gmo
Will GMO-wary China accept virus-resistant CRISPR pigs?
As China struggles to stem a contagious, hog-ravaging disease, a British company offers some hope. But it may first need ...
Plant-based Burger King whopper heads to Sweden, sans key GMO ‘Impossible’ ingredient
.... Burger King [began] selling a new plant-based burger in Sweden [on May 23]. [T]he new menu offering [is] “a ...
Viewpoint: Burkina Faso’s declining cotton yields illustrate need for GMO crops
At a forum on biotech crops and the Big Four Agenda at the University of Nairobi on April 24, critics ...
Golden Rice, Part 2: Will nutritionally enhanced rice work and help solve malnutrition in developing countries?
For more than a quarter of a century, vitamin A deficiency (VAD) has been recognized by the United Nations as ...
Glyphosate-tainted burgers? Impossible Foods rebuffs Moms Across America’s latest anti-GMO campaign
“Moms Across America” has escalated a year-long campaign against Impossible Foods to push its anti-vaccine, anti-GMO agenda to anyone gullible ...
Consumers want to buy from ethical companies, but interest in non-GMO, organic labels dropping, survey shows
A survey conducted by Crestline Custom Promotional Products showed 68.3% of American consumers want to support companies that promote similar ...
With Burger King plant-based whopper available nationwide, meatless meat ‘here to stay’
Gone are the days when vegan meat was derided as tasteless — a sacrifice vegetarians made in service of a ...
Afraid of GMOs? Thousands of studies, strict regulations show there’s nothing to fear, farmer says
GMOs have been widely misunderstood. People are concerned about their health and the environment (and they should be worried about ...
Viewpoint: Why we can’t seem to bridge the gulf that divides pro- and anti-GMO forces
The opposition to GMOs is based not on scientific evidence, but on personal values and ideology. In effect, the two ...
Chipotle attempts to derail lawsuit alleging its non-GMO marketing misled customers
Chipotle customers suing the burrito maker over its “non-GMO” menu claims are pressing a federal judge to deny the company’s ...
Viewpoint: India’s GMO Bt eggplant ban drives farmers to buy black market biotech seeds
Bt brinjal [is] being illegally cultivated in the country—the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources has just confirmed this for ...
GMO chestnut trees could help revitalize New York’s Native American communities
The American chestnut once dominated the eastern forests of the United States. A fungal pathogen, Cryphonectria parasitica, was introduced to ...
Brazil urges China to import sugar from biotech sugarcane, says final product has no GMO ingredients
Brazil’s agriculture minister [asked] Chinese officials on [May 16] to greenlight exports to the Asian nation of sugar made from ...
Golden Rice, Part 1: The story of a GMO crop that could benefit billions of children a year
For billions of people, the stakes could not be higher ...
Podcast: Could a benign virus save Florida’s devastated orange industry from citrus greening disease?
Huanglongbing, or HLB, is the Chinese term for the Yellow Dragon Disease–usually referred to as citrus greening. The disease first ...
Anti-GMO Russia joins global CRISPR ‘bonanza,’ investing $1.7 billion in gene-edited crop research
Russia is embracing gene-editing. A 111-billion-rouble (US$1.7-billion) federal programme aims to create 10 new varieties of gene-edited crops and animals ...
Viewpoint: Regulators should embrace the Vatican’s decade-old endorsement of GMOs
If only legislators and regulators would “get religion" and take the Pontifical Academy’s decade-old recommendations to heart ...
Ghana farmer groups demand accelerated approval of GMO crops
Farmer groups in Ghana are asking the government to speed up the process of commercializing genetically modified (GM) crops as ...
Disease-resistant GMO chestnut trees could birth ‘new agroforestry industry’
Many Americans know the sad tale of how the American chestnut tree was driven almost to extinction in the 20th ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO forces in Nigeria have abandoned reason and the nation’s best interests
Protecting health and and food security is best done through dialogue and education, not threats and smear campaigns ...
Expensive is healthier? How premium organic food prices mislead shoppers
Organic food and organic farming have a really strong association with being “better.” But not everyone means the same thing ...
Oregon bill would let farmers sue biotech firms if GMO crops ‘contaminate’ their fields
The Oregon Legislature is considering a bill that would let farmers sue companies, such as Bayer and Syngenta, that hold ...
Podcast: Burger King’s ‘Impossible’ Whopper—’breakout moment’ for plant-based meat?
The Whopper is an icon of American culture. But the Whopper is getting a complete overhaul — and when we ...
Ethos Chocolate, candy brand that hypes its GMO ingredients, back by popular demand
In its debut in February, the debut of Ethos Chocolate made a big, wonderful, delicious splash — the initial batch of 10,000 ...
Nigeria approves two GMO cotton varieties anticipated to boost production from 60,000 to 150,000 tons
Nigeria approved two genetically modified varieties of cotton for use by the nation’s farmers to help boost supply to its ...
Genetically engineered trees could save our forests—but it won’t be an easy fix
A biotech tree could simultaneously increase and decrease the wildness of a forest ...
Podcast: From anti-GMO journalist to crop biotech advocate—Alliance for Science managing editor Joan Conrow
For many years, the developing world has been at the center of a heated debate between mainstream scientists and anti-GMO ...
