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Viewpoint: Brazilian anti-GMO activists should stop supporting fear-mongering label
What is the difference between these two signs? Both show a black T inside a yellow warning shape. But in ...
Viewpoint: Don’t let anti-GMO activist moms bully you into buying organic
I could certainly afford to pay up to 50 per cent more for organic food for my children to eat, ...
Viewpoint: USDA’s friendly ‘bioengineered’ food label could help undo anti-GMO activists’ stigmatization
Though anti-GMO activists have long pushed labeling as a way to stigmatize genetically modified foods, America’s draft proposal for labeling ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: Monsanto GMO Bt cotton patent case ‘shows socialism’s hold on Indian politics’
The Delhi High Court has just decreed that Monsanto cannot claim any intellectual property right (IPR) over its Bt cotton ...
China seeks to dislodge US dominance in CRISPR gene-edited crops
China is seeking a lead in editing plant genes, potentially shifting the epicenter of the emerging agricultural technology toward the ...
Natural News: The pro-Trump website that anti-GMO and anti-vaccine liberals love to share
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
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 ...
GMO crop pioneer Robb Fraley to leave Monsanto after Bayer takeover
It’s the end of an era at Monsanto Co. after executives including the seed giant’s scientific leader Robb Fraley announced ...
Viewpoint: Legal certainty, public support needed to unlock biotech’s potential in Europe
A new age is dawning in Europe, one that offers an opportunity to fully realize the power of biotechnology to ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: Food companies’ non-GMO advertising has a human cost
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 ...
Most UK millennials unconcerned about eating GMO foods, poll finds
The advent of genetically modified crops caused a scandal in the 1990s. But the younger generation is largely relaxed about ...
Viewpoint: USDA GMO labeling proposal could make things more confusing
On its surface, the rule is intended to reduce the consumer confusion that abounds when it comes to GMOs. But ...
Biotech supporters in the Philippines advance bill to speed up GMO regulatory process
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 ...
Viewpoint: ‘Precision plant breeding’ better describes crop biotechnology than misused ‘GMO’ term
[I]n agriculture we continue to use terms such as GMO, GE, GM, transgenic, CRISPR, TALEN, genome/gene editing and biotech crops ...
Viewpoint: North American scientists, IARC officials conspired to misrepresent glyphosate health risks
On March 20, 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that it had classified glyphosate, the active substance ...
USDA’s GMO food labeling proposal: What you need to know
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has published a long-awaited proposed rule to establish GMO labeling standards (the National Bioengineered ...
Viewpoint: US, EU decisions pave way for ‘more consistent and rational’ regulation of gene-edited foods
Genome engineering using CRISPR–Cas9 technology has come a long way in a very short time. ... Now, CRISPR–Cas9 has passed another ...
Which GMO foods are available at US grocery stores?
While GMOs typically make a disproportionate splash in the media, the reality is that there are very few different types ...
Viewpoint: Uganda’s promising GMO crops blocked by anti-science NGOs
Though Uganda's scientists, working with international partners, have now developed better staple crops, their hands have been tied by the success ...
Viewpoint: Why organic farming activists oppose New Breeding Techniques (NBTs)
There was a brief moment in 2015 where organic farming researchers were having an open discussion on adopting certain innovative ...
USDA releases GMO food labeling proposal—suggests using ‘bioengineered’ instead of ‘genetically modified’
USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service has issued a proposed rule to implement the landmark legislation requiring some form of disclosure of ...
‘Ecomodern Eating’: Why agricultural productivity and innovation are key to sustainable food and farming
Sunday, April 22nd, marked nearly 50 years since millions of people gathered for the first Earth Day. Their celebration raised awareness ...
6 promising genetically engineered animals stuck in regulatory purgatory
You’ve probably heard the news that genetically engineered (GE) Atlantic salmon is on the way. ... Here are six other genetically ...
Viewpoint: 8 things Vandana Shiva needs to know about US farmers and GMOs
In mid-April, famous anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva was paid nearly $20K by my hometown university to speak on campus. While I can appreciate her ...
Podcast: Geneticist Pamela Ronald on how GMO misinformation could hurt world’s poor
If you’ve heard that GMOs are bad, I want to introduce you to Pamela Ronald. A plant geneticist, Pamela co-authored ...
