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Monsanto PR firm FleishmanHillard defends effort to gather data on EU pesticide regulators, journalists

Thomas Moore | 
FleishmanHillard president and CEO John Saunders defended his agency’s work for Monsanto, which included compiling lists about stakeholders, in a ...
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Podcast: Getting back to nature—7 reasons you should start a home garden

Steve Savage | 
Our collective desire to get “back to nature” is probably one of the better instincts from the Woodstock era that ...
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As consumers become more and more detached from farming, ignorance about modern agriculture and GMOs grows

“Any farm is completely artificial. Even with organic farms, you strip away all the native vegetation,” says Pamela Ronald, a ...
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Viewpoint: India should stop bowing to ‘mindless opposition’ and approve GMO Bt eggplant

Sanjeev Sabhlok | 
A couple of decades ago, some of our brightest gene scientists in India took the genes of a commonly found ...
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54% of consumers want sustainable food, survey shows, but knowledge of nutrition, farming lacking

Topics like sustainability, plant-based diets and clean eating seem to permeate news about food, but it turns out they’re not ...
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Viewpoint: Will FDA finally crack down on ‘false and misleading’ Non-GMO Project labels?

Henry Miller | 
How much will mega food companies care until FDA decides to enforce the law? ...
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Podcast: Did a legendary train ride really lead to the rediscovery of Mendel’s laws?

Kat Arney | 
A Victorian scientist's train ride to London leads to the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of inheritance, Nice story, but is ...
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Organic food sales at $48 billion, now almost 6% of food, despite continued decline in market growth rate

Cathy Siegner | 
Sales of organic food in the U.S. last year totaled a record $47.9 billion — 5.9% higher than 2017, according ...
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Bayer hires law firm to probe Monsanto’s Europe-wide data collection on pesticide regulators, journalists

Tassilo Hummel | 
Bayer on [May 21] hired law firm Sidley Austin to investigate a Europe-wide data collection scheme run by its Monsanto ...
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Glyphosate-tainted burgers? Impossible Foods rebuffs Moms Across America’s latest anti-GMO campaign

Rachel Konrad | 
“Moms Across America” has escalated a year-long campaign against Impossible Foods to push its anti-vaccine, anti-GMO agenda to anyone gullible ...
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Consumers want to buy from ethical companies, but interest in non-GMO, organic labels dropping, survey shows

Jessi Devenyns | 
A survey conducted by Crestline Custom Promotional Products showed 68.3% of American consumers want to support companies that promote similar ...
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Afraid of GMOs? Thousands of studies, strict regulations show there’s nothing to fear, farmer says

Deb Gangwish | 
GMOs have been widely misunderstood. People are concerned about their health and the environment (and they should be worried about ...
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Viewpoint: How ‘insect Armageddon’ stories erode public trust in science

Teresa Carr | 
When I was growing up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, long before we spent our evenings drawn to the soft glow of ...
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Viewpoint: Why we can’t seem to bridge the gulf that divides pro- and anti-GMO forces

Steven Cerier | 
The opposition to GMOs is based not on scientific evidence, but on personal values and ideology. In effect, the two ...
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Chipotle attempts to derail lawsuit alleging its non-GMO marketing misled customers

Jonathan Pegg | 
Chipotle customers suing the burrito maker over its “non-GMO” menu claims are pressing a federal judge to deny the company’s ...
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Viewpoint: Lab-grown meat should replace farm animals as food

Matti Wilks | 
Why so many people resist cultured meat -- and why they shouldn't ...
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A matter of trust: Why anti-vaxxers are wary of Big Pharma

Teresa Carr | 
Vaccine opponents often share a conviction that the health care system is more interested in profits and power than helping ...
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GMO chestnut trees could help revitalize New York’s Native American communities

The American chestnut once dominated the eastern forests of the United States. A fungal pathogen, Cryphonectria parasitica, was introduced to ...
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Sen. Chuck Grassley: EU hostility to biotech, conventional agriculture shouldn’t be allowed to ‘scuttle’ trade talks with US

Chuck Grassley | 
When trade representatives visit me to discuss biotechnology products, often the first thing I do is eat a genetically modified ...
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Viewpoint: Regulators should embrace the Vatican’s decade-old endorsement of GMOs

Henry Miller | 
If only legislators and regulators would “get religion" and take the Pontifical Academy’s decade-old recommendations to heart ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-GMO forces in Nigeria have abandoned reason and the nation’s best interests

Opuah Abeikwen | 
Protecting health and and food security is best done through dialogue and education, not threats and smear campaigns ...
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Lab-grown burgers are coming, but heated political battle will determine future of cell-cultured meat

Laura Reiley | 
Companies in the United States and abroad are moving quickly to bring to market hamburgers and other meat, poultry and ...
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Expensive is healthier? How premium organic food prices mislead shoppers

Susan Robertson | 
Organic food and organic farming have a really strong association with being “better.” But not everyone means the same thing ...
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Podcast: Burger King’s ‘Impossible’ Whopper—’breakout moment’ for plant-based meat?

Jason Margolis | 
The Whopper is an icon of American culture. But the Whopper is getting a complete overhaul — and when we ...
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Ethos Chocolate, candy brand that hypes its GMO ingredients, back by popular demand

In its debut in February, the debut of Ethos Chocolate made a big, wonderful, delicious splash — the initial batch of 10,000 ...
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Viewpoint: How my cancer treatment turned me into a living, breathing GMO

Steve Clark | 
Whether in cancer cells or apples, GMOs are improving lives ...
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Podcast: Why do we like sweet foods? How taste and smell color our sense of the world

Kevin Folta, Linda Bartoshuk | 
University of Florida researcher Linda Bartoshuk has been recognized as an expert on interactions between smell, taste and psychology for ...
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