Food companies need to ditch defensive strategy and launch positive campaign about GM crops’ merits

Elaine Watson | 
If biotech’s big guns want to seize the initiative in the GMO debate, they should ditch their defensive strategy (telling ...

Small-scale African farmer calls for Kenya to lift ban on GMOs

Gilbert Arap Bor | 
United States President Barack Obama’s ringing endorsement of biotechnology in agriculture has the potential to inspire hearts and minds in ...

Argentine neuroscientist who challenged safety of glyphosate in Monsanto’s Roundup dies

Michael Warren | 
Dr. Andres Carrasco, an Argentine neuroscientist who challenged pesticide regulators to re-examine one of the world's most widely used weed ...
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64 countries that have GMO labeling laws

Tom McKay | 
Sixty-four nations enforce consumer "right-to-know" laws on GMO food, while the United States has little regulatory framework surrounding genetically modified ...

Readers react to Los Angeles Times’ editorial pointing out flaws in California’s GMO labeling bill

The Times points out many of the flaws in legislation (SB 1381) proposed in the California Senate that would require ...

Busting organic myth: Pesticide residues widely present in organic foods

Steve Savage | 
There are several different reasons people are willing to pay more for organic produce, but many consumers do so believing that it ...

Pakistan needs strong regulatory system and neutral biosafety committee for GM crops

Jamal Shahid | 
The country is heading for commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops, in the absence of a strong regulatory system, trained ...

Ghana Public Health Association calls for toxicological tests on GMOs before reaching market

The Ghana Public Health Association (GPHA) has called for detailed transparent toxicological tests on all Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) before ...

Frosty response to Arctic Apples from Canadian grocers

Jeremy Nuttall | 
The genetically modified Arctic Apple is expected to get a frosty response from some grocery stores across the province if ...

Northeast Dairy Foods Association criticizes Vermont leaders for ‘acting rashly’ on GMO labeling

The recent signing of the food-labeling bill by Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is unfortunate on many levels. Gov. Shumlin had ...
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Mark Lynas provides photo proof disputing failure of Bangladesh Bt brinjal

Mark Lynas | 
Once again media reports have emerged claiming that genetically modified pest-resistant Bt brinjal (eggplant) has failed in the field and ...

Non-GMO and organic food supplier claims GMOs not needed to feed world

Maggie Hennessy | 
For a growing global population facing dwindling resources, non-GMO plant-based proteins are the future, says 29-year-old non-GMO and organic soybean ...

Storify: Would shouting stop if GMOs were labeled?

Mary Mangan | 
Many people think that labeling GMOs is a simple bit of text. And that if we just would put something ...
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Mark Bittman’s moderation on GMOs may be too late to rescue foodies links to fear tactics

Keith Kloor | 
For GMO opponents, it’s been a good news/bad news week. The good news: Vermont became the first state to mandate the labeling ...

Progressive’s dilemma: Can Big Ag Monsanto shed it’s bad guy ‘evil’ reputation?

Bernie Mooney | 
It all used to be so easy. There were the good guys, us, and there were the bad guys, them. Then I meandered ...

GMO labeling laws would push higher costs from producers to consumers

Tamara Tabo | 
Despite the ever-growing ways that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates what Americans can consume, FDA does not currently regulate genetically ...

Public debate reignites in China following investigation of illegal GMO corn and cotton

Chuin-Wei Yap | 
A war of words in China has reignited public debate over just how far genetically modified food - still mostly ...

RNAi technology promising in developing gluten-free wheat

Kacey Culliney | 
Genetic modification of wheat genes to 'silence' protein fractions toxic to those with celiac disease holds promise for cereal development, ...

Regulatory delays and ‘Jurassic Park’ may have ruined prospects for AquaBounty GE salmon

Don Seiffert | 
The Maynard-based biotech company AquaBounty has been working to get a genetically altered salmon that grows faster than conventional, Atlantic ...
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Food Fight: Anti-GMO Friends of the Earth attacks study on deceptively marketed organic foods

Kari Hamerschlag | 
This article was written by Kari Hamerschlag, a former Latin studies major, who now works for the anti-GMO advocacy organization Friends ...

Crops deliver less nutrition with more carbon dioxide in air, biofortification in GE crops can help

Eric Roston | 
Feeding everybody in the world has always been a challenge. Feeding them well just got even tougher. Some of the ...

Big Food needs to get behind GMO labeling standard to prevent ‘hodgepodge’ of state bills

James Greiff | 
Tiny Vermont is on the verge of giving Big Food a huge headache. Late last month, the Vermont legislature passed ...

Nigeria needs to adopt latest technology in farming to achieve food sufficiency by 2015

Emmanuel Elebeke | 
The advice was that Nigerian should learn to key into world best practices by adopting the latest technology if they ...

Video: Inside Vermont’s GMO labeling controversy

Amanda Cochran | 
Vermont Gov. Peter Shumlin is expected to sign a bill on Thursday mandating the labeling of genetically modified foods. That ...

Renewed push to suspend agreement prohibiting GM crop production in Nicoya, Costa Rica

The Federation of Guanacaste Municipalities (FEMUGA – Federación de Municipalidades de Guanacaste) has requested that Nicoya’s Municipal Council suspend the ...

Vermont’s GMO labeling bill is a “mess”

Dan Flynn | 
Before most legislatures built in their own capacity for doing deep analyses of bills before they’re passed, we used to ...

Why the love for new technology in gadgets but not new technology in farming?

Andrew Campbell | 
Thinking about the March Against Monsanto, what do people do to vent their frustrations at corporations like this one? They ...
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