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Anti-biotech activists would the let Hawaiian papaya go the way of the Dodo

Jon Entine | 
In the 80s, Hawaii's papaya crop was almost wiped out by the ringspot virus. Today the crop thrives because most ...
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Anti-biotech activists would let Hawaiian papaya go the way of the Dodo

Jon Entine | 
In the 80s, Hawaii's papaya crop was almost wiped out by the ringspot virus. Today the crop thrives because most ...
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Video: Pro-GE rally encircles Hilo, Hawaii government buildings

The following is an edited excerpt. A group comprised of a number of agricultural businesses, united in their opposition to ...
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Nature commentary: Europe losing ground in GM crop science

Brian Heap | 
The EU must regulate GM plant varieties with sound science or risk losing ground in the race to grow more ...
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A geneticist attempts to replicate the famed “stunning corn” study

Kevin Folta | 
Anti-GM crusaders don't really want independent replication, that would expose their lack of evidence ...
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Coffee in crisis: Transgenics to the rescue?

Caroline Coatney | 
Central American coffee production is on red alert because of the coffee rust fungus. We need transgenics to create resistant, ...
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Genetically modified RNA scare seems bogus

Emily Willingham | 
A molecule as unstable as RNA likely couldn't even make it past our digestive system ...
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Who really deserves a food prize?

Mark Bittman | 
Food writer Mark Bittman argues against the biotech-focused winners of this years World Food Prize ...
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FDA: All genetically modified crops are safe and nutritious as conventional crops

Jenny Manongdo | 
According to the FDA: "All food derived from GM crops in the market have met international food safety standards and ...
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Italy: Agriculture minister wants GMOs banned

Kate Carlisle | 
Italian ag minister wants to ban the cultivation of GMOs, with with backing from the Italian health and environment ministers ...
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Australian Supreme Court refuses GM injunction

The Supreme Court has refused to grant an injunction preventing Western Australian farmer Mike Baxter from planting genetically modified (GM) ...
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Oregon: Genetically modified crops vandalized

Karl Haro von Mogel | 
Some 6,500 GM plants have been destroyed by "eco-activists" in Oregon since the beginning of the month ...
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When is a tomato not a tomato?

Michael Winerip | 
Our modern tomatoes are tasteless -- could GM tech restore the tomato's tastiness? ...
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University student scientist view of crop biotech safety critics: Where’s the beef?

Gonzalo Villarino | 
Cornell University graduate student in Plant Sciences, Gonzalo Pizarro, whose research revolves around molecular biology, provides this week's special guest ...
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The dangers of condescension in the GM debate

Paul Nightingale | 
The UK's Environmental Minister needs to reframe his proposed GM discussion if he wants to avoid a slow-motion train wreck ...
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USDA approves Non-GMO Project’s label claims

Stephanie Strom | 
In a first for the U.S., the Agriculture Department has approved the Non-GMO project's labels for meat and liquid egg ...
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World Food Prize goes to those who made GM plants possible

The "Nobel Prize of food" has been given to three biotech pioneers -- including an executive from Monsanto ...
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Biotechnology must remain part of EU-US trade negotiations

John Reifsteck | 
Biotech crops are a sticking point in free-trade negotiations between the US and European Union ...
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The organic hepatitis outbreak: We need organic field testing

Mischa Popoff | 
A recent outbreak of hepatitis A infections from the consumption of organic frozen berries highlights the problem with the organic ...
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The impatient optimism of GM crops and food security

Jonas Kathage | 
Are GM crops needed to feed the world? That's not the right question to ask ...
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GM foods grow up

Eliza Strickland, Samuel K. Moore | 
Critics of transgenic crops often focus on the seemingly unnatural act of adding something new and alien to a plant's ...
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Comedian Dusty Smith gores GMO critics and anti-Monsanto junkies

Dusty Smith | 
Comedian-critic Dusty Smith rails against common misconceptions surrounding GM crops and Monsanto's business practices ...
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“GMOs make pigs sick” paper avoids rigorous analysis

David Tribe | 
New research claiming GM foods hurt pigs is more fishing expedition than proper science ...
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Nature Biotechnology analysis lashes French politicians for feeding anti-biotech fever

Jon Entine | 
In March 2012, the French government issued an emergency ban on a GM strain of corn “to protect the environment." ...
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Monsanto wins defense against organic farmers’ lawsuit over seed contamination

Carey Gillam | 
Monsanto Co. won another round in a legal battle with U.S. organic growers as an appeals court threw out the ...

Genetic modification and the fate of sustainable fish farming

Marc Gunther | 
Whole Foods's refusal to stock salmon fed with GM yeast may stifle technology that delivers environmental benefits ...
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Being Gilles-Eric Seralini: Inside the mind of the anti-GM movement

Jon Entine | 
Anti-GM activists live trapped in their own heads; All they can see and hear are their own slogans and conspiracy ...
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