Facing billions more in potential settlements, Bayer holds to its legal strategy

Facing billions more in potential settlements, Bayer holds to its legal strategy

Steve Davies | 
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

Relief to resilience: Bangladesh’s remarkable journey in biotechnology

Shomia Nahar Nanchi | 
In agricultural biotechnology, Bangladesh stands as a symbol of progress and innovation. Over the years, this South Asian nation has ...
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Meat lobby restricting innovation? Florida legislature to take up cell based meat ban in the wake of Italy’s vote to restrict cultured meats

Gaynor Selby | 
The Italian government has voted to ban cultured meat being produced or sold in the country, which could complicate the ...
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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%

Bill Wirtz | 
In a stunning upset, the European Parliament voted down the "Sustainable Use of Pesticides" bill, which marked the cornerstone of ...
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Cell-based, lab grown food banned in Italy

Angelo Amante | 
Italy's lower house of parliament gave final approval for a law banning the use of laboratory-produced food and animal feed ...
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Viewpoint: Sri Lanka 2.0? Misinformation on GM corn exacerbates Mexico-Canada-US trade dispute

Rob Wager | 
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

Viewpoint: Here’s how zealous environmental groups dupe politicians about the ‘widespread dangers’ of many safe and effective pesticides

Henry Miller | 
Pesticides used in agriculture have long been the subject of controversy and misinformation – and the attention of regulators. Since ...
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‘No woman has grown a beard because of GMOs’: Kenyan president William Ruto challenges hysteria claiming biotech crops cause health problems

Fred Kagonye, Kamau Muthoni | 
“I haven’t grown breasts despite taking Genetically Modified food. No woman has grown beards because of consuming GMOs.” ...
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What’s next for Bayer after losing $1.56 billion Roundup glyphosate case?

Tim Loh | 
Bayer AG suffered its biggest drop ever, losing about €7.6 billion ($8.3 billion) in market value, after major legal and ...
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Facing food security threats, Ghana makes 4-year commitment to promoting research and development on genetically modified crops

Bonface Orucho | 
The designation of Ghana as the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) collaborating center for Africa, focusing on plant breeding and ...
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Glyphosate reauthorized for 10 years by divided EU

David Zaruk | 
[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?

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 ...
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Analysis: Do neonicotinoid and glyphosate pesticides threaten bees? A reassessment

Jon Entine | 
"The honeybee is in no way endangered. If there’s a top ten list of what’s killing honey bee colonies, I’d ...
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Why China’s aggressive GM crop approvals represent real great leap forward in food security

Sean Pratt | 
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’

Viewpoint: ‘So-called environmentalists can eat crow, transgenic corn proves a win for science and the public’

Hank Campbell | 
In 2020, storms caused an estimated $12 billion in damage, including in Iowa, where a giant amount of America's corn ...
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GLP podcast/video: Many Americans still reject evolution; should we worry? Top-10 food myths, debunked; Farmers finally growing Golden Rice

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
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?

Viewpoint: Anti-glyphosate rabbit hole — Will the ethically-compromised International Agency for Cancer (IARC) lead Europe to embrace a scientifically-challenged Green Deal?

Chandre Dharma-wardana | 
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

Autism increase mystery solved? No, it’s not vaccines, GMOs, glyphosate—or organic foods

Arvind Suresh | 
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

Viewpoint: Dark money and tort-lawyer-funded Environmental Working Group (EWG) launches new campaign to scare public about ‘dangerous’ pesticide spraying near schools

Amanda Zaluckyj | 
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

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 ...
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Viewpoint: If the EU insists on food labeling, organics, not gene edited foods, should be at top of list on safety grounds

Daniel Pearsall, Matt Ridley | 
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

Viewpoint: Mexico’s GM crop import ban creates dire legal and trade consequences

Gabriella Beaumont‐​Smith | 
In December 2020, Mexico’s President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), issued a decree banning genetically modified (GM) corn for human consumption. Mexico ...
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What may delay or derail the European Union’s proposed deregulation of gene-edited crops? Is there room for compromise with organic opponents?

Steven Cerier | 
The July proposal by the European Commission, which is the Executive arm of the European Union, to significantly liberalize not ...
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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 ...
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Farmers and seed producers welcome science-based reform to EU gene editing rules

Mark Lynas | 
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

Analysis: Europe’s proposed new gene editing regulations are more convoluted and burdensome than plant scientists had hoped for

Petra Jorasch | 
In 2018, after a ruling of the European Court of Justice put the latest breeding methods under the burdensome EU ...
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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 ...
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