Is campaign against glyphosate using misinformation to spread message?

Sean Sparling | 
. . . [W]hen did it become totally acceptable for groups who oppose anything . . . to routinely spread spurious information ...
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War in Europe—Battle over glyphosate

Andrew Porterfield | 
The battle over glyphosate rages on in Europe, creating a lot of question marks over whether the popular herbicide will ...
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New Zealand’s EPA finds glyphosate ‘unlikely to be carcinogenic’

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) commissioned Dr Wayne Temple, a toxicologist and former Director of the New Zealand National Poisons ...
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Blind precaution: Europe’s obsession with Precautionary Principle blocks agricultural innovation

David Zaruk | 
The EU has created a regulatory jungle, chocking agricultural innovation, by depending on the non-science based precautionary principle ...
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‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’ back, as Facebook lifts block: Neidenbach on home planting of GMOs

What happens if you grow GMO crops in your home garden? ...
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EU’s new glyphosate restrictions enforced differently throughout Europe

Glyphosate use in parks and public spaces in the UK is likely to be little affected by a recent EU ...
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Rogue GMO wheat in Washington State? Latest anti-GMO attempt to pump scare fizzles

Val Giddings | 
Unnecessary anti-GMO panic highlights bankruptcy of current crop agricultural regulatory system ...

Video: Implications of Brexit on glyphosate regulation in U.K.

Tom Heap | 
Tom Heap reports on the use of Glyphosate, a herbicide used for crops, where an ever-growing call to ban it, ...

Is precautionary principle in pesticide, GMO regulation making EU import dependent?

David Zaruk | 
The EU’s use of the precautionary principle on agricultural technologies is a bad, broken compass. How far lost are we? ...
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Global trade treaties on firing line: Cartagena Protocol, relic of earlier era promoting GMO fears

Andrew Porterfield | 
The Cartagena Protocol, started with the best intentions, may be out of date ...

Glyphosate controversy never about science but rather ‘activist’s war on Big Ag’

André Heitz | 
. . . [W]hat exactly makes glyphosate such a controversial issue? One must look no further than the . ...
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Do GMOs risk “unintended” health or environmental consequences, as critics maintain?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Concerns about unintended consequences, the backbone of criticism from anti-GMO activists, are actually more likely to occur in traditionally bred ...

German farmers plant ‘chemical-free’ demonstration plots to educate public about glyphosate

Warwick Long | 
Glyphosate. . . is heavily used by farmers to clear fields of weeds . . . In 2015, a report found the ...

Oregon winemaker say organic vineyards not sustainable

“Organic practices have bred a class 11 resistant powdery  mildew (PM) critter. OSU sent out a bulletin saying if you ...
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GMO wheat, unapproved for commercialization, found growing in Washington state

Genetically modified wheat developed by Monsanto Co, and never approved by federal regulators, has been found growing in a Washington ...

EPA to hold October public meeting on its evaluation of glyphosate

There will be a 4-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) to ...

EPA criticized for ignoring its own scientists’ findings that glyphosate isn’t carcinogenic

Jenny Hopkinson | 
. . . . Following the EPA’s notice in the Federal Register that it was seeking nominations for an expert panel ...
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EU approves imports of three new GMO soybean varieties for animal feeds

Kelvin Heppner | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The European Union has ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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Monsanto’s latest herbicide-resistant GMO soybeans face regulatory delays at home, abroad

Nat Williams | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Soybean growers looking to ...
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Glyphosate found in 100% of wines tested in California–Reason for concern?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Just because we can now discover trace levels of a pesticide like glyphosate doesn't mean those levels are toxic ...
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Fitness and health expert: 10 science-based reasons why I’m thankful for GMOs

Maria Brilaki | 
Some vocal opponents of GMO foods are in the fitness community. There is a perceived belief that engineered foods pose ...

When Colombia ended aerial spraying of glyphosate, cultivation of cocaine crop surged

Cesar Garcia, Joshua Goodman | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After six straight years ...
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