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Do biotech crops boost yields for organic farmers?
Nutrition, the environment and worker’s wellbeing are the banners of the green crusade. But, with organics charging an average of 50% more ...
Non-GMO Project says proposed ban of its butterfly label violates First Amendment
A citizen petition filed on September 24, 2018 by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) asked FDA to prohibit “non-GMO” food ...
Trust issues: Scientific credibility suffers when industries sponsor research
Industry plays a central role in scientific research and development. But research shows that when companies fund science, credibility suffers ...
Plant breeding evolution: How manipulating crops helped build civilization
Humans have been breeding plants for millennia. Our ancestors began to domesticate plants (and animals) at least 10,000 years ago, allowing ...
GMOs are ‘yucky’—the real reason consumers dislike biotech crops?
Twenty-two years after Monsanto introduced its Roundup-resistant soybeans, the debate over genetic modification is far from over .... in the U.S., ...
Is ‘factory farming’ an accurate description of modern agriculture?
I’ve lived in four states on the East Coast and Gulf, and I’ve never found myself wanting come harvest time ...
Could green benefits of biotech crops win over ‘ideological’ environmentalists?
A new study in Nature Sustainability reports that “[e]xtensive field data suggest that impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields ...
Viewpoint: Organic food companies count on ‘consumer ignorance’ to sell their products
Consumers today have more food choices available than at any other time in human history .... but the terms and ...
Will ‘regulatory red tape’ cost India its status as world’s top cotton producer?
Delivering his fifth Independence Day speech on August 15, 2018, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that he wanted to add ...
Opportunity lost: Has Uganda paid a price for not embracing GMOs, biotechnology?
It has been more than two decades since the commercial introduction of GMO crops. They have delivered a range of ...
Anti-GMO activists can’t be allowed to ‘have their way,’ African farmer warns
When I was a little boy, what I feared most were the masqueraders .... human beings wearing masks or ...
Educating farmers key to biotech crop success in developing world
African countries and the Philippines have made significant progress in developing genetically modified (GMO) crops, adding impetus to the drive to ...
GMO controversy is a political debate, not a food safety issue, farmers say
According to a recent article in the New York Times, most consumers don’t know or realize that for decades they ...
Famous chemist Bruce Ames a chemical ‘industry apologist,’ anti-GMO group claims
[The] Ames test .... is literally textbook science that is taught to students all over the world. .... It was ...
How anti-GMO research is manufactured: Challenging two Séralini-lab studies that fueled renewed safety concerns over GMOs and glyphosate
In the wake of the decision by a California federal court concluding that Monsanto’s Roundup, whose active ingredient is glyphosate, ...
Video: How CRISPR gene editing can protect and improve our food supply
Following the July European Court of Justice decision to regulate gene-edited crops as GMOs, a debate over the costs and ...
China’s adoption of GMO cotton launched 25-year decline in ‘hazardous’ pesticide use
China has experienced large and sustained reductions in pesticide use as a result of adopting GMO cotton, according to the largest-ever ...
GMO wine: Are we ready for it?
Genetic modification of grapes could help wine growers deal with a range of challenges -- if they can be convinced ...
Myth busted: Only ‘Big Ag’ develops GMO crops
Farmers in other parts of the world — particularly in third world countries — are experiencing REAL problems that the ...
Viewpoint: Catering to anti-GMO activists is a losing business strategy
A few years ago .... Brent Smart, CEO of advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi's, headquartered in New York, who had managed their ...
Do GMOs ‘contaminate’ our food? Survey probes consumer views of biotech crops
Is a non-browning apple less “natural” than non-fat milk? In one case, people have injected something into apple DNA to ...
Viewpoint: UC-San Francisco is the ‘academic home of the anti-GMO movement’
Being anti-GMO is the biotech equivalent of being anti-vaccine. The scientific literature overwhelmingly and definitively has concluded that GMOs are safe ...
Biotech crops could soften impact of climate change, Gates Foundation says
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) just released its 2018 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the ...
Viewpoint: FDA should eliminate non-GMO labels that ‘vilify’ food innovation
It’s high time for the FDA to protect food innovation. The greatest tool for breakthroughs in food — genetic engineering ...
Biotech experts open their labs to combat misinformation about GMOs
Scientists are demonstrating the efficacy of plant biotechnology by taking Cornell Alliance for Science Global Leadership Fellows through the process ...
South Australia launches ‘independent review’ of GMO crop moratorium
South Australia has announced an independent review into the state's moratorium on genetically modified (GM) crops. Economist and agriculture policy ...
Methane-cutting GMO ‘super-grass’ could start new biotech crop debate in New Zealand
Groundbreaking New Zealand research shows that methane production from livestock could be dramatically reduced with a new so-called pasture super-grass ...
