Agriculture Spotlight
Anti-GM activists pounce on viral DNA in transgenic plants
The GLP examines the increasingly desperate efforts of staunch anti-GM activists and journalists to regroup in the face of "defeats" ...
Can biotechnology be open-source?
As the Supreme Court watches Monsanto battle small farmers over GMO patent rights, some are suggesting that open-source biotechnology could ...
GMOs and The Mark Lynas Conversion: Round Two Roundup
The GLP digs through the fallout from Mark Lynas's public "conversion" from anti-GMO to pro-science activist ...
Opening minds to science, technology and genetic engineering
Genetic modification is neither good nor bad. Like any technology it is a tool. Like nuclear technology, fracking or advanced ...
Center for Genetics in Society excuses White House politicization of FDA, blasts GM salmon
The Biopolitical Times attacks GLP for reporting that the White House illegally and unethically intervened in a scientific review process ...
The global transgenic menagerie
Both sides of the debate over genetic modification in animals -- AquaBounty's “Frankenfish” salmon included -- tend to make it ...
FDA AquaBounty Draft Environmental Assessment Summary
Here are the four leaked pages of the April 19, 2012 FDA AquaBounty Draft Environmental Assessment Summary ...
Is the White House interfering with a scientific review?
Leaked documents from the FDA suggest that the first transgenic animal to be considered for federal approval in the U.S ...
Australian debate over Seralini paper continues
The Australian anti-GMO NGO Safe Food Foundation has reaffirmed its support for the much-derided Seralini paper in the wake of ...
Greenpeace’s disinformation campaign against Golden Rice, and science, prevails in China
In late summer, the Asian arm of Greenpeace issued an alarming press release headlined: “24 children used as guinea pigs ...
Defeated anti-GMO coalition resurrected as GMO Inside
Defeated at the polls in California, anti-GM forces behind Proposition 37 have resurrected their campaign under the moniker GMO Inside ...
USDA urges consideration of GMO crop insurance; Organic farmers howl
The USDA's new report, “Enchancing Coexistence,” advocates a crop insurance pilot program for farmers harmed by cross-pollination from GM crops ...
Anti-GM corn study reconsidered: Séralini finally responds to torrent of criticism
We are now two months into L'affaire Séralini—the publication of a maize rodent study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Séralini and ...
What’s next for the anti-GM food movement?
The reflections and recriminations over the rejection of California’s Proposition 37 is in full swing. The measure was soundly defeated, ...
Organic versus inorganic: an important distinction, but not for obvious reasons
The distinction between organic and inorganic -- natural versus unnatural -- carries massive cultural, historical, and social freight, as demonstrated ...
Scientists respond to controversial Séralini maize study
The fallout continues over the questionable study by French molecular biologist Gilles-Eric Seralini of rats fed genetically engineered rice. Food ...
Follow the money: Roots of the anti-genetic engineering movement
Like much that transpires in politics, most of the anti-genetic engineering campaigns we’ve seen over the past 30 years are ...
Malpractice on Dr. Oz: Pop health expert hosts anti-GM food rant; Scientists push back
The talk show health and science advice program hit a new low with Dr. Mehment Oz’s recent foray into the ...
Scientific assessment of California Prop 37
According to the editor of RealClearScience, biotechnology is being held back by a scaremongering group of environmentalists who seem to ...
Chilling effect of FDA slowness on approving GM animals that would lead to sustainable foods
A salmon with designer DNA has been in regulatory limbo since the Food and Drug Administration concluded that the fish ...
Does the Seralini corn study fiasco mark a turning point in the debate over GM food?
Are anti-biotech campaigners the leftwing version of climate change deniers? The science media are finally confronting the distortions perpetrated by ...
Media manipulation by anti-GM scientists and NGOs
The controversial study purportedly documenting the dangers of GM corn continues to come under fire--not from industry critics but from ...
Scientists savage study purportedly showing health dangers of Monsanto’s GM corn
Are GM foods harmful or nutritionally less beneficial when compared to conventional or organic foods? Scientists and regulators almost universally ...
Food labeling: Should environmentalists be pro-GM?
Half a century on from Rachel Carson’s seminal Silent Spring, debate rages over GM food labeling proposals ...
Wal-Mart resists protesters, will sell GM corn
The protest over Walmart’s decision to sell genetically modified sweet corn is building. Opponents of GM foods are alarmed and ...
Organic myth: No evidence that expensive ‘natural’ foods are healthier or better for the environment
There is remarkably little difference in nutritional value or risk for bacterial contamination between more expensive organic and conventional foods ...
GMOs and California: To label or not to label?
Steve Savage, a plant pathologist working with agricultural technology, gives his explanation of why voters should absolutely vote 'no' on ...
