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Anti-GMO activism: Latest example of age-old resistance to innovation, says African biotech scientist
A cloud of resistance hangs over the introduction of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Kenya....Uncertainties created by technophobes instill fear ...
Viewpoint: FDA needs to regulate alcohol companies that imply non-GMO cocktails are healthy
When liquor companies start promoting the health benefits of cocktails, you know it’s time for the feds to get serious ...
USDA moves to streamline biotech crop approvals by updating 30-year-old regulations
USDA’s new regulation updating its plant biotechnology guidelines is being reviewed by [the Office of Management and Budget], suggesting it’s ...
A tricky study about links between GMO rejectionism and education, and evidence the biotech debate may not be as ideologically polarized as most people think
Before we do an end-zone dance over this study, let's look at its limitations ...
As trade talks progress, US says it’s ‘high time’ Europe get over GMO fears
US officials on [February 21] ratcheted up pressure on the European Union to address longstanding agricultural issues between the two ...
California bill would curb open records requests used to harass biotech, public health researchers
Corporations and activists from the left and the right are abusing open records laws to harass public university researchers. A ...
USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue: Anti-GMO activism could ‘derail’ vital agricultural tools
An amorphous “fear-your-food” movement, fed in large part by the ceaseless churning of the internet, could sideline, deter, or even ...
Food label fatigue? Iowa farm group survey indicates shoppers growing skepticism of ‘natural’ and ‘organic’ food marketing claims
Eight in 10 Iowans find food labels misleading, according to the Iowa Food & Family Project’s (Iowa FFP) annual Consumer ...
Roundup on trial: Second glyphosate-cancer lawsuit heads to federal court
Bayer AG is set to face a second U.S. jury over allegations that its popular glyphosate-based weed killer Roundup causes ...
Biotech expert urges Nigeria to ignore activist calls to ban GMO Bt cowpea
Following fears and concerns by some civil society organisations and farmers over the safety of the newly commercialized Bt Cowpea ...
Grasses that genetically modify themselves could help prevent spread of GMOs in nature
Scientists have discovered that grasses are able to short cut evolution by taking genes from their neighbors. The findings suggest ...
South Australia considers repealing GMO crop cultivation ban that has cost farmers $33 million
The South Australian Government will consider overturning a longstanding ban on genetically modified (GM) crops, after a review into the ...
Viewpoint: Farmers offer to teach popular organic activist ‘Food Babe’ about GMOs—so she bans them on social media
In the four and a half years I’ve been blogging and doing social media as a career, I have banned ...
‘Most foods are GMOs’ and other popular anti-biotech myths debunked
Despite being heavily researched, genetically modified organisms—commonly called GMOs—have many myths and falsehoods surrounding them. Most of these myths are ...
Viewpoint: Developing nations should reject Europe’s fear-based crop biotech rules to grow their economies
In a recent speaking tour in South-East Asia, I was horrified to learn how many emerging market governments in the ...
Infographic: Are genetically engineered crops less safe than classically-bred food?
Crops and foods today are not what they used to look like. Farmers and plant breeders have been modifying plant ...
India’s Supreme Court refuses to halt investigation into Monsanto’s alleged anti-competitive practices
The Supreme Court on [February 18] refused to stay a Competition Commission of India (CCI) investigation into the alleged anti-competitive ...
Federal regulators ask biotech experts if GMO trees should be deployed to save ‘dying’ US forests
Plans are under way to plant swathes of genetically engineered trees across the ailing forests of North America in a bid to save them ...
Following trade negotiations, Argentina moves closer to exporting world’s first GMO wheat
Hoping to export a drought-resistant wheat variety, the world's first GMO wheat, Argentina has devised a road map with other ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO Organic Consumers Association helps Russia spread dangerous myths raising fake concerns about vaccines and biotechnology
Russian trolls are meddling wherever and whenever they can to cause societal strife. Radio Free Europe reports that Russian trolls may have ...
Talking Biotech: Ethos Chocolate—the pro-GMO candy brand winning over biotech skeptics
Ethos chocolate hypes its use of GMO ingredients to promote crop biotechnology ...
Viewpoint: ‘GMO,’ ‘non-GMO,’ ‘Organic’—let’s put an end to meaningless food labels
Food labeling has reached a feverpitch. But it hasn’t made shopping for healthy food any easier. A recent survey by the International ...
Podcast: Here’s why scientists don’t call genetically modified plants ‘GMOs’
GMOs, or genetically modified organisms, and CRISPR – which stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats, are used to ...
Video: How Bt insect-resistant eggplant helped farmers in Bangladesh beat back an invasive pest
A new study confirms that genetically modified, pest-resistant Bt eggplant (brinjal) has helped smallholder farmers in Bangladesh greatly reduce their ...
The Paltrow effect: When it comes to GMOs, consumers trust ill-educated celebrities more than science. How might farmers respond?
For a world that has largely forsaken religion in favor of science to base its attitudes towards food on nothing ...
Silent majority? Most Americans may embrace biotech, but vocal anti-GMO minority dominates the conversation
[Citrus greening disease] is threatening to topple the multibillion-dollar citrus industry in the U.S. by infecting millions of acres of ...
Another 2-year GMO corn and Roundup study finds no evidence of increased cancer, again repudiating Séralini’s retracted 2012 study
In 2012, a controversial study on the long-term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and the glyphosate-tolerant genetically modified (GM) maize ...
