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Viewpoint: Here’s what’s wrong with study suggesting glyphosate damages our gut health

Marc Brazeau | 
Can glyphosate impact gut health? The Guardian reports on a team of scientists who claim to have demonstrated that it ...
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Early feedback on USDA’s GMO labeling proposal reveals ‘significant disagreement’

Elaine Watson | 
If the first wave of comments to its proposed rule on GMO labeling is anything to go by, USDA’s agricultural ...
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European Seeds Association: Foods made with new breeding techniques shouldn’t be labeled

Sarantis Michalopoulos | 
Labelling products that result from the so-called new plant breeding techniques would provide little new information and would therefore make ...
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Viewpoint: What California’s coffee-cancer label teaches us about IARC and glyphosate

Tirzah Duren | 
For coffee drinkers in California, health warnings on their morning fix will soon be commonplace. [In May], a legal battle involving Starbucks ...
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What the ‘Big Six’ agricultural biotech companies think about the GMO debate

Lisa Cornish | 
Smack at the center of the debate over genetically modified organisms and their role in developing countries are large corporations. Bayer, BASF, Dow ...
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Viewpoint: How the Environmental Working Group and ‘Big Organic’ manipulate pesticide data to scare people

Steve Savage | 
Consumers have a legitimate desire for transparency when it comes to their food - particularly when it comes to the ...
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Which foods does the USDA’s proposed ‘bioengineered’ label cover?

Amy Harmon | 
The United States Department of Agriculture has proposed new guidelines for labeling foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. Food makers will ...
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Disease-resistant GMO tomatoes, strawberries and citrus in the pipeline

Anne Schwartz | 
As increasing numbers of genetically engineered crops become available for commercial markets, scientists are industriously working to develop the next ...
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Funny or Die website: ‘All-Natural, Non-GMO 100% Gluten-Free Internet Video!’

Wyatt Bechtel | 
If you've walked through the grocery store you've probably seen the marketing spin of food labels. “Non-GMO,” “gluten free,” “natural,” ...
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Gene Drive Files ‘cabal’—and biotech rejectionist efforts to derail research on technology with potential to fight crop pests

Andrew Porterfield | 
The email came from Roylan Saah, coordinator of Genetic Biocontrol of Invasive Rodents at Island Conservation, a non-profit dedicated to ...
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USDA wants your opinion on its GMO labeling proposal

John Timmer | 
There's nothing inherently unsafe about genetically engineering crops or agricultural animals. ... But the public has been consistently uneasy about ...
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CRISPR’s swiftest and most promising application might be food

Shelby Pope | 
When people mention CRISPR, they’re usually breathless over its potential to cure diseases like sickle cell anemia and muscular dystrophy ...
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Viewpoint: Brazilian anti-GMO activists should stop supporting fear-mongering label

Lucia de Souza | 
What is the difference between these two signs? Both show a black T inside a yellow warning shape. But in ...
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Viewpoint: Don’t let anti-GMO activist moms bully you into buying organic

Sarah Schultz | 
I could certainly afford to pay up to 50 per cent more for organic food for my children to eat, ...
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Viewpoint: USDA’s friendly ‘bioengineered’ food label could help undo anti-GMO activists’ stigmatization

Joan Conrow | 
Though anti-GMO activists have long pushed labeling as a way to stigmatize genetically modified foods, America’s draft proposal for labeling ...
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Video: Can CRISPR gene editing help solve world’s food and farming challenges?

A research team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is developing higher-yielding tomato plants with a gene-editing tool called Crispr-Cas9. Are ...
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Viewpoint: Monsanto GMO Bt cotton patent case ‘shows socialism’s hold on Indian politics’

Shanthu Shantharam | 
The Delhi High Court has just decreed that Monsanto cannot claim any intellectual property right (IPR) over its Bt cotton ...
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China seeks to dislodge US dominance in CRISPR gene-edited crops

Jacob Bunge, Lucy Craymer | 
China is seeking a lead in editing plant genes, potentially shifting the epicenter of the emerging agricultural technology toward the ...
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Natural News: The pro-Trump website that anti-GMO and anti-vaccine liberals love to share

Joe McCarthy | 
Natural News — and [Mike] Adams’ expanding nebula of self-promoting sites — produces shareable content on buzzworthy health topics such ...
India's food regulator proposes mandatory GMO labeling

India’s food regulator proposes mandatory GMO labeling

Vishwa Mohan | 
Seeking to introduce GMO labelling for the first time in India, the country’s food regulator has proposed all packaged food products containing genetically modified ...
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GMO crop pioneer Robb Fraley to leave Monsanto after Bayer takeover

Lydia Mulvany | 
It’s the end of an era at Monsanto Co. after executives including the seed giant’s scientific leader Robb Fraley announced ...
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Viewpoint: Legal certainty, public support needed to unlock biotech’s potential in Europe

John Brennan | 
A new age is dawning in Europe, one that offers an opportunity to fully realize the power of biotechnology to ...
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Talking Biotech: Non-agricultural debt—not GMOs—to blame for Indian farmer suicides

Environmental scientist Vaishnavi Tripuraneni: Marriage loans and health care—not seed costs—are the main drivers of debt for smallholder farmers in ...
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Viewpoint: Food companies’ non-GMO advertising has a human cost

Michael Gerson | 
In keeping with our era of ideological boycotts, I will no longer be purchasing Kind bars. Or Barilla pasta. Or Triscuit crackers. Or Del Monte diced tomatoes. Or Nutro dog ...
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Most UK millennials unconcerned about eating GMO foods, poll finds

Victoria Ward | 
The advent of genetically modified crops caused a scandal in the 1990s. But the younger generation is largely relaxed about ...
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Viewpoint: USDA GMO labeling proposal could make things more confusing

Sam Bloch | 
On its surface, the rule is intended to reduce the consumer confusion that abounds when it comes to GMOs. But ...
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Biotech supporters in the Philippines advance bill to speed up GMO regulatory process

Edd Usman | 
What's 5.41 years, or 65 months, or 1,950 days? That’s how long it takes to get all the requirements before genetically ...
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