Agricultural Regs & Ethics
China GMO-Leukemia link debunked: How anti-GMOers scaremonger, twisting facts, manipulate Internet
The anti-GMO believers have learned that the constant release of tenuous, unconfirmed, even fake, information is critical to their misinformation ...
China GM revolution in low gear as anti-GMO activists spread ‘paranoia’ about infertility, safety
One of China’s major genetically modified food projects is now to all intents and purposes dead and buried. The expiry on ...
Liberal mag Nation on food fight: GMOs can provide sustainable food
In about 40 years, relentless dry spells may be more frequent across the Southwest, say climate scientists, and California may have ...
Should GMOs be grown in national wildlife refuges?
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service did a huge disservice to science, wildlife and modern agriculture last month, when it ...
What’s the future of Hawaii anti-GMO legislation in wake of rejection of Kaua’i ban?
A federal judge has struck down Kauai County’s ordinance requiring more disclosure from biotechnology companies about pesticide use and genetically ...
Speciation may be possible without geographic division
German researcher Christian Rabeling was digging up ant colonies on a college campus in Brazil when he found something unexpected—certain ...
Why liberals are embracing GMOs and rejecting mandatory labeling
Polls show that support for GMOs is weakest among those who call themselves liberals. But slowly that's begun to change ...
Why Vandana Shiva is so right and yet so wrong
Romantic environmentalists tend to get the big-picture problems right, while fudging the details. Rationalists nail the details, but sometimes become ...
Marxist Counterpunch calls Specter New Yorker Shiva profile ‘meretricious hatchet job’
Perhaps nothing symbolizes the decline of the New Yorker magazine more than the hatchet job on Vandana Shiva that appears in the latest ...
Monsanto likely to appeal Mexican ruling blocking GMO soy planting
A small group of beekeepers in Mexico has inflicted a blow on biotech giant Monsanto, which has halted the company’s ...
Meet Brett Begemann, the ‘evil wizard’ behind Monsanto
Before you can finish typing "Monsanto employees" into Google, the search engine suggests "Monsanto evil." The world's largest-grossing seed seller ranks between one ...
Who is Vandana Shiva and why is she saying such awful things about GMOs?
Vandana Shiva's status as a celebrity anti-GMO activist is not in question, but virtually everything else about her, from her ...
Tasmanian farmers group responds to government’s GMO ban, wants discussion
The Tasmanian Farmers and Growers Association responded this week to the State government’s continuation of the moratorium on the use ...
Hawaii’s anti-GMO SHAKA movement not disclosing campaign donations
While the issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture has been a highly charged political issue in Hawaii for ...
Editorial: GMO labels ‘make sense’ for Colorado’s concerned consumers
On Wednesday, a proposition over the labeling of genetically modified foods in Colorado was approved for the November ballot. Backers of ...
Vietnam likely to approve commercial growing of GM crops
Vietnam has approved the importation of several genetically-modified (GM) corn varieties and left it to the environment ministry to decide ...
Zimbabwe imports almost 121,000 tons of GM maize illegally
Zimbabwe imported nearly 121 000 metric tonnes of genetically modified (GM) maize from Saouth Africa between February and July this ...
China decides against renewing GM permits, raises questions about future for research
China’s Ministry of Agriculture has decided not to renew biosafety certificates that allowed research groups to grow genetically modified (GM) ...
GMO labeling on November ballot in Colorado
A proposition seeking the labeling of foods containing genetically modified organisms will be on the November ballot, the Colorado Secretary ...
I’m more afraid of my kids’ genomic data NOT being sequenced than how it might be misused
The era of precision genomics is upon us, and as with GMO foods, that scares some people. But not GLP ...
Anti-GMO ‘paranoia’ hindering China’s progress towards food security
One of China’s major genetically modified food projects is now to all intents and purposes dead and buried. The expiry on ...
Inside look at growing Bt cotton with Indian farmer
Is Bt cotton good or bad? But this type of question might confuse matters more than illuminate them. A better question might ...
Tasmania extends long-standing GMO ban to 2019
Tasmania agriculture is set to remain free of genetically modified organisms for at least five more years, with the State ...
Genetic explanation for short stature in humans
It's not another tall tale: Evolutionary biologists have developed a new understanding of the genetic basis of short stature in ...
Diet wars: ‘Caveman diet’ is all the rage, but ignores what our ancient ancestors really ate
Before the advances that made agriculture possible, humans ate solely what they could hunt and gather, which varied wildly depending ...
First four GM corn varieties approved in Vietnam
The Vietnamese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) granted licenses to four GM corn varieties, including Bt 11 and ...
Safety certificates for Chinese GM crops expire, with no sign of renewal
Safety certificates for the only homegrown experimental genetically modified staple food crops to have the credentials expired yesterday, with no ...
