Viewpoint: The Europe’s anti-pesticide fearmongering continues to cripple African food security hopes

Viewpoint: The Europe’s anti-pesticide fearmongering continues to cripple African food security hopes

Jenny Luesby | 
As farmers protest across Europe, blockading cities, smashing through police barricades, and dumping manure, European politicians are falling over themselves ...
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Insect Allies: Why the Pentagon’s plan to transmit plant viruses with gene edited insects to increase climate resilience is stirring such controversy

Justice Nwafor | 
Recent investigations have illuminated controversial projects by the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), specifically the "Insect Allies" program, ...
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New Zealand considers deregulating crop gene editing, but public resistance and limited understanding of CRISPR limits acceptance

Katie Henderson | 
The potential use of genetic technologies in New Zealand’s agriculture has been a political hot potato for 25 years. But ...
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Switzerland green lights field tests on CRISPR yield-enhanced barley

Agroscope has been granted approval by the Federal Office for the Environment for a field trial with spring barley. The ...
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Food security challenged Pakistan reevaluating benefits of currently-banned GMO crops

Nida Jaffri | 
For the last two decades, Pakistan has faced several challenges, such as drought, salinity, temperature, climate change, and an increasing ...
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Viewpoint: ‘There are still some people out there screaming about gene edited crops, but that opposition is getting weaker’

Robert Arnason | 
The amount of money and human resources directed at gene edited crops is staggering, says Kevin Folta, a University of ...
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Viewpoint — Part V: ‘Ignominious’, fabricated attacks on GM crops jeopardize Africa’s food security and seed sovereignty

For two years, groups of farmers have been testing the PBR [pod borer resistant]-cowpea; they are thrilled with the product ...
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‘Texas Two-Step’ — Bayer weighs new Roundup suit strategy as costs of cancer litigation mount

Crystal Tse, Jef Feeley, Tim Loh | 
Bayer AG is weighing whether to use a controversial legal maneuver known as the Texas Two-Step bankruptcy to try to resolve ...
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Scammy food allergy test? Why the most prominent US allergy association recommends against relying on popular IgG serological panels

A test that claims to be able to diagnose food sensitivities and is commonly available is the food IgG test.  ...
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Viewpoint: Proposed Vermont bill follows New York in banning neonic pesticides — a move that lacks evidence and will hurt farmers

Bill Wirtz | 
A new bill in the Vermont House would ban the use of certain insecticides by the state’s agricultural sector. Bill ...
Viewpoint — Part IV: Anti-GM protests spread fear and ultimately protect pet industries while denying Africa opportunities to advance

Viewpoint — Part IV: Anti-GM protests spread fear and ultimately protect pet industries while denying Africa opportunities to advance

The European Union countries are the biggest importer of GM-maize and GM-soybean feed (more than 30 million tons per year); ...
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East Africa is taking a jumbled approach to approving GMO innovations in crops and pest protection

While East Africa's approach to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remains varied, Rwanda's recent biosafety law highlights the region's complex stance ...
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How are we feeding a global population that has tripled since 1940? Propelled by genetic tinkering, crop production takes up 8 to 11 times less land while maintaining yields

The impacts of climate change, particularly extreme weather events, will increase the likelihood of crop failure in the future. As ...
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Viewpoint — Part III: Claimed side-effects of GM crops from GMO corn rebuked by scientists

In their crusade against PBR-Cowpea, anti-GM activists cite articles written by Vendomes et al. (2009)... and an article published by ...
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Here are 5 new biotech ag products that consumers might fall in love with

Kristine Tome | 
After almost three decades of providing solutions to farmers’ concerns, biotech experts are now releasing and developing a new set ...
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Viewpoint: Court rulings and science are increasingly at odds when it comes to evaluating crop chemicals

Eric Sfiligoj | 
In early February, dicamba once again found itself on the wrong side of the law. A federal court in Arizona vacated EPA’s ...
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Viewpoint: Part II — Anti-GMO arguments rest entirely on botched studies

GMO food and feed have more than twenty years of safety record. During these twenty years, each day hundreds of ...
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When can plant-based foods be described as ‘meaty’? France cracks down on plant based meat claims

Flora Southey | 
In three months’ time, France will enforce a ban on the use of ‘meaty’ terminology for plant-based products ...
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Viewpoint: Part I — Behind the anti-crop biotechnology crusade in Nigeria and across Africa

Before any GM crop is released, it is intensively analysed for human, animal and environment safety. Despite their historical high ...
What role can gene editing play in neutralizing the global devastation caused by papaya viruses?

What role can gene editing play in neutralizing the global devastation caused by papaya viruses?

Saboor Bayat | 
Amidst a backdrop of devastating viral attacks on papaya crops worldwide, scientific innovation emerges as a beacon of hope. Gene ...
The dark side of convenient foods: 32 health problems from heart disease to depression are associated with ultra-processed foods, new study claims

The dark side of convenient foods: 32 health problems from heart disease to depression are associated with ultra-processed foods, new study claims

Ed Cara | 
Many studies have indicated that ultra-processed foods are uniquely bad for our health. But the authors of this latest research, published ...
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Iconic Oscar Mayer wieners will come in a plant-based version with a smoky taste later this year

Mike Snider | 
If you wish there was an Oscar Mayer wiener that was plant-based, soon there will be one ...
Nightmare germ: A look back at terrifying Mad Cow Epidemic that began in the 1980s

Nightmare germ: A look back at terrifying Mad Cow Epidemic that began in the 1980s

Ed Cara | 
One of the most existentially frightening illnesses ever to be discovered was mad cow disease, a fatal prion-spread illness that ...
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Roundup weedkiller cancer trials now trending Bayer’s way

Brendan Pierson | 
Bayer on March 5 said it won a trial in a lawsuit brought by a retired postal service worker in ...
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As a bill to ban cell-grown meat makes its way through the Florida legislature, science researchers are divided on potential consequences

Zoey Thomas | 
Legislation in states including Arizona, Alabama, Tennessee and West Virginia has emerged against cultivated meat in the last two months ...
‘This is one of the worst droughts of my lifetime’: Renewed push for insect-resistant GMO corn to ward off insect-invasions

‘This is one of the worst droughts of my lifetime’: Renewed push for insect-resistant GMO corn to ward off insect-invasions

Watipaso Mzungu | 
“This is one of the worst droughts I have ever seen in my life. I don’t know what to do,” ...
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