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Plant geneticist Kevin Folta: University of California-San Francisco teams with anti-biotech activists attacking independent scientists

Kevin Folta | Medium | 
The University of California at San Francisco has compiled a database of documents claimed to shine a bright light on ...
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Despite controversial new study, there’s still no evidence Monsanto’s Roundup causes cancer, epidemiologist says

Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz | Medium | 
News stories have exploded recently.... screaming that glyphosate [the active ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup] is a cancer-causing evil that causes a 41% increase in people ...
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Viewpoint: Bernie Sanders’ views on alternative medicine and GMOs highlight troubling embrace of pseudoscience

Medium | 
At 76 years old many assumed that 2016 would be the last time Bernie Sanders would run for office. The ...
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Viewpoint: How the Organic Trade Association flunked Science 101—No, organics are not ‘chemical free’

Medium | 
I recently had an encounter on Twitter with the CEO of the Organic Trade Association (OTA), Laura Batcha. The OTA ...
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Could open source indoor farming help us feed 10 billion people?

Corby Kummer | Medium | 
Paul Gauthier, a plant physiologist at Princeton University, took a short drive up the New Jersey Turnpike to try to ...
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GMO crops and herbicides: A ‘win-win’ for farmers and the environment, plant scientist Wayne Parrott says

Wayne Parrott | Medium | 
A fertile soil is a microbial wonderland .... a tiny ecosystem too small to see with our eyes. Yet, the ...
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Viewpoint: DNA fitness test claims are ‘misleading’

Markham Heid | Medium | 
The sales pitch is compelling: By revealing the secrets locked inside your DNA, genetic testing can optimize your workout gains ...
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This mom and gardener doesn’t fear glyphosate—and says we shouldn’t either

Amber Boas | Medium | 
One of the perpetual battles I’m fighting these days is countering the misinformation about pesticides that gardeners like me responsibly ...
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Plant scientist Kevin Folta: Claims about glyphosate in orange juice are ‘brilliantly devious’

Kevin Folta | Medium | 
Since 2013 the science communication community and wacky food activists learned something important — you can fill a table with creepy numbers, ...
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Why are strawberries so big? The genetics behind ‘up-sizing’ fruits and vegetables

Celine Caseys | Medium | 
Once upon a time, there was a land where food was not guaranteed everyday. Children were searching woods to pick ...
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Chasing the mysterious polio-like disorder striking children

Bryson Masse | Medium | 
A runny nose or cough are normal symptoms during the fall, but this year doctors in the United States and ...
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Non-GMO labels mislead everybody, but may hurt poor people the most, nutritionist claims

Ruth MacDonald | Medium | 
Non-GMO labels on foods are popping up on grocery store shelves all over the US. These labels are intended to ...
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Is organic produce hazardous to your health?

Medium | 
We’ve all heard the reports. Toxic organic pesticides cause problems for the environment. Organic pesticides are linked to Parkinson’s Disease, ...
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Viewpoint: Challenging the hypocrisy of GMO critic Carey Gillam

Medium | 
Carey Gillam is a former journalist for Reuters, and is currently the research director for US Right to Know (US ...
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6 things agroecology can do for farming and the environment

Medium | 
Agroecology has returned to the global spotlight, as one approach to bring farmers closer to meeting challenges [like rising food ...
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Why are all Roundup-cancer lawsuits filed in the US?

Michael Stiles | Medium | 
The unique conditions present in the U.S. led to the filing of more than 8,000 court claims alleging the use ...
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Viewpoint: Consumers Union calls Zen Honeycutt ‘a loon,’ but still promotes her anti-GMO message

Medium | 
Michael Hansen is a senior scientist for Consumers Union, the consumer advocacy group that publishes Consumer Reports. He has also been fighting ...
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Biotech crops could soften impact of climate change, Gates Foundation says

Nick Austin | Medium | 
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) just released its 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the ...
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Lessons learned from Twitter GMO debates with David Crosby and other celebrities

Medium | 
When we are passionate about a topic, it is natural for us to become overly emotional when someone gets it ...
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What is a GMO? That’s a question with many answers

Medium | 
Nothing seems to upset those arguing about GMOs more than debating the definition of the term “GMO” itself. Most proponents ...
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Viewpoint: Trying to make smart food choices? Ignore what celebrities say about GMOs

Michael Stebbins | Medium | 
Studies have confirmed that people are more likely to believe celebrities and politicians over scientists when it comes to medical advice ...
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Former Monsanto CTO Robb Fraley: Here’s why GMO labels deceive consumers

Robb Fraley | Medium | 
Imagine that some enterprising souls in the U.S. decide one day that shoes are bad, and begin drumming up support and ...
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Viewpoint: Stonyfield Organic enlisted ‘rapid response team’ of academics to ‘scare people’ about GMOs

Medium | 
2015 was the peak of the GMO labeling debate. Bills were being thrown around at both the state and federal ...
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Impossible Foods exec: Environmentalist opponents are on ‘wrong side of history’

Rachel Konrad | Medium | 
For more than a year, the nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth (FOE) has been trying to malign and defame ...
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Impossible Foods: Friends of the Earth is ‘anti-science fundamentalist’ group

Rachel Konrad | Medium | 
For more than a year, the non-governmental organization Friends of the Earth (FOE) has been trying to malign and defame ...
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Viewpoint: How the organic industry spreads ‘fake science’

Medium | 
This fact sheet describes the contents of an organic industry confidential public relations plan to spread fake science in its ...
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Can the Impossible Burger reverse the anti-GMO trend?

Stephen Lamb | Medium | 
With today’s environment of anti-GMO fearmongering, marketing, and mandatory labeling, who would have guessed that there would be so many think pieces on Impossible’s White Castle launch with hardly any mention of the ...
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Viewpoint: 6 reasons to reject the Environmental Working Group’s misinformation on food and pesticides

Kevin Folta | Medium | 
1. It creates a false sense of food risk where next to none exists. They are not a testing organization. They ...
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