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Viewpoint: After years of bashing agriculture and GMOs, Chipotle reverses course with ‘Cultivate the Future of Farming’ campaign

Kevin Folta | 
Given Chipotle's past cozy relationship with organic food marketers, this seems more like a marketing stunt ...
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Skeptical meat eaters and complex regulations could slow Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat expansion into China

David Yaffe-Bellany | 
Over the last couple of years, Impossible Foods and its main rival, Beyond Meat, have gone from start-ups with niche ...
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Teaching evolution to college students with creationist views requires innovative approaches

David Warmflash | 
University instructors employ a variety of methods when teaching evolution in classes in which large numbers of students reject the ...
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Pro-GMO documentary ‘Food Evolution’ censored in France?

Gil Rivière Wekstein | 
In a confidential report, the cinematographic distribution company 2iFilms recounts its misadventures concerning the broadcasting of the documentary Food Evolution ...
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Want consumers to embrace CRISPR? Don’t call it a gene-editing ‘revolution,’ explain its agricultural benefits

Charlie Arnot | 
How can you talk to consumers about gene editing when most have little understanding of how plants are bred? The ...
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Podcast: Agricultural economist Stuart Smyth explains the risks and benefits of GMOs and the future of crop biotechnology

Kevin Folta, Stuart Smyth | 
Few academics eagerly engage the public on controversial scientific topics, content to quietly focus on their research. Agricultural economist and ...
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AquaBounty aims to win over consumers before its GMO salmon hits US markets in 2020

Amy Nordrum | 
Only in the past five years has it become possible to raise thousands of healthy fish so far from the ...
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Skepticism of GMOs, CRISPR won’t slow crop biotech innovation, biologist predicts

Daniel Jacobs | 
Genetically modified crops have the potential, if widely adopted, to help feed the world and vastly change the crop input ...
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Neurologist Steven Novella: Greenpeace opposition to Golden Rice approval will be ‘enduring stain’ on activist group’s reputation

Steven Novella | 
[T]he Philippines have just approved Golden Rice as safe for human and animal consumption .... The Philippines is the first ...
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Viewpoint: Confused about GMOs and pesticides? Here’s a science-based handbook for combating anti-biotech fallacies

Stuart Smyth | 
The risk posed by junk science meant to skew our perception of food safety and biotechnology cannot be overstated ...
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Anti-GMO groups in the Philippines launch campaign challenging Golden Rice approval

Renzo Acosta | 
The Magsasaka at Siyentipiko para sa Pag-unlad ng Agrikultura (MASIPAG) condemned [Dec. 19] the approval of the genetically-modified crop [Golden ...
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Public will accept CRISPR if they trust scientists who develop the technology, sociologist says

Carmen Bain | 
As a sociologist who studies food and agriculture, I’m frequently asked whether the public is going to accept gene-edited foods ...
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Podcast: Vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit explains the ‘dos and dont’s’ of battling scientific misinformation

Cameron English, Paul Offit | 
Paul Offit has forged a second career as an influential spokesman for scientific thinking ...
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Consumers love technology, survey shows—but not when it comes to GMOs and farming

Technology in agriculture is how we’ll feed a growing population, make farming more sustainable and improve the lives of farm ...
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Lab-grown burgers? Cell-based steaks? Alternative meat industry scrambles to find consumer-friendly product names

Chase Purdy | 
The debate over what to call cell-cultured meat remains unresolved—and it could soon develop into a headache for the global ...
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‘CRISPR this, CRISPR that’: Is our fascination with the popular gene-editing tool distracting us from the potential of gene-silencing RNAi technology?

Ricki Lewis | 
I hope the public fascination with CRISPR can also embrace the other biotechnologies providing new therapeutic options ...
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Viewpoint: How the glyphosate-cancer controversy became a moral crusade—and a threat to scientific progress

Geoffrey Kabat | 
Sometimes the clear weight of evidence coupled with a dose of common sense is enough to show what’s right ...
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Consumer skepticism of plant-based meat could slow Impossible Foods’ expansion into Asia

If the American fake-meat darlings Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods have their way, chef Raymond Xie will soon be able ...
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‘Natural health’ and conspiracy sites exploit social media to fester opposition to GMO crops. Here’s a study about what can be done to stop it

Cameron English | 
The unsatisfactory answer to 'How do we control the spread of disinformation?" may be, "We don't know yet." ...
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Does the ‘genetics revolution’ unsettle you? Here is a guide, and reasons to be hopeful

Ricki Lewis | 
I'm thrilled that DNA science has become so much more tangible and practical. Yet we must use the information wisely ...
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Viewpoint: Conventional, organic farmers risk alienating consumers by ‘trashing’ each other’s products

Ed White | 
I once rescued a car from a mechanic who was pushing much unnecessary “repair” work. The ethical mechanic I took ...
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Viewpoint: USDA bioengineered food labels could clear up GMO confusion—if consumers educate themselves

Ronald Goldy | 
In this day of ready-to-eat, highly processed food, it is understandable that consumers want to know what is in their ...
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Viewpoint: How a small group of scientists and pliable media created a ‘catastrophe narrative’ that hurts bees and farmers

Henry Miller | 
The scientists who glommed onto the “bee-pocalypse” narrative never bothered to go back and correct the record ...
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Is there a place for CRISPR gene editing in organic farming? Many farmers say ‘yes’

Steven Cerier | 
Denying ourselves these benefits to protect distorted ideas about what's 'natural' is nonsensical ...
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Zambian food makers directed to label GMO products

Lenganji Sikapizye | 
Zambia’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has directed food producers to clearly label products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) so that ...
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Viewpoint: How international anti-biotech activists manipulate year-old Mexican government to block crop GMO innovations

Luis Ventura | 
Mexico's leadership should not restrict crop biotechnology based on personal beliefs or scientific misinformation ...
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