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Did Bill Nye, the anti-GMO guy, just flip? After visiting Monsanto? Stay tuned

Keith Kloor | 
The 'Science Guy' has not yet announced how his views about GMOs have changed--he has been a skeptic for years--but ...
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China’s rejection of GMO “contaminated” alfalfa–Biotech failure or global politics?

Amber Sherwood | 
In 2014, China rejected imports of alfalfa from the US that contained trace amounts of GE material. Activists reacted with ...
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Can GM technology promote sustainable salmon farming?

Rebecca Randall | 
Can biotechnology overcome the stigma manufactured by activists to provide solutions for a sustainable seafood movement? Is the sustainability movement ...
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Owen Paterson: ‘Anti-GMO stance of Green Blob, Greenpeace condemn poor to starvation, death

Owen Patterson | 
Former UK environment secretary goes on the attack against what he says are modern Luddites: Greenpeace and the ministers of ...
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VIDEO: Are GM foods dangerous? Renowned science reporter takes on anti-GMO fundamentalists

Peter Hadfield | 
The British YouTube rationalist and renowned ex-BBC Radio 4 and CBC science reporter with a degree in geology debunks pseudoscience, ...
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What do off-patent GM soybeans say about possibilities of open source biotech?

Rebecca Randall | 
As Monsanto's patent on GM soybeans expires this spring, where does this leave the conversation over corporate control in the ...
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Where’s the beef (and fat)? Are you ready for a juicy ‘test tube’ burger?

David Warmflash | 
Lab created beef offers the possibility of ending the breeding of livestock for slaughter--and the ability to produce in vitro ...
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OMG! GMO! In Froot Loops! Reason for concern, but not about cereal

Arthur Doucette | 
GMO Free USA has mounted a boycott against food companies for harmless trace levels of chemicals found in some of ...
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Food Babe plays race, sexist shill cards from “Deck of Deflection”

Kavin Senapathy | 
Vani Hari's new book attacking chemicals and GMOs in food is a roaring sales success. But that hasn't stopped critics ...
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Deoxyribonucleic acid, it’s fantastic! A Presidents Day rap

Intimidated by genetics? Maybe music is the cure ...
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Mother Jones’s missed opportunity to reverse GMO safety consensus denialism

A year ago, Mother Jones published a balanced report on crop biotechnology, embracing the global consensus that GMOs are safe--a ...
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Zero tolerance policies on GMO “contamination” hurt organic and conventional farmers alike

Rebecca Randall | 
Neighboring organic farmers and GMO farmers struggle to coexist amid fears of gene flow through cross pollination. Yet agricultural scientists ...
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Mimicking Climategate, anti-GMO activists fund legal attack on biotech academics

Keith Kloor | 
US Right to Know, funded mostly by organic activists, is using the Freedom of Information Act to target scientists it ...
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The Original Frankenfoods: Origins of Our Fear of Genetic Engineering

Aneela Mirchandani | 
The anti-GMO community has gotten a lot of propaganda mileage out of demonizing GM crops as Frankenstein's creation. GLP guest ...
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Rethinking “pro-GMO” and “anti-GMO” labels

Becca Harrison | 
Journalists and commentators often use the terms "anti-GMO" and "pro-GMO" as shorthand to guide the reader through ideological thickets. But ...
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Will Tanzania follow Burkina Faso in embracing GM crops to fight ravaging diseases?

Isaac Ongu | 
There is a groundswell of popular support for crop biotechnology among African farmers, with Uganda and Burkina Faso the most ...
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Anti-GMO sociologists mute attacks on biotech, urge greater sensitivity to cultural impacts

Amber Sherwood | 
At the National Research Council's public webinar on GM crops, three sociologists, known for their concerns about the cultural impact ...
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Is there a future for eco-friendly genetically engineered fish and animals? Maybe not.

David Warmflash | 
Animal biotech has been stifled by political opposition. Could technological advances that move away from classic genetic engineering to novel ...
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Call for action: It’s time to March Against the March Against Monsanto

Karl Haro von Mogel, Kavin Senapathy | 
March Against Monsanto has evolved into a cultural event symbolizing the most strident and scientifically questionable side of the anti-technology ...
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African elites blame early puberty on GMOs, sabotaging nutrition-enhanced cassava, matooke

Isaac Ongu | 
It is fashionable in Africa to blame everyinexplicable heath condition on genetic engineered food. It's part of a campaign organized ...
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Scientific consensus on GMO safety stronger than for global warming, PEW research center finds

Jon Entine, Rebecca Randall | 
Scientists blame the media and the lack of quality K-12 STEM education for large differences between public opinion and scientific ...
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GLP radio interview: Girl Scouts refuse to bow to activist pressure to go non-GMO

Jon Entine | 
On Agri-Talk radio, GLP's Jon Entine discusses the Girl Scouts' decision to rebuff anti-GMO activists who are demanding they remove ...
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Pests invade Europe after neonicotinoids ban, with no benefit to bee health

Rebecca Randall | 
The neonics ban in Europe may be backfiring as farmers turn topesticides that had been phased out because of potentially ...
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Indian Eco-Goddess Vandana Shiva, charging $40,000 a speech, takes anti-GMO crusade to Hawaii

Jon Entine | 
"What could be more basic to freedom than food freedom and food democracy?” declared Indian anti-GMO activist megastar Vandana Shiva ...
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GMO Myth: Farmers “drown” crops in “dangerous” glyphosate. Fact: They use eye droppers

Dave Walton | 
Anti-GMO activists and even some media reports claim that farmers growing GM crops "douse" their fields in "dangerous chemicals," glyphosate ...
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Will “non natural” synbio dairy products face same skepticism as GMOs?

Rebecca Randall | 
Dairy-free genetically modified milk and cheese products could appeal to vegans' environmental sensibilities. But they also face pushback over concerns ...
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Forget GMOs: Surgeon General has determined that DNA is dangerous to your health!

Jon Entine | 
OMG! Deoxyribonucleic acid risks contaminating all of our food. Where is Gary Hirshberg when we REALLY need him! Just Label ...
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