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How Berkeley-led academics conspired with anti-GMO groups to attack Food Evolution movie

Emails show the Pesticide Action Network, Center for Food Safety, and Friends of the Earth helped write and promote a ...
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Kevin Folta: ‘Berkeley 45’ has opportunity to rethink ‘activist aided’ attack on Food Evolution movie

Kevin Folta | 
[Editor’s note: Kevin Folta is a molecular biologist and chair of the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida.] The release of ...
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5 ways the food industry can earn consumer trust for gene-edited foods

Charlie Arnot | 
[Editor's note: Charlie Arnot is CEO of the Center for Food Integrity.] Trust research from The Center for Food Integrity ...
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‘Ebola of plants’: Can gene sequencing save tropical food staple cassava from whitefly-borne virus?

Kieron Monks | 
Almost a billion people around the world rely on cassava as a staple food. The root vegetable is a versatile ...
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Viewpoint: Organic industry faces credibility crisis as USDA investigates ‘phony’ imports

Julie Kelly | 
Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods, the grocer that brought pricey organic food to the masses, comes during a time of ...
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Organic water? Asarasi exploits loophole to get USDA-certified label on bottles

Carly Ledbetter | 
Much like asparagus water and water sommeliers, organic water is giving us pause. Though the concept isn’t new, it’s surprising to see it making ...
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Indian agricultural scientist: ‘Gene revolution’ needed to feed growing population

[Editor's note: The following is a Q&A with Vasanth Kumar Thimakapura, an internationally-recognised agriculture scientist and social entrepreneur who runs Green ...
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Monoculture: Do intensive farming and GMOs really threaten biodiversity?

Iida Ruishalme | 
Many critics claim GMOs increase the practice of monoculture cropping, but is this accurate? Does intensive farming damage our land ...
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Milk without cows, eggs without chickens? Synthetic biology could lead to more sustainable food

Hannes Sjoblad, Sonya Diehn | 
[Editor's note: The following is a Q&A with Swedish bio-hacker Hannes Sjoblad.] Bio-hacking applies technology in innovative ways to modify biological systems ...
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Sen. Pat Roberts: ‘Uncertainty and dysfunction have overtaken’ USDA organic program

Peter Whoriskey | 
The far-reaching difficulty that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has in determining whether imported “organic” food meets standards or is ...
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How ‘pollinator entrepreneurs’ helped stave off ‘beepocalypse’

Shawn Regan | 
[Editor's note: Shawn Regan is a research fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC) in Bozeman, Montana.] Despite ...
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Scientists skeptical EU neonicotinoid ban would help bees

Simon Marks | 
As the EU prepares to rule on extending a ban on neonicotinoid pesticides, a large-scale study opened the door for industry to argue ...
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CRISPR food is coming: How gene editing will change agriculture

Jon Markman | 
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil. This is the promise of ...
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Opinion: Think twice before purchasing products with the ‘fake news’-spreading Non-GMO Project label

Randy Krotz | 
[Editor's note: Randy Krotz is CEO of the US Farmers & Ranchers Alliance.] I am increasingly finding items that are labeled ...
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Uganda’s ag minister: Opposition to GMOs means ‘telling people to remain poor’

Isaac Khisa | 
The Uganda government says it is determined to ensure that the Biotech Bill is passed into law to facilitate safe development ...
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Black Death: Was the plague actually good for the environment?

Maddie Stone | 
From 1347 to 1351, a nightmare disease ravaged Europe, afflicting victims with putrid black boils, fevers, vomiting, and in short order, ...
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Garbage? Study challenges claim that Americans waste $165 billion of food each year

Joe Fassler | 
Say you’re a journalist, and you’ve been assigned a story about food waste. You’re on a deadline, and you need ...
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Lesson from debate over Food Evolution movie? ‘Doesn’t make sense to judge GMOs as a monolithic entity’

Jenny Splitter | 
[Marion] Nestle told The Outline that her comments in the film were taken “out of context” because its narrow focus on the ...
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Biotech industry urges USDA to overhaul ‘outdated’ crop biotechnology regulations

[The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)] is proposing a regulatory program in which ...
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USDA approves first release of GE diamondback moths, in New York cabbage fields

Steve Davies | 
A proposal to release genetically engineered diamondback moths in cabbage fields in upstate New York has received a green light ...
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Fully sequenced rice genome could accelerate biofuel research

Rice is a staple food for over half of the world's population and a model for studies of candidate bioenergy ...
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Activists attack humanitarian ‘GMO’ corn shipment to Haiti — but seeds aren’t genetically engineered

Kevin Folta | 
The Non-GMO Project attacked the government of Haiti for approving a humanitarian shipment of high-yield conventional corn, claiming the seeds ...
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Talking Biotech: Benefits and unanticipated consequences of neonicotinoid insecticide use

John Tooker | 
Penn State entomologist John Tooker: Neonic coated seeds are not a silver bullet for pest control in all situations ...
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Transgenic fish are ready for us. Are we ready for them?

Eric Bender | 
After overcoming two decades of regulatory and legal challenges, AquaBounty now faces the ultimate tests as it prepares for the ...
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Hawaiian GMO farmer on Food Evolution doc: Saving papaya from extinction is not ‘propaganada’

Joni Kamiya | 
[Editor's note: Joni Kamiya is a family farmer growing GMO papaya on Hawaii's North Shore.] The [GMO] papaya works, it ...
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Lead author of controversial bee study: ‘Don’t give up on neonics’ although they may have ‘subtle’, mitigable effects

Ben Woodcock | 
[Editor's note: Ben Woodcock is an ecological entomologist at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the UK. He is the ...
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Glyphosate herbicide may alter ecosystem by increasing tadpole population

[A] common herbicide has turned out to be a boon for tadpoles making them more toxic to predators, researchers said.... Common ...
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