Ugandan ruling party greenlights vitamin A enhanced GMO “super bananas”

Michael Arseneault | 
Uganda's ruling party has approved a bill that will give the green light to super bananas and other genetically modified ...

Panera latest consumer-senstive food company to ditch controversial ingredients

Robin Shreeves | 
I think 2015 will go down as the year that food manufacturers and restaurants started ditching ingredients based on consumer ...

After breeding non-allergenic soybean over 10 years ago, researchers achieve conventionally bred version

Raymond Sanchez | 
In the United States, nearly 15 million people and one in 13 children suffer from food allergy. Soybeans are one of ...

Panera creates ‘no-no’ ingredient list in response to consumer demand

Stephanie Strom | 
In doing so, Panera Bread will join the growing ranks of food companies and restaurants that have announced plans to eliminate a ...

Why Chipotle’s GMO-free move got so much backlash

Marc Brazeau | 
The last few days at Chipotle HQ could not have been much fun for the people running the marketing and ...
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Playing God? Many faiths agree that tinkering with genes is out of bounds

Jonathan Frochtzwajg | 
Last fall, at the peak of the contentious, expensive fight over Oregon’s ballot measure to label genetically engineered foods, about ...

Food industry group appealing latest Vermont GMO labeling ruling

John Herrick | 
Grocery and food industry groups will appeal a recent federal court ruling that allowed Vermont’s GMO labeling law to go ...
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Doctor Is In: Despite evidence of GMO safety, this doctor still skeptical

David Samadi | 
Chipotle announced plans this week to stop serving foods made with genetically modified ingredients — after being the first corporate ...

Millennials drive fast food to change: From non-GMO to antibiotic-free pledges

Cristina Maza | 
Millennials across the country are more aware of their food than ever before, from seeking out farmers markets to fill ...

One baboon gene could vastly improve lives of millions of African farmers

Tamar Haspel | 
With one gene, molecular geneticist Steve Kemp may someday be able to boost the success of small farms across a huge swath of ...

New Jersey Senator Cory Booker irritates Twitter followers for being pro GM labeling

Cory Booker has a lot of fans among progressives — not just in New Jersey, but across the country. His ...

Chipotle’s move toward GMO-free supply chain will raise prices for consumers

Darren Tristano | 
Chipotle Mexican Grill and Panera Bread for years have led the fast-casual restaurant segment, and their moves away from genetically modified ...

Antibiotic use in livestock may pose health threat to farm workers

Maryn McKenna | 
A new study by the researcher who has done the most to pin down the presence of “pig MRSA” in the United States ...

Rapid DNA test identifies bacteria that can spoil beer, wine

Josh Lowensohn | 
Something very simple can throw that flavor off before most types of beer are even bottled, and cause further troubles ...

USDA advances approval of another GM potato, with lower sugar and blight resistance

USDA moved another variety of genetically engineered potatoes developed by J.R. Simplot Company forward in its approval process, the agency ...

Biofortifying rice with folate could prevent birth defects

Bolstering rice with a gene to produce more folate, or vitamin B9, could ward off birth defects, according to a ...

Farmers choose seeds, not corporations

For years now, there has been a myth going around the internet about how farmers seed options have been growing ...
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Pamela Ronald profile: Organic farming and GMOs can be ‘bedfellows’

Jeremy Berlin | 
Pamela Ronald is a plant pathologist and geneticist—a professor at the University of California, Davis whose lab has isolated genes from ...

Mythbusting: Little understood facts to calm chemophobia

Mark Lorch | 
All too often the use of the word “chemicals” in the news, in advertising and in common usage has the implication ...

Why is mainstream media promoting ‘quack’ anti-GMO book?

Michael Phillips | 
Anna Medaris Miller, writing for U. S. News and World report, gives what I hope was unintended free advertising to ...

Farmer and consumer cost of delaying approval of single GM trait estimated at $19 billion

A new white paper shows that a three-year postponement in global approval of biotech-enhanced soybean traits any time in the ...

USDA organics chief silent on whether organic is safer, healthier

Peter Whoriskey | 
Are consumers right to think that organic food is safer and healthier? It seems like a straightforward question, especially for ...

In debate over organic or conventional, is there third way to feed growing, warming world?

Caroline Scott-Thomas | 
Proponents of organic agriculture say it leads to better soil management, uses fewer pesticides and fertilisers, and is a better ...
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Soon-to-be marriages in Big Ag: Monsanto-Syngenta? Dupont-Dow?

Brooke Sutherland | 
A combination of Monsanto Co. and Syngenta AG would set the stage for even more mergers and acquisitions. Monsanto has ...
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USDA rebukes EPA for claiming neonics provide no ‘clear’ farmer benefits

Robert Johansson | 
During a public comment period for a review of the use of neonicotinoids by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Robert ...
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Rules force British organic farmers to use homeopathic remedies on their animals

Sarah Knapton | 
British organic farmers are being forced to treat their livestock with homeopathic remedies under European Commission rules branded ‘scientifically illiterate’ ...
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Organic board busts ‘no synthetic pesticides’ myth, okays new herbicides and fungicides

Peter Whoriskey | 
You might think the USDA "organic" label is reserved for foods produced without any man-made chemicals. But under government rules, "organic" ...
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