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GMO Impossible beef hits 1,000 new grocery stores as plant-based meat demand surges

Jonathan Shieber |
Starting [April 17], 777 supermarkets in California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Nevada [began] stocking the Impossible Foods plant-based meat substitute ...
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COVID: Top 10 current conspiracy theories

Mark Lynas |
As the COVID-19 crisis worsens, the world also faces a global misinformation pandemic. Conspiracy theories that behave like viruses themselves ...
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Video: 30% bigger crop yields; 60% less pesticide use—The massive impact of GMO Bt insect-resistant eggplant in Bangladesh

Since entering the market in 2014, Bt brinjal [eggplant] has helped smallholder farmers in Bangladesh achieve higher yields, a 60 ...
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Buy organic, local and non-GMO? 9 popular practices that aren’t so eco-friendly after all

Anna Funk |
We all care about the environment, at least a tiny bit. Many of us recycle all we can and own ...
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Viewpoint: Government-funded anti-GMO groups promote hunger in world’s poorest nations

Paul Driessen |
Too many US, EU and UN government agencies have been captured by neo-colonialist elements in their leadership and ranks, and ...
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Viewpoint: How plant-based meat and other biotech innovations fuel ecological restoration

Gabriel Quadri De La Torre |
Agriculture, livestock and fishing are the sectors with the greatest ecological impacts on the planet. Soon, in a generation, they ...
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Washington Supreme Court orders reassessment of $18 million penalty against food industry group alleged to have concealed GMO labeling campaign funding

Gene Johnson |
The Washington Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the largest penalty for campaign finance violations ever assessed ...
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Lawsuit alleging EPA illegally re-approved dicamba could prevent farmers from spraying controversial weedkiller

Johnathan Hettinger |
In 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved Monsanto’s dicamba-based herbicide under a conditional two-year registration. The agency determined dicamba, ...
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Kenya distributes free GMO Bt insect-resistant cotton seeds to farmers to revive nation’s flagging textile industry

Anyango Otieno |
The government has started the distribution of free cotton seeds to farmers, including a genetically modified variety, in the latest ...
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Brexit unlikely to change UK’s restrictive GMO crop rules in the next 3 years, USDA reports

In his inaugural speech as Prime Minister (PM) in July 2019, Boris Johnson said “let’s liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience ...
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5 nations grow 174.5 million hectares of GMO crops annually—more than 90% of global total

High adoption of biotech crops continued in 2018 with 26 countries planting 191.7 million hectares worldwide. This area is an ...
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Low-hanging fruit: How the first generation of GMO crops yielded massive economic and environmental benefits

Nina Fedoroff |
There are still no widely available GM varieties of either wheat or rice, the second and third most widely grown ...
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Podcast: Don’t treat that fever—Dr. Paul Offit on why many of medicine’s most popular practices are ‘overkill’

Cameron English, Paul Offit |
Vaccine skeptics, alternative health advocates and anti-GMO activists are regularly lambasted for ignoring evidence that challenges their ideology. As it ...
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Genetically engineered biofuels might be able to compete with gasoline ‘within reach’

Berkeley Laboratory scientists designed simulations to determine how much biofuel is needed for the whole bioproduct extraction process to be ...
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Synthetic biology will help us feed ourselves with drought-tolerant crops as climate change accelerates

Xiaohan Yang |
Drought stress has been a long-time limitation to crop production that is being exacerbated by climate change and associated reductions ...
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CRISPR could yield herbicide-resistant, non-GMO soybeans to help combat stubborn weeds

Dusty Sonnenberg |
It is often said that a soybean’s maximum yield potential is when it is still in the bag .... [E]verything ...
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Podcast: GMOs to blame for coronavirus? Catching COVID-19 twice; junk studies fuel biotech skepticism

Cameron English, Kevin Folta |
As the world continues to struggle against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, anti-GMO activists are blaming crop biotechnology for the pandemic ...
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Norwegians see advantages to gene editing food

Justin Cremer |
Norwegian consumers are receptive to using gene editing tools in agriculture if they bring social, economic and environmental benefits, a ...
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Global access to education is growing. Here’s how GMO crops might be helping

Stuart Smyth |
One of the consistent benefits of GM crop adoption has been a higher farm and household income. In an assessment ...
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‘I’m a GMO’: Melanoma survivor explains how biotech improves cancer treatments and our food supply

Barbara Quinn, Steve Clark |
Several years ago I felt several bumps on my head which turned out to be active melanoma tumors .... The ...
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Viewpoint: From GMOs to vaccines to climate change, we need to challenge anti-science activism in the 2020s

Peter Hotez |
The last decade was remarkable for a rise in antiscience activities, especially in the areas of climate change, air pollution, ...
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With approval to plant GMO insect-resistant Bt cowpea, Nigerian farmer says her nation can lead Africa’s biotech ‘revolution’

Patience Koku |
I haven’t wanted to plant cowpea here in Nigeria because the plant suffers from one of the worst enemies imaginable: ...
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How GMO, gene-edited crops can help feed billions of people without fueling climate change

Emma Marris |
We face a formidable challenge in the years ahead. We need to reduce [carbon] emissions and also sustain a growing ...
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Video: What would happen if all the world’s farmers grew organic food?

Alex Berezow |
Stuck at home without your usual organic veggies? Just buy regular ones. They're safe, nutritious and might even be better ...
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‘Unforgiving math’: Why intensive agriculture is needed to fight climate change and feed 10 billion people

Ted Nordhaus |
There is an unforgiving math at the interface of agriculture and the environment ...
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New GMO crops are coming, but why do just four companies develop so many of them?

David Murray |
In November, Science magazine .... described how corn breeding researchers were able to activate a gene that regulated corn growth ...
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Clones, enzymes, stem cells and more: Learn these scientific terms to better understand biotech news

Theresa Phillips |
Quite often, you hear about advances in biotechnology in the news .... [Y]ou might feel as if the science and ...