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Dannon Yogurt accused of misleading consumers about its sustainability commitment with ‘non-GMO’ claim
Dannon announced with great fanfare last year a “sweeping commitment for sustainable agriculture, more natural ingredients, and greater transparency,” with ...
President Trump signs executive order that aims to streamline approvals for gene-edited and GMO crops, animals
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on [June 11] directing federal agencies to streamline the review process for ...
Never swayed by science? Why arguing with anti-GMO activists could strengthen their skepticism
Genetic engineering is revolutionizing crop farming, bringing benefits to farmers, the environment and consumer health. Its opponents, however, are not ...
Swaziland (eSwatini) finds success with GMO cotton
The chief executive officer of the Swaziland Cotton Board is urging African leaders to put their political egos aside and ...
How biotech could help save rice, staple crop consumed by half the world daily, from climate change
For more than half the world’s population, rice is on the menu every single day. As a crop that can ...
Nestlé poised to launch plant-based ‘Awesome Burger’ to compete with Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat
Nestlé’s new ‘cook from raw’ plant-based Awesome Burger (launching in the fall under the Sweet Earth brand in retail and ...
EU vegetable oil producers join 26 farm, science organizations calling for updated CRISPR crops rules
Plant breeding innovations need to be treated differently to GMOs in order to leverage their potential to contribute to sustainability ...
10% of India’s 12.2 million cotton hectares came from illegal GMO seeds in 2018
A farm group said its members had planted a variety of genetically modified cotton seeds which have not been approved ...
Maine, largest salmon farming state, won’t produce GMO AquAdvantage fish
Genetically engineered salmon is heading to store shelves in the U.S., but it won’t be coming from the biggest salmon ...
How a genetically altered virus could save Florida’s decimated orange industry from citrus greening disease
In the early 1970s there was a ubiquitous television ad promoting Florida orange juice including the line, "a day without orange juice ...
Unapproved GMO wheat discovered on Washington state farm, USDA says
The USDA is investigating the discovery of genetically engineered wheat found in an unplanted Washington state farm field. The exact ...
Mike Adams’ Natural News anti-GMO and conspiracy site banned from Facebook
Natural News has nearly 3 million Facebook followers, more than Infowars and Alex Jones combined before Facebook banned them from ...
5,000 farmers to plant illegal GMO cotton, eggplant in protest of India’s biotech crop rules
As many as 5,000 people are expected to come together in Maharashtra’s Akola district [June 10] for what will be ...
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat can’t keep up with demand for plant-based burgers
Fast-food restaurants are rushing to add meat-free burgers to their menus, hoping these higher-priced alternatives will help them capture additional ...
Viewpoint: Want to understand crop biotech? Avoid these discredited anti-GMO sources
Here’s a tip for all the anti-GMO activists out there: If you ever want to get the last word in ...
Can processed food boost global nutrition, despite its unhealthy reputation?
There’s a lot of debate about the safety and value of food that’s been processed .... UMass Amherst food scientist ...
Many shoppers won’t use QR codes to access GMO food label information, study suggests
In 2016, thanks in part to consumer demand, Congress passed the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, a federal mandate requiring ...
Will warming planet, population boom push skeptical consumers to embrace GMO, CRISPR crops?
As part of an agricultural charm offensive by the US government, a group of British journalists was invited into the ...
Viewpoint: Does ‘doxxing’ attack on geneticist Kevin Folta represent new low in anti-GMO attacks on scientists?
In the minds of activists, it doesn't matter that Dr. Folta never acted illegally or unethically. The only thing that ...
USDA proposes regulation ‘overhaul’ to streamline new biotech crop development
Many new genetically engineered crop traits would be exempt from regulation by the Agriculture Department under a sweeping rewrite of ...
Viewpoint: UK bans neonic pesticides, then imports neonic-treated crops at expense of its farmers
The key parts of any fully integrated [pest] management system are the building blocks which are integral to a balanced ...
A tale of two GMO crops: Why were omega-3 producing plants developed faster than golden rice?
One of the arguments that has been advanced to promote genetically engineered crops is that .... [c]rops could be engineered ...
Kenya plants demonstrations of drought-tolerant, insect-resistant GMO maize
Kenyan scientists have planted demonstration plots in the country’s eastern and western regions to show how genetically modified (GM) maize ...
Golden Rice, Part 4: Cost-effective GMO crop can save lives and dramatically boost developing economies
Golden Rice is safe, and there is excellent human evidence that it will work ...
Nutritionally enhanced GMO crops could boost public health worldwide, so why have we developed so few?
The potential for using genetic modification (GM) to enhance the nutritional composition of crops .... has been recognized since the ...
GMO Bt crops slow global spread of fall armyworm pest, but some bugs resistant to insecticidal plants
The fall armyworm is hungry, on the move and scaring farmers the world over. The crop-devouring pest has spread from ...
In bid for US support, French candidate to head UN agricultural agency says she’s not necessarily opposed to GMO or gene-edited crops
Europe’s candidate to run the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which guides policymakers around the world, has promised the ...
