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How western organic food companies are threatening China’s farmers

Fu Danni | 
As Chinese consumers have prioritized food quality, imported organic products have soared in popularity, with some supermarkets following in the ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Heritage’ of emotional decision-making fuels EU’s opposition to biotech crops

Colin Berry | 
As Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American politician and diplomat famously put it, “You are entitled to your opinion. But you are ...
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Health and environmental dangers of copper-based natural pesticides spark division among French organic winemakers

Mickaël Bosredon | 
The vice-president of the CIVB (Conseil interprofessionnel du vin de Bordeaux) Bernard Farges launched a bomb on October 15, announcing that ...
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Germany’s environment minister pitches plan to ban glyphosate by 2023

Ludwig Burger, Markus Wacket | 
Germany plans new conditions for pesticide approval and will seek an end date for the use of glyphosate-based weed killers, ...
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Earth-friendly GMOs: How Bt crops eliminated 6 million tons of pesticides

[W]hen I first heard about genetic engineering when visiting my eventual graduate school home, I was really excited about the ...
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UK neonicotinoid ban invites spread of deadly virus yellows disease, sugar beet farmers warn

Simon Smith | 
When I was elected to the role of NFU Sugar vice-chairman, it was foremost in my mind that every grower’s ...
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Bayer might seek settlements in some Monsanto glyphosate-cancer suits, but prepares to fight large claims

Tina Bellon | 
Bayer AG’s chief executive said .... the company might consider settling lawsuits over Monsanto’s glyphosate-containing weed-killers depending on how high ...
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273 Colombian farmers sue government spraying glyphosate to destroy coca plants used to make cocaine

Renzo Pipoli | 
The Colombian government faces 273 lawsuits stemming from damages to crops, land and water caused by the spraying the herbicide ...
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Viewpoint: Why a jury verdict against Monsanto doesn’t change anything regarding the safety of Roundup herbicide

Ian Musgrave | 
The common weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) is back in the news after a US court ruled it contributed to a man’s terminal cancer (non-Hodgkin ...
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Legal challenges expected after EPA re-authorizes controversial weed-killing herbicide dicamba

Susan Bruninga, Tiffany Stecker | 
Farmers can use the pesticide dicamba to clear fields of stubborn weeds for two more growing seasons after the EPA ...
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Plaintiff accepts reduced damages in first glyphosate-cancer trial, Bayer to appeal verdict

A Northern California groundskeeper said [October 31] that he will accept a judge’s reduced verdict of $78 million against Monsanto ...
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Can biotechnology help protect the world’s chocolate supply?

Bryce Gray | 
[K]eeping pace with global cravings can be a tall order for chocolate producers — a challenge made even tougher as ...
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Replacing neonicotinoid pesticides is no easy task, Canadian farmers say

Emily Unglesbee | 
In 2015, the Canadian province [Ontario] instituted regulations requiring farmers to prove they have soil pest populations in corn and ...
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6 things agroecology can do for farming and the environment

Agroecology has returned to the global spotlight, as one approach to bring farmers closer to meeting challenges [like rising food ...
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Environmental Working Group or the EPA: Who should parents trust about glyphosate safety?

David Meyer | 
Remember a couple months back when an advocacy group found what it called “a hefty dose” of glyphosate, the active ingredient in weedkillers such ...
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EU delays decision to re-approve ‘toxic’ copper compounds, widely used as pesticides in organic farming

Simon Marks | 
EU countries have delayed a decision on whether or not to reauthorize the use of copper compounds — chemical substances ...
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Despite FDA safety data, media promote glyphosate scare stories to drive readership, farmer says

Amanda Zaluckyj | 
FDA Testing Finds No Glyphosate Residues in Over Half of Commodities Tested. And what they did find was well within ...
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Announcing appeal of reaffirmed Roundup-cancer verdict, Bayer develops defense strategy of Monsanto’s flagship product

Jacob Bunge, Ruth Bender, Sara Randazzo | 
Bayer AG’s $63 billion acquisition of Monsanto .... made the German drug and chemicals company the world’s biggest supplier of crop seeds and ...
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Viewpoint: Chemophobia epidemic—Fanning fears about trace chemicals obscures real risks and ‘damages public health’

Jon Entine | 
When is a chemical dangerous? This is not a question we consciously ask ourselves much, but in fact, we interrogate ...
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Using gene editing to control forest fires? It could be a reality if anti-biotechnology activists don’t block it

Andrew Porterfield | 
The American west has experienced devastating wildfires in recent years; while the number of fires has decreased a little over ...
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Judge upholds landmark glyphosate-cancer verdict, cuts punitive damages 84% to $39 million

Sam Levin | 
A California judge has rejected Monsanto’s appeal to overturn a landmark jury verdict which found that its popular herbicide causes cancer. The ...
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Argentina approves first drought-resistant, herbicide-tolerant GMO soybean

The Argentine government approved the first soy that is tolerant to drought and that also combines better weed control by ...
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Viewpoint: FDA pesticide report should alleviate public fears of chemicals in food, but no one is listening

Keith Nunes | 
The International Food Information Council Foundation’s (IFIC) 2018 Food & Health survey identified carcinogens or cancer-causing chemicals in food as ...
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There are literally no more studies we can do to show glyphosate is safe, expert says

Geoffrey Kabat | 
Several days ago I wrote a column about the wrong-headed claim that glyphosate is a carcinogen and the huge number of tort ...
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Oxitec, Gates Foundation aim to curb pesticide-resistant insects, malaria with new ‘self-limiting mosquito’

Oxitec [a] UK-based biotechnology company ..... [October 18] announced that it is expanding its collaboration with the Bill & Melinda ...
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Mother Nature? More like ‘Mad Scientist Mama’—creator of chemicals good and bad for humans

Steve Savage | 
Nature is not some sort of cosmic mother figure. On the contrary, nature is composed of diverse biological and physical ...
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After successful demonization campaign against herbicide glyphosate, anti-GMO activists and environmental groups take aim at atrazine

Andrew Porterfield | 
In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued an extensive report that reviewed decades of science and declared that a ...
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