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New York Times unresponsive to scientists’ criticism of Danny Hakim’s error-filled article on GMO ‘failures’
The New York Times has conducted a decades-long vendetta against the ... techniques of genetic engineering applied to agriculture. Bias and inaccuracy ...
Mystery of meteors: Building blocks of life remain elusive
Three of the five nucleobases --- molecular subcomponents of information-bearing nucleotides which make up our genetic code --- likely came ...
Anti-GMO groups exploiting liberal fear of President-elect Trump
“It’s time to fight,” reads the subject line of an email from the organic-funded Just Label It campaign.... The fight? ...
If nutrition is focus, GMO and organic foods can both deliver results
Passionate views on GMO, conventional and organic farming dominate food-related news and social media. But I rarely see nutrition mentioned, ...
Alternative medicine, supplement promoters selling pseudo-science ‘genetic-based’ treatments
Alternative practitioners are now forging highly profitable businesses based on patients coming to them with raw genetic data provided by ...
Millennials’ demand for organics ripples through supply chain
Co-packers should be concerned, along with distributors, farmers and even, heck, grain elevator operators. Their worlds are incrementally turning upside ...
Bioethicists should “get out of the way” of groundbreaking germline-altering research
As psychiatrist and American Enterprise Institute scholar Dr. Sally Satel has written, there are indeed complex and difficult questions in ...
Rift between realists and idealists in food movement threatens to undermine it
When acclaimed food reform writer, Michael Pollan, recently published a lengthy article critical of the Obama food reform legacy, he exposed a ...
Conflating GMOs with Monsanto stifles development of new, innovative biotech crops from smaller companies
Conflating “GMOs” with Monsanto creates a crude narrative and regulatory quagmire that stifles innovation, discouraging smaller entities from developing and ...
Voice of the Farmers event counterpoint to faux Monsanto tribunal
The [activist-organized, mock 'Monsanto Tribunal'] isn’t about Monsanto at all, but about stifling tools like genetic engineering, and agricultural chemicals ...
No, you did not inherit your intelligence from your mother’s genes
The premise of [a post from Second Nexus is] that science has traced “intelligence genes” to the X chromosome and ...
‘Advocacy research’ tying neonicotinoids to bee deaths debunked, but still effective propaganda
...[A] worrisome... trend is the increasing frequency of articles containing flawed “advocacy research” that is actually designed to give a false result. This ...
Are GMO labels ‘a Trojan horse for big government intervention’ in our food supply?
Mark Bittman, the former New York Times food writer... is baaaaack–with a Times op-ed titled,“GMO Labeling Law Could Stir a Revolution.” . ...
FDA pondering whether ‘natural’ claims are meaningless
So what does “natural” mean? Nobody knows. Dozens of class-action lawsuits have been filed claiming that the term is used ...
US regulations creating confusion for regulation of GMO mosquitos
The number of [Zika] cases in the United States is continuing to increase, as are the known modes of transmission...One ...
Human hair protein may replace DNA as key forensics tool
DNA analysis as a way to identify unknown individuals is useful in both forensic anthropology and bioarchaeology, but only if ...
‘SkinGun’ sprays stem cells to heal burns and wounds
An experimental treatment that sprays on your own stem cells to treat second degree burns...is one of the latest trends ...
GMO labeling fight was between factions of food industry, not industry vs. consumer
[R]oughly 90% of survey respondents support mandatory GMO labeling. Consumers want to know. But the typical response when consumers want ...
Anti-GMO crusader Jeffrey Smith: ‘Labeling GMOs was never the end goal it was a tactic to get them banned’
Because “public-interest” groups cloak themselves with the feel-good mantle of protecting consumers, the environment, animals, etc., the motives of such ...
Preponderance of field studies and latest research still concludes bees not disappearing
Bees are in the news, . . . mainly, dire tales of disappearing bees threatening a third of our food supply. ...
How USDA defines GMOs will determine if mandatory labeling is a success
The problem with the debate is that it is a very scientific and complex issue that most laymen just don’t understand. . ...
Organic industry bitterly split over newly signed GMO label law
“Organic Traitors Team Up with Monsanto and [Grocery Manufacturers Association] on DARK Act,” reads a recent headline from Ronnie Cummins, director of the ...
Federal court appears likely to preempt Hawaiian counties’ GMO ordinances
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On June 15, 2016, ...
‘Mama Monsanto’ video attempts to pass off misinformation as comedy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s hard to tell ...
Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen pesticide food list designed to promote organics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In an [Environmental Working ...
Scotts Miracle-Gro glyphosate-resistant GMO grass utilizes less fertilizers, grows twice as fast
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Scientists inside Scotts Miracle-Gro ...
Does over-regulation of GMOs stymie development, reduce competition?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our regulatory experience over ...
IARC’s reassessment of coffee illustrates problems with its process, messaging
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . [B]y ...
