Agricultural Regs & Ethics
Facing billions more in potential settlements, Bayer holds to its legal strategy
Bayer is sticking to its legal strategy of trying individual Roundup cases in court, even as a series of recent ...
Relief to resilience: Bangladesh’s remarkable journey in biotechnology
In agricultural biotechnology, Bangladesh stands as a symbol of progress and innovation. Over the years, this South Asian nation has ...
Meat lobby restricting innovation? Florida legislature to take up cell based meat ban in the wake of Italy’s vote to restrict cultured meats
The Italian government has voted to ban cultured meat being produced or sold in the country, which could complicate the ...
Reckoning for European Green Deal ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy: EU lawmakers side with farmers and consumers, bury plan to cut chemical pesticide use by 50%
In a stunning upset, the European Parliament voted down the "Sustainable Use of Pesticides" bill, which marked the cornerstone of ...
Cell-based, lab grown food banned in Italy
Italy's lower house of parliament gave final approval for a law banning the use of laboratory-produced food and animal feed ...
Viewpoint: Sri Lanka 2.0? Misinformation on GM corn exacerbates Mexico-Canada-US trade dispute
Counseled by a cadre of discredited anti-biotechnology activists, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador now claims health and safety concerns ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how zealous environmental groups dupe politicians about the ‘widespread dangers’ of many safe and effective pesticides
Pesticides used in agriculture have long been the subject of controversy and misinformation – and the attention of regulators. Since ...
‘No woman has grown a beard because of GMOs’: Kenyan president William Ruto challenges hysteria claiming biotech crops cause health problems
“I haven’t grown breasts despite taking Genetically Modified food. No woman has grown beards because of consuming GMOs.” ...
What’s next for Bayer after losing $1.56 billion Roundup glyphosate case?
Bayer AG suffered its biggest drop ever, losing about €7.6 billion ($8.3 billion) in market value, after major legal and ...
Facing food security threats, Ghana makes 4-year commitment to promoting research and development on genetically modified crops
The designation of Ghana as the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) collaborating center for Africa, focusing on plant breeding and ...
Glyphosate reauthorized for 10 years by divided EU
[November 16] the European Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (PAFF committee) was again unable to get a ...
Can a company trademark ‘eco-friendly’ branding?
A decision over a sustainability-centric trademark in Argentina provides one of the latest looks at how trademark offices and courts ...
Analysis: Do neonicotinoid and glyphosate pesticides threaten bees? A reassessment
"The honeybee is in no way endangered. If there’s a top ten list of what’s killing honey bee colonies, I’d ...
Why China’s aggressive GM crop approvals represent real great leap forward in food security
China is getting close to commercially producing a variety of genetically modified crops and that is good news for Canadian ...
Viewpoint: ‘So-called environmentalists can eat crow, transgenic corn proves a win for science and the public’
In 2020, storms caused an estimated $12 billion in damage, including in Iowa, where a giant amount of America's corn ...
GLP podcast/video: Many Americans still reject evolution; should we worry? Top-10 food myths, debunked; Farmers finally growing Golden Rice
The creation-evolution debate has fallen out of the spotlight in recent years, but many Americans still reject Darwin's theory. Should ...
Viewpoint: Anti-glyphosate rabbit hole — Will the ethically-compromised International Agency for Cancer (IARC) lead Europe to embrace a scientifically-challenged Green Deal?
What chemicals or environmental exposures are likely to cause cancer? That’s a complex question with a wide variance in views ...
Autism increase mystery solved? No, it’s not vaccines, GMOs, glyphosate—or organic foods
A change in how we diagnose and report autism and not vaccines, glyphosate or chemtrails is the prime mover as ...
Viewpoint: Dark money and tort-lawyer-funded Environmental Working Group (EWG) launches new campaign to scare public about ‘dangerous’ pesticide spraying near schools
On Nov. 2, the EWG (the same folks behind The Dirty Dozen) launched an interactive map created to demonstrate just how ...
Argentina on cusp of releasing first genetically modified non-browning potato in Latin America
Scientists from the National Institute of Agricultural Technology - INTA of Argentina, the public entity in charge of carrying out ...
Viewpoint: If the EU insists on food labeling, organics, not gene edited foods, should be at top of list on safety grounds
The UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has followed the science in recommending a streamlined approach to regulating gene edited food ...
Viewpoint: Mexico’s GM crop import ban creates dire legal and trade consequences
In December 2020, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), issued a decree banning genetically modified (GM) corn for human consumption. Mexico ...
What may delay or derail the European Union’s proposed deregulation of gene-edited crops? Is there room for compromise with organic opponents?
The July proposal by the European Commission, which is the Executive arm of the European Union, to significantly liberalize not ...
Viewpoint: UK’s Royal Society advances agro-biotechnology regulatory reforms to stir innovation and reduce influence of large seed companies
The UK needs an evidence-led and proportionate regulatory approach for genetically modified (GM) crops to realise the technology’s benefits for ...
Farmers and seed producers welcome science-based reform to EU gene editing rules
At a Euractiv media event to mark the launch of the Breakthrough Institute/Alliance for Science’s new report on ‘new genomic techniques,’ ...
Analysis: Europe’s proposed new gene editing regulations are more convoluted and burdensome than plant scientists had hoped for
In 2018, after a ruling of the European Court of Justice put the latest breeding methods under the burdensome EU ...
37% yield increase: Almost all monetary gains from Indian GMO mustard will go to farmers, not to seed companies
Huge gains from biotech cotton commercialized [in India] two decades back notwithstanding, policymaking came to a standstill in terms of ...