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GMO crops in Africa: How South African farmers paved the way
“I feel I wasted my time working for over 20 years as an electrical engineer in Johannesburg,” said Khambi Frans ...
Viewpoint: Divide between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ chemicals is meaningless
Since pesticides and herbicides are routinely in the news, lately because of the "Glyphosate Wars," (2) I thought it might be interesting to ...
In push for access to GMO seeds, Indian farmers turn to social media
At a time when there is a massive controversy over genetically modified crops, a farmers’ organisation in Maharashtra is making ...
Why is the Impossible Burger under attack by anti-GMO groups?
The food start-up’s success is undeniable — and a noticeable affront to Big Meat — but Impossible Foods’ hasty rise has also ...
CRISPRcon talks designer babies and scientific colonialism
While lacking the costuming of Comic-Con or revelry of SantaCon, [CRISPRCon’s] second annual geek-out dealt with a concept weightier than ...
EU food safety chief: Reelection—not reality—motivated Europe’s anti-glyphosate politicians
Some politicians spoke “loudly” against glyphosate, the world’s most commonly used weedkiller, before their elections but came back to reality ...
R.I.P. Monsanto. Our hates will go on.
Welp, this is the end of Monsanto. Not the end of the seed company, mind you, but the end of ...
US FDA: Gene-edited crops can have many advantages for consumers
Scientific advances in biotechnology, such as genome editing and synthetic biology, hold enormous potential to improve human and animal health, ...
How do you know ‘pseudoscience’ when you see it?
Ontario Correactology Health Care Centres offer 'natural' ways to manage pain, but they're not scientifically proven ...
Infamous Seralini GMO rat tumor study debunked by European scientists
Three European studies have disproved Gilles-Éric Séralini’s widely circulated claims that genetically modified maize (corn) induces tumors in rats. Séralini, ...
Organic farming advocate Klaas Martens comes out in favor of gene-edited crops
Klaas Martens, a prominent voice in the organic movement and a third-generation grain and livestock farmer, says he would be ...
Podcast: Has the GMO debate reached a turning point?
For more than a decade now, environmentalist groups have waged a successful campaign against biotechnology in agriculture. Playing on the ...
Viewpoint: Quick start on gene-edited crop research gives UK advantage over rest of Europe
Good news for the UK, but bad news for the anti-science, anti-progress green movement: the Telegraph reports that ‘gene-edited super-crops’ are ...
Farmers on social media: The dark side of being an ‘agvocate’
I have tried my best to encourage people that it is essential to share their farm stories in the title ...
The future of meat: Can science replace animals?
All economic activities related to research, development, production, trade and consumption of plants, animals and all other living things are ...
Anti-GMO group: ‘Bayer is now the new Monsanto’
Bayer’s decision to drop the name means Monsanto products like Roundup will still be Roundup, but now they will be ...
Are farmers the key to countering glyphosate fearmongering?
The public conversation around glyphosate is all flowing in one direction. A cluster of environmental campaigners, organic food activists and ...
Viewpoint: The faulty logic behind popular anti-GMO meme ‘it just feels right’
I don’t know about you, but I have never liked the sound the letters TO, TWO, and TOO makes. Maybe ...
Viewpoint: Retiring the Monsanto brand could be good for the GMO debate
Though critics will no doubt accuse Monsanto of greenwashing its products under the less-familiar Bayer brand, I’d like to argue ...
France to vote on mandatory label for meat and dairy products from animals fed GMOs
French politicians have backed a proposal for mandatory labelling of meat and dairy products from animals raised on genetically modified ...
Will this ‘germ game’ help us prepare for a terror attack using a bioengineered virus?
In June 2001, a group of government officials and journalists play-acted their way through a “germ game,” a fictional scenario ...
Golden Rice: Debunking Greenpeace’s ‘misinformed and politically motivated’ claims against the vitamin-enhanced GMO crop
The campaign against GR2E was partly misinformed, partly politically motivated. ... One argument is that the benefits of GR2E are ...
GMO crop pioneer Marc Van Montagu: Overpopulation—not GMOs—drives monocultures
At roughly the same time as Mary-Dell Chilton and Monsanto, who were working in the United States, [Belgian molecular biologists ...
Viewpoint: French media’s ‘fake news’ on glyphosate herbicide endangers science in Europe
In Europe, technical matters which should be science-based, such as the authorization of marketing for chemicals or genetically engineered plants, ...
Talking Biotech: From non-GMO to organic, has food labeling gone too far?
Elanco's Colleen Parr Dekker: Product differentiation and marketing—not transparency and education—are why food companies adopt trendy labels ...
The end of Monsanto: Bayer to drop company’s name following takeover
The Monsanto company name, which has become synonymous with genetically modified food and as a longstanding target of environmental activists, ...
Mark Lynas: Scotland’s GMO ban hurts food security in Africa
Mark Lynas, a former eco-warrior who, five years ago, made a dramatic U-turn from trying to shut down scientific research ...
