Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Activists play Agent Orange scare card in hopes of derailing USDA approval of 2,4-D resistant corn and soybeans
Agent orange GMO? New genetically modified corn and soybean seeds, already approved in Canada for rollout this year, are closer ...
More myths dispelled about GMOs creating food allergies
Kevin Bonham, a Scientific American blogger and graduate student working on a PhD in the Immunology Program at Harvard, where ...
Video: China faces political dilemma regarding GM drought resistant rice tested as safe
A number of leading scientists in China are preparing a proposal for the State Council to approve the commercial production ...
Nepalese activist official launches anti-GMO volley
Binyod Acharya, an official with a National Tea and Coffee Development Board in Nepal, launched a broadside against GMOs, accusing ...
Napa Valley may push for GMO labels
While California voters rejected a ballot initiative that would label foods containing genetically modified organisms just over a year ago, ...
Future pharma: Led by US scientists, glow-in-the-dark pigs bred in China
Pigs engineered with jellyfish DNA to emit a greenish glow in ultraviolet light are a key step in developing effective, ...
Indy Hawaii study downplays atrazine dangers, shows flaws in Kaua’i bill
Last year, the Kaua'i County Council passed BIll 2491, legislation designed to restrict genetically modified crops while also targeting some ...
Big Ag response to critics: Don’t let misinformation define you
There’s a lot of conversation about traditional agriculture recently, and much of it is critical. Think stories about genetically modified ...
Ecologist amps anti-Golden Rice campaign
The Ecologist, the once-venerable UK environmental magazine, has launched another salvo in its campaign against Golden Rice. The vitamin A ...
Northeastern states important GMO labeling battleground in 2014
In 2013, 26 states took up the issue of GMO labeling. Advocates are now eyeing Vermont and other Northeastern states ...
Arctic Apples new front line for ethical attacks against GMOs
Controversy over GMO apples could open biotechnology to broadside attacks from opponents, despite the fact that they represent only a ...
Irish potato farmers, facing blight scare, look to GMOs but EU turns blind eye
GM is important for Ireland. The country's staple pototao crop is being threatened. Farmers typically spray 10-20 times against blight; ...
UK Guardian botched ‘suicide gene’ story: ‘Terminator seeds’ will not usher in agricultural judgment day
UK Guardian botched its story on "terminator" seeds in Brazil, fanning misconceptions, undermining vaccine and drug research ...
Genetically modified crops key to India’s food security
India's population will grow to 1.3 billion by 2017, so current agricultural output needs to be doubled against odds like ...
China GMO trade war: Distillers corn grain caught in crossfire, rejected
China has turned away about 2,000 tons of U.S. dried distillers grain (DDG), a corn by-product, and more rejections are ...
In hyped claim organic milk is healthier, activist science meets bungled reporting
Last week, the web erupted after organic researcher Charles Benbrook promoted a new study as the long-awaited proof of the ...
Resolution in Kauai anti-GMO bill calls for ‘sketchy’ GMO safety assessment
A resolution in Kauai’s Bill 2491--which heavily restricts the use of GM crops and pesticides--calls for a “neutral facilitator” to convene ...
Evidence to support Don Huber’s claim of hidden glyphosate-GMO dangers still missing
It’s been almost three years since retired Purdue University Professor Don Huber sent an alarming letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom ...
GMOs will not affect Uganda’s ‘organic crops’
GM cassava, matooke, and sweet potatoes being developed in Uganda are not organic export crops for Europe but locally consumed ...
Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse calls campaign against GM crops ‘anti-science’ and ‘irresponsible’
Nobel Laureate cell biologist Sir Paul Nurse has termed the campaign against GM foods "irresponsible,” calling the whole debate against ...
Organic labeling: Is there a place for GM foods?
For more than a decade, organic farmers, ranchers and food processors have been subject to rigorous annual inspections to ensure ...
Podcast: Part II of organic grower Jack’s Farm Radio interview with GLP’s Jon Entine
In Part II of Dan Heckler's interview with GLP’s Jon Entine, the discussion turns to environmental sustainability and claims by ...
Block party: Are activists thwarting GMO innovation?
Is there evidence that groups fighting against genetically modified food have thwarted good technologies that would otherwise make agriculture more ...
Field trials of GM oranges show promise in the fight against citrus-greening
Field trials of oranges genetically modified to contain a gene found in spinach are showing promise in resisting citrus greening—a ...
EU Commission renews bid to ban food from cloned animals
The European Commission again proposed a ban on food and products from cloned animals, two years after rejecting a similar ...
MIT Technology Review makes ‘green’ argument for genetically modified food
Advances in genetic engineering have opened doors for scientists to tackle some of the biggest threats to agriculture in a ...
Monsanto has no influence on research by its fellowship recipients
Anti-GMO activists claim that research funded by Monsanto is biased, but no one has ever asked a Monsanto-funded researcher what ...
