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Vermont pro-GMO labeling groups play Monsanto ‘fear card’ in deceptive fund-raising effort

Layla Katiraee | 
If the Internet is your source of record, and the Vermont labeling debate is on your radar, you might think ...
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Rust threatening wheat crops worldwide could be thwarted with genetics, but anti-GMO fervor remains challenge

XiaoZhi Lim | 
Scientists worldwide are racing to develop rust-resistant wheat varieties before wheat crops worldwide succumb to the deadly disease, wheat rust ...

Superchicken? Researchers turn to genetics to breed global warming tolerant fowls

Eric Roston | 
For all the concern about how climate change may affect people in cities, people in cars, people and their flood ...
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Avoid ‘failed’ GM crop approach to combat ‘superweeds’

Neil Hamilton | 
Donnelle Eller's eye-opening article on glyphosate-resistant Superweeds details a real threat to Iowa agriculture and raises important questions about responsibility and ...

How GM foods are determined safe to eat in Australia

Ashley Ng | 
Foods produced using gene technology are prohibited from sale in Australia and New Zealand unless they have undergone strenuous pre-market ...
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Audio: Ray Bowman interviews Bruce Chassy and GLP’s Jon Entine on republished Seralini GMO study

Bruce Chassy, Jon Entine | 
Appearing on Ray Bowman's Food and Farm radio show, GLP's Jon Entine and professor emeritus of food science and human ...

Proposed Maui GMO ban would shut farms, spike unemployment, cost millions

Anita Hofschneider | 
Hawaii’s rising movement against genetically modified farming has seen successes in Kauai County and Hawaii County, but the latest proposal ...

New generation of eco-friendly, more healthful genetically modified crops

Sarah Burke | 
Most of us who are advocates for sustainable agriculture have a negative view of GMO’s, and with good reason – they ...
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Campaign launched to discredit Bill Gates backed vitamin A-enriched GMO banana

Bernie Mooney | 
The latest nonsense emanating from the Anti camp is this from our friends at GMOFreeUSA: “GMO proponents claim that they ...
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Herbicide-resistant crops can exacerbate ‘superweeds’ but new GM versions can help control problem

XiaoZhi Lim | 
The growing problem of herbicide-resistant weeds has weed scientists and regulators pushing for more solutions to tackle the problem, including ...

Larry King’s celebrity “experts” on GMOs were just uninformed consumers

Katie Pratt | 
Ensuring Skype worked properly sent my anxiety levels through the roof, even more so than facing off with Larry King ...
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Science ‘court’ to rule on ‘facts’ in contentious GMO debate

David Ropeik | 
When the assessment of scientific facts becomes distorted with emotion as in the heated GMO debate, we may need to ...

Hollywood actress Zoe Lister-Jones to star in anti-GMO movie

Borys Kit | 
Zoe Lister-Jones and Daryl Wein, the couple behind the 2012 comedy Lola Versus, are in production on their follow-up, a ...

Saskatchewan 4th-generation wheat farmer calls for access to biotechnology

Gerrid Gust | 
I’m a fourth-generation wheat farmer in Saskatchewan—and one of my longterm goals is to make sure the fifth generation on my ...

Zimbabwe would gain from engaging in debate, rather than seeking GM food ban

Maxwell Gomera | 
Food, politics and health have once again come together in a media-friendly cocktail. Two thought-pieces with opposing views on Genetically ...

Republication of Séralini GM corn study does not sway critical scientists

Barbara Casassus | 
A controversial paper linking genetically modified maize to the development of tumours in rats, which was published in 2012 and ...

Costco scares consumers about GM, yet most of its products contain GMOs

Alex Berezow | 
Last week, just days after I wrote a very critical article skewering Whole Foods for lying to all of its customers about ...

Pesticide exposure during pregnancy may increase risk of autism

Edward Ortiz | 
Pregnant women who live near areas where agricultural pesticides are applied experience a higher risk of delivering children with autism ...
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Scientists react to republished Séralini GMO maize rat study

The GLP posts a collection of the responses from scientists worldwide to the republication of a controversial animal study on ...
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Republished retracted Séralini GMO corn rat study faces harsh criticism from scientists

Jon Entine | 
The new Séralini rat corn study looks a lot like the old retracted one. According to independent scientists who have ...

NGOs attack Cornell University as ‘hub of blind GMO promotion’ in India

With the NGOs raising a question whether the Intelligence Bureau is being used by foreign hands to take over India's ...
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View from Quebec organic farm: Don’t knock our science-based technologically advanced methods

Rob Wallbridge | 
Julie Borlaug, the daughter of the father of the Green Revolution, Norman Borlaug, recently criticized organic farming as scientifically anachronistic ...
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Future of biofortified foods: Protests block advancement of super bananas and Golden Rice

Kenrick Vezina | 
Can biofortified crops really do any good in the world? Only if both sides of the biotech debate work together ...

Europe warns Kenyan farmers that GM crop exports will not be accepted

Local farmers will find it difficult to export their crops to Europe if they adopt the Genetically Modified (GM) crops, ...

Biotech and chemical companies pour money backing GMO-friendly candidates in Hawaii

Rebekah Wilce | 
Hawaii has become “ground zero” in the controversy over genetically modified crops and pesticides. With the seed crop industry (including ...

India condemns Greenpeace, Vandana Shiva as ‘national security threats’

Dean Nelson | 
India's intelligence agency has targeted an adviser to Prince Charles and British activists in a campaign against Greenpeace and other ...
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In shedding GMOs, Ben & Jerry’s determined to ‘stick a finger’ in Monsanto’s eye

Ben & Jerry's efforts to support GMO labeling and to remove GMOs from their ice cream displeased some loyal customers, ...
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