Viewpoint: Seed patent controversy — ‘Does intellectual property in agriculture really drive up costs for farmers and restrict access?’ Here are the numbers

Viewpoint: Seed patent controversy — ‘Does intellectual property in agriculture really drive up costs for farmers and restrict access?’ Here are the numbers

Peter Button | 
Among the many misconceptions about modern agriculture, perhaps one of the most pervasive surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) ...
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Food security challenged Pakistan reevaluating benefits of currently-banned GMO crops

Nida Jaffri | 
For the last two decades, Pakistan has faced several challenges, such as drought, salinity, temperature, climate change, and an increasing ...
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Viewpoint: ‘There are still some people out there screaming about gene edited crops, but that opposition is getting weaker’

Robert Arnason | 
The amount of money and human resources directed at gene edited crops is staggering, says Kevin Folta, a University of ...
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Viewpoint — Part V: ‘Ignominious’, fabricated attacks on GM crops jeopardize Africa’s food security and seed sovereignty

For two years, groups of farmers have been testing the PBR [pod borer resistant]-cowpea; they are thrilled with the product ...
Viewpoint — Part IV: Anti-GM protests spread fear and ultimately protect pet industries while denying Africa opportunities to advance

Viewpoint — Part IV: Anti-GM protests spread fear and ultimately protect pet industries while denying Africa opportunities to advance

The European Union countries are the biggest importer of GM-maize and GM-soybean feed (more than 30 million tons per year); ...
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Viewpoint — Part III: Claimed side-effects of GM crops from GMO corn rebuked by scientists

In their crusade against PBR-Cowpea, anti-GM activists cite articles written by Vendomes et al. (2009)... and an article published by ...
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GLP podcast: Oops — heirloom seed company markets GM tomato; Anti-biotech movement in retreat; Bill Gates does more harm than good?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
An heirloom seed company that prides itself on selling GMO-free products mistakenly put a genetically engineered tomato on the cover ...
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Viewpoint: Part II — Anti-GMO arguments rest entirely on botched studies

GMO food and feed have more than twenty years of safety record. During these twenty years, each day hundreds of ...
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Viewpoint: Part I — Behind the anti-crop biotechnology crusade in Nigeria and across Africa

Before any GM crop is released, it is intensively analysed for human, animal and environment safety. Despite their historical high ...
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Study: Gene editing in medicine is more favorably viewed than in agriculture

A study published in Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology explored U.S. public opinion on gene editing in agricultural and medical fields.  ...
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Viewpoint — Why the non-GMO label is a deceptive farce

Michelle Miller | 
Everyone is able to choose what they want to consume, that’s the good thing about the U.S. food system. There ...
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When a farmer and a dietitian are the same person: Telling stories to counter misinformation about biotechnology

Jennie Schmidt | 
Jennie Schmidt, Third-Generation Maryland Farmer, Registered Dietitian, Member of the Global Farmer Network | March 1, 2024 Highlights: Combining a ...
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Viewpoint: Non-GMO seed company mistakenly listed a seed in its catalogue that had a similar name to a genetically-modified tomato — prompting a bizarre tirade against “Big Ag”

Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company had an intriguing offer in its 2024 catalog: a tomato seed it called Purple Galaxy ...
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s manufactured ‘dangerous levels of chlormequat in oat cereals’ study underscores the ‘risk perception gap’

Andrea Love | 
The number of messages I received from people, mostly parents, who said they had been terrified to feed their children ...
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Viewpoint: Journal Pediatrics reneges on its commitment to print response to botched article claiming GMOs are harmful to children. Here’s what they censored

Kevin Folta | 
A lot has been said about the journal Pediatrics December 2023 Clinical Report on "Using GMOs on Children". The poor scholarship ...
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GLP podcast: Bad research sows distrust in science; Pesticides in food aren’t dangerous—unless you eat 340 apples daily

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Bad research in peer-reviewed journals is undermining the public's trust in science. What can experts do to stop the flow ...
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Viewpoint: Are organizations claimed as “partners” with tort industry-funded Heartland Study aware of the scam? Here’s an ‘open letter’ challenge

Robert Wager et al. | 
Multiple science communicators and scientists have composed a letter to various universities and government organizations that have been linked to ...
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Five reasons why the anti-biotech movement is in retreat

Mark Lynas | 
The pro-science community has recently chalked up several important wins in Europe. First, on January 24, the powerful environment committee ...
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Viewpoint: Money grab — How the Environmental Working Group works hand-in-hand with tort lawyers to generate billion-dollar junk suits

Hank Campbell | 
On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Pumping toxic chemicals onto breakfast tables’ — Nigerian activists claim GMOs are part of Western effort to depopulate African continent

Oyenike Oyeniyi | 
Agriculture stakeholders have warned against the dangers of proliferation of Genetically Modified (GMO) crops in the country ...
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GLP podcast: Technology keeps debunking ‘The Population Bomb;’ Internet access can harm mental health; Is urban farming sustainable? Probably not

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Technological innovations continue to debunk predictions that global population growth will lead to mass starvation. Some mental health experts are ...
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Russia’s shadowy disinformation war against the United States and its allies — Here are some of its key targets  

Henry Miller | 
Russia’s decades-old propaganda machine seeks to damage the health and prosperity of the country's adversaries. Ukraine and the United States ...
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What’s driving the ‘multi-billion dollar fear-and-smear campaign against genetically-engineered crops’ — and the link between activists and Russia?

Henry Miller, Rob Wager | 
Because most of society is between two and six generations removed from farming, to many people that subject is largely ...
Viewpoint: Rejecting hysteria — ‘Alarmism’ over phthalates illustrates importance of embracing established risk measures

Viewpoint: Rejecting hysteria — ‘Alarmism’ over phthalates illustrates importance of embracing established risk measures

Sam Moxon | 
In October, in what could turn into a landmark case, a Missouri woman sued cosmetics company L'Oréal, claiming that her ...
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‘Peach tree grown’ hamburgers? Marjorie Taylor Greene’s incoherent fulminations targeting cell-based meat highlight ignorance of right-wing science rejectionism

Michael Fumento | 
For some reason, a lot of conservatives have a knee-jerk negative reaction to lab-created meat. I checked the writings of ...
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