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Was there Russian collusion? When it comes to prominent anti-GMO groups, the disturbing answer is ‘yes’
Modern genetic engineering techniques applied to agriculture are making stunning advances. This year, after decades in (gratuitous) regulatory limbo, the ...
Organic industry splinters as USDA ‘bioengineered’ labeling initiative progresses
Richmond-based Nature's Path Foods, a leading organic breakfast company in North America, has recently announced its resignation from the Organic ...
‘War of words’ over what to call lab-grown meat exposes divide in America’s food culture
On [July 12th], in a small but packed auditorium, the FDA convened a public meeting about lab-grown meat—but you wouldn’t ...
Public sorting through what labels shoppers want on sustainable, lab grown meat, Consumer Reports finds
Consumer Reports, published by the 7 million-member nonprofit Consumers Union, [recently] reported on survey results showing the public expects laboratory-produced ...
Viewpoint: Consumers with special dietary needs forced to buy overpriced, less nutritious ‘non-GMO’ foods
Because of a tick-borne disease I contracted last year, I am no longer able to eat beef, pork, or dairy products ...
Viewpoint: We should just retire the whole ‘feed the world’ thing when it comes to promoting GMOs
How often do we hear something along the lines of "We won't be able to feed 10 billion people by ...
Viewpoint: Once fierce opponents of GMOs, Australian Greens may be softening their hard-line stance
A former radical environmental activist who made a stunning reversal on genetically-modified crops believes Australian farmers need access to the ...
Viewpoint: Organic industry allies ignore expert witness’s hypocrisy in Roundup weed killer trial
Chris Portier, Ph.D., an activist statistician who pushed to get the common herbicide ingredient glyphosate listed as a "hazard" for ...
Alternate facts: Why are we still telling women that abortion causes breast cancer?
On June 26th, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of crisis pregnancy centers that were challenging a California law, the Reproductive ...
78 percent of Germans say humans have ‘no right’ to genetically engineer plants and animals, government study shows
79 percent of Germans agree that genetic engineering should be banned in agriculture, according to a 2017 study by the Federal ...
How to change consumer perception of crop biotechnology and GMO foods
Genetically modified (GM) foods for human consumption have long been a subject of intense public debate, as well as academic ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how the New York Times botched an op-ed about placebos
As part of the continuing decline of the New York Times, we have this new op-ed by Steve Petrow, a writer ...
Video: Nobel Laureate Richard Roberts recruits young scientists to counter Greenpeace misinformation about ‘failure’ of nutritionally enhanced Golden Rice, GMOs
When Monsanto first tried to introduce GMO seeds into Europe there was a backlash by the Green parties and their ...
Blundering through the food label controversy: How one poultry company exploits consumer fears over ‘natural’ and GMOs
I live in a super tiny town, about 1,000 people with no stoplight in the whole county...Therefore, it may sound ...
Mandatory genetically engineered food labels could reduce consumer fears, opposition to biotechnology, food scientists claim
Science Advances (the open-access version of Science Magazine) just published a paper I co-authored with Jane Kolodinsky from the University of Vermont. ... Several years ago, I ...
Viewpoint: EU’s new pesticide oversight committee is poised to further politicize glyphosate controversy
Earlier this year, the European Parliament created PEST, a temporary committee on pesticides, to try and draw a line under the controversy ...
Viewpoint: Dicamba pesticide mess already haunting Bayer’s takeover of Monsanto
It’s happening again. In states from Mississippi to Indiana, some US soybean farmers are seeing a troubling sight: Previously healthy plants ...
Viewpoint: CRISPR and other new plant breeding technologies (NBTs) can help Europe address food and farming problems
Language and accusations are still exactly what they were in the late 1990s: “Frankenfoods” allegedly threatened the health and lives ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO activists crave a return to ‘simpler times’ in farming. Here’s why that would be disastrous.
The appeal of simpler times, as imagined by wealthy white guys ...
Talking Biotech: Mark Lynas’ evolution from anti-GMO activist to GMO advocate
Writer Mark Lynas discusses his life as an anti-GMO activist, why he changed his mind, and his new book Seeds ...
Video: How CRISPR is changing the GMO debate
CRISPR is changing everything we thought we knew about Genetic Engineering, because according to the USDA, they won't be regulating ...
Viewpoint: Simple disclosure—not fancy logo—is what GMO labeling needs
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has come up with cheerful new labels for genetically modified foods. The bright green and ...
Viewpoint: Biofortified GMO crops can help alleviate world hunger
About 800 million people are currently suffering from hunger in the world, and some 2 billion suffer from some type of ...
Golden Rice misinformation: FDA debunks Michael Pollan, Independent Science News
On May 24, 2018 the FDA approved Golden Rice for consumption in the USA, a curious move, because we will ...
40% of US consumers avoid GMO foods at grocery store, survey finds
Even though consumer awareness and knowledge of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) aren't very high, a recent online survey from the International Food Information Council ...
Mandatory label may improve consumer confidence in GMO foods, study finds
Today’s findings suggest ... that the presence of labels may serve to dispel consumer concerns about GMOs by increasing their ...
Impossible Foods: Friends of the Earth is ‘anti-science fundamentalist’ group
For more than a year, the non-governmental organization Friends of the Earth (FOE) has been trying to malign and defame ...
