Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Audio: Keith Kloor discusses NaturalNews’ Mike Adams’ call to arms against biotech supporters
Mike Adams, the self-proclaimed "Health Ranger" of NaturalNews.com recently portrayed biotech supporters as "Nazi collaborators" and suggested that extreme actions ...
Unapproved GM rice for sale discovered in Chinese supermarkets
An investigative report by China's state broadcaster Central China Television recently exposed the illegal sales of unapproved genetically modified rice ...
Univ of Hawaii reviews environmental impacts of GM crops
RoundUp Ready® (RR) crops and other herbicide-resistant GM crops have increased the use of no-till agriculture, which conserves topsoil and ...
Neil deGrasse Tyson defends pro stance on GMOs following video
This brief clip of me was posted by somebody: Everything I said is factual. So there's nothing to disagree with ...
Interactive Map: Bangladesh farmers’ dramatic success with pesticide-reducing Bt brinjal
A new interactive map published by partners of Bangladesh's Bt brinjal project, the first GMO food crop grown in South ...
Public fears stall approval of GM crops for commercial planting in China
Despite recent research advances, such as a new strain of wheat that resists destructive mildew, commercial planting of genetically modified food ...
Kansas tea partier finds common cause with liberals on GMO labeling
Todd Tiahrt is a proud former member of the House tea party caucus. He claims to have a “100 percent pro-life ...
‘Level playing field’ needed for biotech in agriculture
The use of biotechnology is big within the health industry, the area of industrial envrionment and agriculture, but while it ...
India should not rush to decide on GM crops without rational public debate
The public debates on GM began with the unannounced entry of Bt cotton in Gujarat, where the farmers had grown 21,000 acres ...
GM corn no longer resistant to tropical pests in Brazil
Genetically modified corn seeds are no longer protecting Brazilian farmers from voracious tropical bugs, increasing costs as producers turn to ...
‘All hell will break loose’ for Molokai if proposed GMO ban on Maui passes
If you’re looking for an entertaining way to spend your day, a trip to hear testimony given to the Maui ...
NaturalNews’ Mike Adams’ genocidal views on GMOs mainstream among environmental activists
NaturalNews founder and editor Mike Adams is known for his extremist views on GMOs, the latest being his threats to ...
Can we regulate gene editing without killing it?
CRISPR and other gene-editing methods, plus gene drives, are suddenly here and now. They offer unprecedented possibilities for genetic modification ...
Sweet corn roadside taste-off: Customers learned, sampled and chose GE over conventional
GM foods are disparaged by some critics because they allegedly promote 'industrial agriculture,' such as growing grains for animals or ...
Chinese researchers edit genes to make fungal-resistant wheat
Advanced genome-editing techniques have been used to create a strain of wheat resistant to a destructive fungal pathogen—called powdery mildew—that ...
Term ‘genetic modification’ loaded with baggage, undermining rational debate
With food security firmly on the international agenda, there's a growing appetite to look again at the opportunities promised by ...
Anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva has long history of rejecting science
Vandana Shiva is a chain reaction that cannot be stopped. It can only be witnessed from a safe distance. The ...
GM critic says biotech proponents perpetuate African dependency and poverty
The recent article, GM scaremongering in Africa is disarming the fight against poverty, published in the Guardian’s PovertyMatters Blog on ...
Can scientists save the declining New England cottontail from extinction?
Scientists with the NH Agricultural Experiment Station are working to restore New Hampshire and Maine's only native rabbit after new ...
Africa ‘missed out’ on Green Revolution, needs ‘growth spark’ from biotech
Sub-Saharan Africa's agricultural sector needs to harvest the fruits of biotechnology in order to establish sustainable development, says a report. A ...
Promise of CRISPR gene editing–and the challenges
Two papers published in the last week were signal events for agricultural genomics. First was the draft of the huge, and ...
Anti-biotech Center for Genetics and Society exaggerates dangers of gene editing technology
A healthy public debate is emerging over the revolutionary new genetic engineering tool known as CRISPR. Challenging anti-GMO dogma, it's ...
FBI turns up heat on Mike Adams as ‘Health Ranger’ fiasco widens, plus Adams’ archive
Mike Adams, who advocates the murder of those who believe GM technology can play a constructive role in food and ...
Do Hawaii counties have authority to regulate GM crops and pesticides?
The question of whether or not counties have the authority to regulate pesticide use and genetically engineered crops was at ...
2014 World Food Prize recipient: ‘Shameful’ if India lets biotech pass
Dr Sanjaya Rajaram often remembers that his mentor, Nobel Peace prize winner Dr Norman Borlaug, always said: “Peace does not ...
European scientists call for GMO legislation revamp to prevent stifling genome editing
Genome editing, a powerful technology that allows researchers to make minute changes to crops with pinpoint accuracy, could be stifled ...
Mike Adams claims Monsanto set up “kill GMO supporters” website, as scientists, journalists face death threats
Knight Science Journalism's Paul Raeburn has weighed in on the increasingly sordid Mike Adams fiasco. He writes: An anti-GMO activist ...
