance of GM foods in ...
Viewpoint: Part 1 — Opposition stirred by anti-GMO advocacy group propaganda fading in the developing world, as more countries embrace crop biotechnology
Although acreage under GMO crop cultivation has expanded rapidly worldwide since GMOs first began to be grown in the mid ...
Uganda’s costly dithering on GMOs
Uganda has a very extensive research and confined field-testing program for GMO crops that include disease-resistant potatoes, cassava and bananas, ...
Kenya opens the door to GMO cultivation
On December 19, 2019, the Kenyan government approved the cultivation of GMO cotton after five years of field trials and ...
How genetic engineering will help make fishing more sustainable
After an arduous process that took more than 25 years from time of conception to commercialization, the GMO salmon was ...
Viewpoint: Consumer-focused GM and gene-edited products throw anti-GMO movement’s future into doubt
The bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory that has swept the nation and embedded itself in our political discourse is a prime ...
Viewpoint: AquaBounty’s GM salmon slated for 2021 debut, but animal biotech still stymied by byzantine regulation
After 30 years, AquaBounty's genetically engineered (GE) AquAdvantage salmon may be just months away from hitting US grocery stores, making ...
GMO and gene-edited biofortified crops weaken case for organic agriculture
A new lineup of GMO and gene-edited crops with nutrient content organic growers simply can't replicate ...
Viewpoint: Organic industry’s fear-based case against CRISPR undermines sustainable farming
Welcome to the GMO Debate, part 2 ...
