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Frankenfood paradox: Why are (sometimes organic) seedless watermelons — chemical-created mutants — sold without a label?
[Did] you know that seedless watermelons are genetically modified, using a toxic chemical, even though they’re considered non-GMO ? If ...
Opinion: Why the National Organic Program’s funding should be eliminated, not just cut
[Editor's note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist, and a Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He ...
CRISPR food is coming: How gene editing will change agriculture
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil. This is the promise of ...
Swedish court: Coop grocery chain ‘misled’ consumers by claiming organic food safer, healthier
The makers of the viral 2015 “Organic Effect” video, which claimed that switching to an all organic diet can eliminate ...
‘Food Evolution’ review: Film shows fear of GMOs in rich countries hurts African farmers
The Food Evolution documentary, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy and narrated by pop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, navigates ...
Could a mushroom save honey bees from Varroa mites?
What is killing honey bees? The most prevalent cause of death is due to infestation by the invasive Varroa mite, ...
Fake food news: Non-GMO Project sets standard for misleading consumers
[Editor's note: Kavin Senapathy is a freelance writer and co-author of The Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari’s Glass House.] As a ...
‘Inextricably linked’ anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements cause preventable suffering
[Editor's note: Read the GLP's recent coverage of the Organic Consumers Association's and other anti-GMO groups' links to the anti-vaccine ...
Only you: What are the odds of your unique existence?
In order for you to exist, a great many unlikely events needed to unfold in exactly the way that they ...
Nobel Laureate Sir Richard Roberts’ $4 billion dollar solution: GM moths could fight cabbage and broccoli pest, reduce insecticide use
The deadline to submit comments to the USDA on the proposed field trial of the GM diamondback moth is nearing, ...
International Monsanto Tribunal: Fake trial distracts from real food, farming problems
[Editor's note: Kavin Senapathy is an author, public speaker and science advocate.] The verdict I predicted has landed—agri-giant Monsanto has ...
Agriculture’s Big Data revolution increases efficiency, reduces food waste from farm to table
[A]bout a third of food produced is lost or wasted every year. Globally, that’s a $940 billion economic hit. Inefficiencies ...
Selling marijuana like wine: ‘Flavor’ genes identified that could lead to tastier strains
Scientists at the University of British Columbia have reportedly identified those parts of the cannabis genome which determine flavor, potentially paving ...
Non-GMO movement plagued by ‘rampant sexism’, critic says
It’s no secret that [moms are] among the most coveted demographics of the non-GMO marketing machine. Jeffrey Smith, one of ...
Is your sperm being zapped by chemicals in the environment?
Nick Kristof is an accomplished reporter...[but] when he ventures into issues relating to environmental exposures and their putative health effects, ...
Is genetic testing devolving into ‘hucksterism’?
[Editor's note: David Shaymitz is the chief medical officer of DNAnexus, a genetic data management company.] The ready availability of ...
Nestlé bucks trend, won’t add GMO labels despite activist pressure
The organic faction is back at it with its bullying tactics. This time, they're going after Nestlé. In a February ...
Decoding death: Craig Venter’s quest to uncover secret to immortality in our DNA
Craig Venter, the man in the late 1990s who, frustrated by the slow progress of the government-funded Human Genome Project, ...
5 non-GMO ‘frankenfoods’ that can carry organic label
One of the most common food myths of our time is that GMOs are “frankenfoods” while heirloom or organic varieties ...
1 cigarette ‘more carcinogenic and toxic’ than a spoonful of glyphosate pesticide
[Editor's note: Matan Shelomi is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Entomology at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical ...
GOP Congress could deploy long-standing law to repeal Obama-era FDA GMO animal biotech policies
A game-changer for regulatory reform, [the Congressional Review Act] could be a significant stimulus to job creation and economic growth ...
Non-GMO? Organic? Natural? Do food ‘buzzwords’ help consumers make healthy choices?
Picture the cereal aisle (and marvel at the fact that there is an aisle just for cereal). Next, think of ...
Were ‘activist scientists’ behind European Union neonicotinoids ban?
[Editor's note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist who was the founding director of the FDA’s Office of Biotechnology.] ...
Here’s the truth about the non-browning Arctic Apple
[Editor's note: The story is a response to a February 2, 2016, post on STAT news written by a campaigner with ...
2016 was not a good year for crop biotechnology and science
Editor's note: The piece below was written by Wayne Parrot, professor of crop science at the University of Georgia, and Val ...
Science moms: Girl Scouts ‘cave’ to anti-science protests by introducing non-GMO cookie
… The campaign to pressure the GSUSA into dropping ingredients sourced from plants engineered with modern molecular techniques, better known ...
Hunt’s slammed for ‘No GMOs in sight’ tomato marketing ploy
“No matter how far afield you look, you won’t find a single genetically modified tomato among our vines,” Hunt’s, the ...
Will Trump Administration reduce ‘unnecessary’ agricultural biotechnology regulations?
During the campaign, President-elect Trump questioned whether certain regulations were sensible, and in its transition to power the new administration ...
