Agricultural Regs & Ethics
AUDIO: Yale neurologist Steven Novella challenges fears of GMOs, industrial agriculture
For Medium's Inquiring Minds, Indre Viskontas spoke with Dr. Steven Novella, a neurologist at Yale University. Novella is a prominent voice ...
Italian farmer crusades for GMO corn cultivation, faces opposition from anti-GMO activists and government
“This stuff, with the same light, water and fertilizer, produces 10 times more than the other kind,” says farmer Giorgio ...
Vitamin enrichment focus of Philippines GM development initiatives
Scientists in the Philippines are focusing on biotechnology to improve agricultural productivity, promote food security and sustainable development. Dr. Antonio Alfonso, ...
Fear of GMOs prevent GM barley resistant to ‘vomitoxin’-producing fungi from reaching beers
This past summer, exceptionally hot and humid for many, was brutal for the small-scale barley farmers who have been cropping ...
Anne Glover, Europe’s chief science adviser faces anti-GMO, anti-tech politics
The European Commission's chief science adviser said publicly that politics impedes her ability to give unbiased advice to European policy ...
Oregon GMO bans go against principles of organic farming, could hurt organic industry
The vote in Jackson County, Ore., to ban genetically modified organisms marks a huge setback for the organic community across ...
Hawaii island GMO ban threatens future of university-based independent research
Hawaii County set itself apart from much of the rest of the state in December by effectively banning the large ...
Bt cotton huge success in India defies anti-GMO conspiracy theories
In disputes around Bt cotton, a “triumph narrative” is alleged to have emerged from researchers - mainly economists - catering ...
Washington Post joins liberal pubs endorsing GMO safety, role feeding hungry, rejecting labels
Over the past year, the editorial boards of a number of major liberal US publications have endorsed the safety of ...
Marsh v Baxter case tested organic certification standards in Western Australia and showed they must change
A biotechnology scientist says organic certification bodies need to relax their rules and be “more realistic” about the presence of ...
Zimbabweans have consumed GMOs safely for a decade, contrary to minister’s claims
A few days ago, NewZimbabwe.com published an article entitled "GMOs remain banned in Zim, Made" in which the Agriculture, Mechanisation ...
Public mislead about organics: GM and conventional food as safe, healthy, nutritious
The verdict in the Australia courts rejecting the claim of an organic farmer than his GM-farming neighbor was "contaminating" his ...
Marvel’s X-Men fan? Then you should appreciate ‘special powers’ of ‘mutant’ GM crops
From the origins of their 'special powers' to GMO labeling and mutant registration, the parallels between the debate over GMOs ...
Western Australia court ruling highlights need for law reform to include ‘biotrespass’
The supreme court of Western Australia handed down a landmark decision yesterday, on genetically modified crop liability. The ruling in Marsh ...
Turkish government denies changing regulations to permit sale of food products containing up to 0.9 percent GM ingredients
A change made to the Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Animal Husbandry regulations now permits the production and sale of ...
Vermont’s GMO-labeling bill success was not about ‘right-to-know’ but clear vote against conventional agriculture
The incredible success of the GMO labeling bill was in actuality not about the “right to know” what is in ...
GMO opposition is fierce, but not much of it based on science
A more sober assessment of the public GMO debate reveals that it's not really about the science of the safety ...
Cultural divide deepens in Oregon as GMO bans signal Portlandia-fication of farming
Jackson county's new ban on most GMO crops has deepened a cultural chasm in the greater Rogue Valley and Oregon ...
Western Australian farmer Michael Baxter’s win a big step forward for co-existence between organic, GM crops
The Western Australia Supreme Court’s decision to award Kojonup GM canola farmer Michael Baxter victory over his organic farming neighbour ...
3000 rice genomes released into public domain to boost food production
As a step toward boosting rice production to meet a projected 25 percent increase in demand by 2030, researchers from three Asian ...
Congressional briefing raises concerns about new GMO crops with 2,4-D herbicide resistance
The next argument over genetically engineered crops has arrived with Dow AgroScience’s bid to gain federal approval for soybean and ...
Fear sells and Academics Review uses it too in misleading attack on organic marketing
Academics Review recently released a searing attack on the organic industry, claiming it has gained market share by promoting fear ...
Role of biotechnology in global food security cannot be dismissed for ideological reasons
Biotechnology sceptics have a right to question the role of biotechnology in global food security. But they are wrong to ignore ...
GMO ban organizers in Jackson, Oregon now pushing for broader labeling measure
Many said our victory was impossible. They said the out-of-state chemical corporations would use their money to twist the truth ...
In landmark case, Australian court rejects organic farmer’s claim of GMO “contamination”
Western Australian Supreme Court Justice ruled that organic farmer Steve Marsh lost his organic certification because of the Australian organic ...
GMOs safe but food producers not educating consumers on benefits
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are the future of the world’s food supply. But America’s GMO producers — including growers in ...
Australia: Verdict due in landmark legal battle over GM “contamination” of organic farms
Justice Kenneth James Martin is set to hand down a verdict this Wednesday - 2pm Perth time - in the ...
