Environmental groups frustrated by Kauai mayor’s recommendation to defer Bill 2491

Chris D'Angelo | 
Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr.’s recommendation that the Kauai County Council defer Bill 2491 for two months stirred up a wide ...

Monsanto protesters toss money off balcony in Congressional offices

Mike Krumboltz | 
BuzzFeed Politics reported that Capitol Police took the cash, believed to be around $500, into evidence. Three people were also "taken ...

Why Northeast Ohio farmers disagree about the latest farm technology

Vivian Goodman | 
On Saturday, protestors in Akron, Cleveland, and hundreds of cities worldwide will take part in the second annual March Against ...

Biotechnology at the center of this year’s World Food Prize symposium

Kenneth Quinn | 
It is an intriguing question, and some potential answers may readily come to mind: Discovering the New World; going to ...
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Personal values not science drive views on GM foods

Craig Cormick | 
Because individual values dictate the attitudes with which we approach GM food, scientists should frame their messages to align with ...

EU governments ignoring their own scientific risk evaluation committees for political gain

EU governments are ignoring on their own scientific risk evaluation committees and creating false pseudo-scientific documents for political gain. In ...
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Behind the science of GMOs lies human achievement

Steve Savage | 
The debate around GMOs seems to miss an important point - that the technology was born from scientific investigation, not ...
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Scientists turn to GM wheat to avert potential global crisis

Elizabeth Finkel | 
Rising populations, new diseases and climate change threaten the wheat yields that sustain much of the planet. But, scientists have ...

Mandatory labeling of GMOs deserves a warning label of its own

Henry Miller, Jeff Stier | 
Washington State is about to become the latest battleground in a cynical, well-coordinated scare campaign against genetically engineered (GE) foods. Initiative ...

Fear over light-up plants exaggerated and unnecessary

Ronald Bailey | 
“What if someone decides it would be cute to light up a national forest?” asked Arthur Caplan, a bioethicist at ...

20 points of broad scientific consensus on GE crops

Pamela Ronald | 
Just as many on the political right discount the broad scientific consensus that human activities contribute to global warning, many progressive ...

Fight over genetically altered crops intensifies in Hawaii

Andrew Pollack | 
The balmy tropical isles here seem worlds apart from the expansive cornfields of the Midwest, but Hawaii has become the ...

Tanzania becomes a battleground in fight over genetically modified crops

Sharon Schmickle | 
When the bell rang at midday, students fetched tin bowls and lined up under trees in the schoolyard for scoops ...
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Study demonstrates net environmental benefit of GM crops

Michael Byrne | 
Touting the environmental friendliness of insect-resistant, GM crops — demonstrated in a new study on Bt corn -- may be a ...
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With 2000+ global studies affirming safety, GM foods among most analyzed subjects in science

JoAnna Wendel, Jon Entine | 
Anti-GMO activists can no longer claim that there is no independent research of GMOs. There are now more than 2,000 ...

Trade barriers fan GMO misconceptions in Africa

Maxx Chatsko | 
Monsanto attracts quite a bit of criticism for its transgenic crops and seeds, more commonly referred to as Genetically Modified Organisms, ...
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EU’s anti-GMO stance reflects food security politics, not health concerns

Alexander Huszagh | 
Many people mistakenly believe that the EU bans GMOs because of safety concerns, but really the ban has more to ...

Campaign to make Cyprus a GMO-free zone

Maria Gregoriou | 
A campaign was launched by environment commissioner Ioanna Panayiotou yesterday to declare Cyprus as a country free from genetically modified organisms (GMO) ...

Kauai County Council to consider diluted bill pertaining to pesticide, GMO rules

A hotly debated proposed ordinance pertaining to pesticide use and farming of genetically modified crops on the Garden Isle will ...
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How the ‘Poison Potato’ impacted the GMO debate

Maggie Koerth-Baker | 
The Lenape potato, first bred for potato chip production, has played a big role in shaping the USDA policy towards ...

Oregon moves to bar counties from blocking GMOS

Andy Giegerich | 
Environmental groups and local food activists are livid that a provision they believe would allow more genetically modified organisms to ...

All GM foods are not created equal

Alison Edwards | 
The Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe is a podcast that I enjoy every week. This week, the panel discussed the ...

Tanzania farmers should have the freedom to choose to embrace technology

Angel Navuri | 
Tanzania farmers, whose knowledge on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is very limited, should not be forced to embrace it, but ...

Angola succeeds in application of biotechnology in agriculture

Angola is recording significant progress in actions related to the application of plant biotechnology in the agricultural sector, in the ...

Philippines: GMO research has support

One of the country’s leading scientist-educators recently lauded the strong support given by the academic and science communities to researches on agricultural ...

Despite continuing opposition, Monsanto will not stop opposing GMO labeling efforts

Two decades after Robert T. Fraley pioneered Monsanto’s first genetically engineered crops, the public debate about the technology still rages ...
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Conspiracy theorists are more likely to distrust vaccines, GMOs

Christ Mooney | 
If you believe in one conspiracy theory, like that the NASA moon landing was fake, you're likely to hold anti-scientific ...
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