Proponents and opponents of GMO labeling step up efforts in Colorado

Peter Marcus | 
Proponents of a proposed ballot initiative that would require labeling of genetically modified foods are nearing the end of their ...
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Molokai voters have most to lose but least to say in Maui’s proposed GMO ban

Anita Hofschneider | 
Samson Kaahanui wakes up every weekday on the Hoolehua homestead, pulls on a neon long-sleeved shirt and goes to work ...
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Poorest have most to gain from GMOs, hurt most by GMO scare-mongering

Glenda Toma | 
The Grocery Manufacturers Association brought a lawsuit in response to Vermont becoming the first state to require GMO labeling regardless ...
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Study claiming organic food more nutritious ‘deeply flawed’, say independent scientists

XiaoZhi Lim | 
Are organic foods better for you? A new study published in the British Journal of Nutrition appears to indicate so ...
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“Parallel science” of NGO advocacy groups: How post-modernism encourages pseudo-science

Marcel Kuntz | 
Political ecologists—commentators in the media and among NGO advocacy groups—like science...when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather ...

Mexican farmers reject GM beans

Bean grower Manuel Alvarado is part of the majority of producers in Mexico who consider it unnecessary to introduce genetically ...

Video: Monsanto moving away from GMOs to crossbreeding

Justin Maiman | 
Agriculture giant Monsanto is spending significant money and resources to create 'new' all-natural vegetables and fruits through crossbreeding techniques. Cue ...
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Cannabis Genome Project will discover medical mysteries of marijuana

Tabitha M. Powledge | 
Cannabis Genome Project plans to develop a fine-grained map of cannabis genes, involving two of the main strains of cannabis, ...

Organic Consumers Fund makes second $100,000 donation to Oregon’s GMO labeling measure

Nigel Jaquiss | 
A group called the Organic Consumers Fund has made a second $100,000 contribution to Oregon GMO Right to Know, the political action committee behind ...

Going non-GMO often means returning to less environmentally friendly food production system

Elaine Watson | 
When consumers think about GMOs, they tend to contrast them with “some hypothetical alternative food that is pristine”, when in ...
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Video: Congressional panel concludes labeling would stoke GMO fears

Michael McAuliff | 
It's pretty rare that members of Congress and all the witnesses they've called will declare out loud that Americans are ...

Zambian municipality destroys over 1000 lbs of cereals with GMOs

The Livingstone City Council swung into action seizing and destroying cereals from Shoprite Supermarket containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Livingstone City Council Chief Health Inspector ...

Scientists call to lift Kenyan GMO ban, claim it affects HIV-Aids patients who need nutrition

Henry Kibira | 
A group of scientists from public universities and research centres has faulted the government for banning genetically modified foods. The scientists ...
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Popular Science debunks 10 GMO myths

Brooke Borel | 
Amid the ongoing controversy over genetically modified organisms and the debate over labeling them, science magazine Popular Science joins in ...

Wealthy foreign NGOs block GMOs in India, hinder progress to food security

Madhav Nalapat | 
Six foreign NGOs based in wealthy countries, many of which themselves permit such innovations, have thus far succeeded in blocking ...

Oregon’s GMO task force gets few answers from federal GMO regulators

Tracy Loew | 
An Oregon task force studying genetically modified crops and food grilled federal regulators at its meeting Thursday, but didn’t get a lot ...

South Africa to review GMO labeling regulations over ‘loophole’

Nompumelelo Magwaza | 
Local food companies had been hiding large amounts of genetically modified organism (GMO) content behind the “may contain GMOs” label, ...

‘Preppers’ join anti-GMO movement in search of healthier post-apocalyptic lifestyle

Mark Strauss | 
Activists championing organic foods have found support among preppers (people preparing for the end of civilization). They're sympathetic to the ...
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Video: ‘Real’ vegan cheese to be available courtesy of new GE yeast

Sam Levin | 
Oakland biohackers are manufacturing the first-ever vegan cheese product made from genetically modified yeast ...
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GMOs are not meaningful ‘category’ of foods or ingredients

Henry Miller | 
Even after two decades of stunning scientific, humanitarian and financial successes and an admirable record of safety, the application of genetic engineering ...

Iowa consumers care more about taste, price, nutrition, safety than organic or GMOs in food

Donnelle Eller | 
Iowans care about where their food is grown, whether it's organic, made with high-fructose syrup or without GMOs, a new ...

Stewardship program essential for new GM herbicide-resistant crops to be effective

Ross Korves | 
On June 30 the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) closed a 60-day comment period on its proposed decision to register ...

GM papaya registry in Hawaii will not release growers’ information publicly

Tom Callis | 
Judge Greg Nakamura granted a preliminary injunction Tuesday preventing Hawaii County from disclosing the identity and specific location of farms ...

Ag industry’s failure to communicate biotech’s benefits to blame for heated GMO debate

Sarah Gonzalez | 
The heated public debate over genetically modified foods shows the agricultural industry is not doing enough to communicate biotechnology's benefits ...

El Salvadoran farmers protest millions in US aid over GM seeds

Nina Lakhani | 
Farmers in El Salvador are protesting against a multimillion-dollar grant from a US aid agency that would force the country to open its seed ...

Single standard needed for GMO labeling to serve consumers, not special interests

Carol Keiser | 
I have a big family—and between me, my kids, and my grandkids, we’re spread out across America. We live in ...

Similarities between anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists

David Gorski | 
If there’s one characteristic that nearly all cranks share it’s an intolerance of criticism and a tendency to want to ...
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