gmo
Podcast: Save our forests with GMO trees? Let’s look at the costs and benefits first
We have genetically engineered food; how about trees? In [June 8's] Academic Minute, North Carolina State University's Jason Delborne looks ...
Monsanto’s GMO soybean ‘safe as conventional counterpart,’ EU expert panel confirms
Following the submission of [an] application .... from Monsanto (hereafter referred to as ‘the applicant’), the Panel on Genetically Modified ...
Explaining the debate over GMOs—and what is or isn’t ‘natural’— through the genetics of chickens
Chickens (and their eggs) provide a surprisingly down-to-earth illustration of the profound implications of the modern genetic revolution ...
Promoting lab-grown meat as ‘high-tech’ innovation could fuel consumer fear of alternative protein
In the near future, we will be able to mass-produce meat directly from animal cells. This cultured meat could change ...
FDA rejects call for USDA takeover of CRISPR gene-edited animal regulation
The Food and Drug Administration is standing its ground in the latest battle over its regulatory turf, warning livestock groups ...
India’s crackdown on GMO cotton in Maharashtra state boosts illegal planting nearly 25%
Nearly 25 per cent of the cotton crop being sown by farmers in Maharashtra this season is from the banned ...
Pakistan marks another GMO crop milestone
Pakistani farmers and scientists are recognizing the need for genetically modified (GM) crops to help the country transition from subsistence ...
Ghana’s Christian leaders join GMO debate, with some vouching for the technology’s goodness
Christian leaders in Ghana have joined the debate on whether the country should adopt genetically modified (GM) crops, with some ...
Opposition to India’s biotech crop rules grows as pro-GMO protestors distribute illegal cotton to farmers
Some farmers in Haryana [on July 5] symbolically sowed Herbicide Tolerant (HT) Bt cotton seeds at a farm in Hisar ...
India says it will take “appropriate action” to stop farmers from planting unapproved GMO insect resistant and herbicide tolerant crops
[India's] agriculture minister Narendra Singh Tomar reiterated that all genetically modified (GM) crops other than Bt. cotton [have] been banned ...
Viewpoint: GMOs pose ‘systemic threat to humanity’? Debunking Nassim Taleb’s apocalyptic assault on crop biotech
Nassim Taleb is a statistician and financial risk analyst. As interesting as his observations about the uncertain risk of large ...
Farmer’s open letter to skeptical consumers: We know science, glyphosate and GMOs are safe, and we need both to fight climate change
Despite repeated assurances from the mainstream science community that our food supply is safe, many consumers remain highly skeptical of ...
Viewpoint: France’s bad science—its stances on food safety and GMOs at sharp odds with European scientists
Paris is worried that the whitening additive that makes sweets gleam — titanium dioxide, also called E171 — and is ...
‘Innovative’ GMO Impossible burger could help support US soybean growers, says USDA chief Sonny Perdue
Sonny Perdue may be a champion of agriculture and agribusinesses in all its forms. But even he isn’t immune to ...
Tanzania denies allegation it outlawed GMO crop research
A top researcher in [Tanzania] has said research on genetically modified organism (GMO) in the country is neither banned nor ...
Uganda set to embrace artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies, but biotechnology languishes
'Something fundamentally detrimental to the progress of scientific and technological innovations in the agriculture of our nation is happening.' ...
Argentina approves fifth GMO cotton variety in effort to boost crop yields, spare natural resources
Argentina's Minister of AgroIndustry Luis Miguel Etechevehere and Christian Monty, Head of Global Cotton from BASF have announced the release ...
German farmer’s group calls for updated EU GMO crop rules to combat climate change
German farmers want access to new breeding technologies to protect against climate change. This would require a change in the ...
Viewpoint: Why Monsanto’s pro-GMO ‘crusade’ to win the millennial generation failed
Monsanto has been a lightning rod for people’s views on food, the food system, global health, and war since well ...
Low trust in government tech regulation fuels consumer doubt about GMOs, gene editing
Trust in governance is at an all-time low. Experts trace a first major decline in trust back to the 1970s, ...
The first gene-edited soybean opens door to a slew of new CRISPR foods
The number of crop gene-editing projects underway around the world is astonishing ...
Maharashtra state in India contemplates lifting GMO herbicide-tolerant cotton ban amid farmer protests
Demands to lift [the] ban on the use of herbicide-tolerant Bt (HTBT) cotton in the state are growing stronger. Several ...
Impossible Foods vs. Beyond Meat: Arms race to control booming plant-based burger market is on
Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods are served in almost 20,000 restaurants across the country, and the list of restaurant chains ...
Pro-GMO group in India offers legal services to farmers arrested for planting illegal biotech cotton
Soon after the police in Buldhana arrested farmer Vasanta Muley .... for possessing [illegal] cotton seeds .... Shektari Sanghatana — ...
Monsanto and ‘Big Ag’ strangle American farming? Sanders, Warren likely to attack conventional agriculture, promote organics at Democratic debates
This week's opening round of debates threatens to fall shockingly short on science ...
‘Third way’ agriculture: How technology, good judgement can save our food supply from climate change
Imagine waking up in a world that has become so hot and so crowded that most of what you eat ...
Despite threat of arrest, pro-GMO protests in India spread across 11 districts in state of Maharashtra
A ‘pro-GM seed’ movement, which had begun in one district of Maharashtra with farmers defying [a] ban on planting unapproved ...
