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Viewpoint: Here’s how genetically engineered fruits and vegetables will soon emerge as a grocery store ‘selling point rather than a scare tactic’

Juergen Eckhardt | 
Fruits and veggies are nature’s gift to humanity. Chock full of vitamins, delicious and colorful, they deserve a starring role ...
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German professor calls country’s organic lobbyists ‘dishonest’ for hyping potential dangers of gene-edited crops

Alfons Deter | 
Up to €50 million has to be invested in an approval process for GM plants, and the smaller plant breeding ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO arguments seem silly after 28 years of false narratives about health harms and and genetic contamination

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO arguments seem silly after 28 years of false narratives about health harms and and genetic contamination

Richard Goodman | 
Since the first genetically engineered or modified crops or organisms (GMO) were approved for commercial production in 1995, no new ...
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Viewpoint: Europe’s trade and agricultural biotech policy is held hostage by environmental activists, hurting farmers and consumers

Alan Beattie | 
Recently, two more shiny new regulatory appliances started to roll off the EU’s legislative assembly line: a due diligence law ...
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GLP podcast: GE crops have lived up to the hype; Growing ‘mini’ organs from stem cells; How do we solve right-wing vaccine hesitancy?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Genetically engineered crops are nearly three decades olds at this point. What impacts have they had on agriculture over those ...
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Viewpoint: Food Network experts blast organic-funded ‘Dirty Dozen’ list for misleading consumers about trace pesticides on crops

Dana Angelo White, Toby Amidor | 
Every year the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases its list of the Dirty Dozen, a group of 12 fruits and vegetables ...
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Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen Deception: No, your fruit and vegetables are not ‘soaked’ with pesticides

Kevin Folta | 
In supermarket conversations (and yes, I do have them) people are scared to death about their fruits and vegetables. I ...
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Viewpoint: Despite a sea of environmental activist disinformation, GMO plants have more than lived up to the hype

Chelsea Gohd | 
There is a great deal of misinformation out there regarding genetically modified organisms (GMOs). From monikers like "Frankenfoods" to general skepticism, there has ...
Viewpoint: Seed patent controversy — ‘Does intellectual property in agriculture drive up costs for farmers and restrict access?’ Here are the numbers

Viewpoint: Seed patent controversy — ‘Does intellectual property in agriculture 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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