Consumer paradox: As media turn less negative on genetically modified crops, Canadian consumers remain ambivalent about innovative food products

Consumer paradox: As media turn less negative on genetically modified crops, Canadian consumers remain ambivalent about innovative food products

Canadians have high trust in Canada’s food safety system, but not new food products Gauging consumer attitudes to genetically modified ...
How plant breeding innovations are helping feed a hungry world

How plant breeding innovations are helping feed a hungry world

As of 2019, nearly 26% of the globe’s population “experienced hunger or did not have regular” access to safe and ...
Farm student addresses concerns raised about GMO crops and food

Farm student addresses concerns raised about GMO crops and food

As the population continues to grow, more and more people are living in urban areas that lack, or do not ...
Wide gap between Canadians’ beliefs about biotech crop safety and the science

Wide gap between Canadians’ beliefs about biotech crop safety and the science

Consumer opinions, perspectives and views on food and its production do not necessarily reflect what is occurring. For instance, we ...
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Viewpoint: Rush to develop COVID vaccine highlights failure of Europe’s GM crop regulations

In a recent article of mine published in the journal, Global Food Security, I highlight the EU’s reluctance to move ...
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Spillover effect: Could GMO disinformation shake public trust in other scientific innovations?

In 2016, the World Economic Forum listed online digital misinformation as one of the leading threats to modern societies. Campaigns ...
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Viewpoint: ‘It’s. Not. The. Cow. Farts.’ Burger King pulls ‘Cows Menu’ climate change ad

You’ve probably seen Burger King’s latest marketing video featuring Wal-Mart yodeler Mason Ramsey singing about methane emissions from cow farts ...
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Science majors less skeptical of GMOs than other undergraduates? Yes, but not by much

For the past few years, I’ve been fortunate to supervise a number of students working on their undergraduate thesis in ...
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Global access to education is growing. Here’s how GMO crops might be helping

One of the consistent benefits of GM crop adoption has been a higher farm and household income. In an assessment ...
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Plant breeders rapidly adopting gene editing to commercialize more high-yielding crops

It would be inaccurate to say that plant breeders in Canada are ‘a dime a dozen’. A rough estimate places ...
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Corporate farms vs small family farms: Is one operation better than the other?

There is an ongoing debate in the agriculture industry between small family farms and large corporate farms. The controversy between ...
Viewpoint: How GMO herbicide-tolerant canola accelerated sustainable farming

Viewpoint: How GMO herbicide-tolerant canola accelerated sustainable farming

Who would have fathomed how significant a day in March 1995 would become in the history of Canadian agriculture? On ...
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GMO herbicide-tolerant canola increased Canadian farm profits $233 million, saved consumers $26 million

Many think that the developers of new technologies are the ones who gain virtually all of the benefits, with consumers ...
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Viewpoint: Europe’s strict GMO crop cultivation rules encourage Amazon deforestation

EU based anti-GMO environmental organizations have ensured that European farmers don’t have access to leading agronomic technologies, resulting in less ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Political populism’ dictates Europe’s bureaucratic anti-GMO crop rules

As individuals, we’re able to decide whether a single action is acceptable to us, or deemed to be too risky ...
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Viewpoint: Japan and South Korea’s bans on Canadian wheat over GMOs is ‘political stunt’ to lower prices

In mid-June 2018, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) reported that a few GM wheat plants had been detected in southern ...

Australia’s GMO canola ban was huge loss for farmers, environment

[Canadian] farmers started growing GM canola in 1997. By 2004, 75% of canola farmers in Canada were growing GM varieties. After a decade ...

Is Post Foods using non-GMO labeling to ‘scam customers’?

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. At this time, I’d ...
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