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Myth busting: Why Agent Orange has nothing do to with GMOs and the herbicide 2,4-D

Andrew Porterfield |
By spreading misinformation about the herbicide 2,4-D, which IARC says is less hazardous than glyphosate, anti-GMO activists seek to deny ...
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Could TransPacific Trade agreement enable corporations to block GMO labeling laws?

Andrew Porterfield |
The controversial Trans Pacific Trade agreement has been attacked by anti-GM0 activists for supposedly watering down the ability to regulate ...
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Glyphosate is no bee killer

Andrew Porterfield |
The science is in. Challenging anti-GMO claims, glyphosate (Roundup) doesn't kill bees, unless you drop a bottle of it on ...
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Colicins dilemma: Bio-pharmed food-borne illness-fighting drug in anti GMO dungeon

Andrew Porterfield |
Colicins are a natural antibacterial that could help reduce outbreaks of infectious disease. But they face a lot of opposition ...
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A co-existence peace plan for GMOs and organics

Andrew Porterfield |
Could organic and GM farming step past the rhetoric and vitriol, and co-exist? The science says yes ...
Next-generation genetic engineering must address public fears

Next-generation genetic engineering must address public fears

Andrew Porterfield |
Next generation innovations for genetic modification of food and medicine face an uncertain future. Avoiding the public acceptance failures that ...
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Activists blame scientists, GMOs for dying iconic Italian olive trees, block GM solution

Andrew Porterfield |
Olive trees in Italy are falling victim to a new bacteria. Scientific solutions are being replaced by hysteria, blocking GMO ...
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Anti-GMO myth busted—We’re not losing plant genetic diversity after all

Andrew Porterfield |
Anti-GMO activists and even some science publications claim GMOs are accelerating the trend toward a drastic loss in biodiversity. They ...
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Seed bank advantages lost in fog of anti-GMO war

Andrew Porterfield |
While anti GMO activists push for organics, a complimentary answer to feeding the world may lie in seed banks. Only ...
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Why former organic farmer, food inspector turned against Big Organic to embrace GMOs

Mischa Popoff |
Nothing cuts deeper than feeling betrayed. That's the story of a former organic farmer who now believes the industry who ...
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Why regulators conclude glyphosate safe while IARC, alone, claims it could cause cancer?

Andrew Porterfield |
Glyphosate joins apples, coffee, sunning and night shift work as an IARC "probable" carcinogen. But the real risk to humans ...
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5 Myths about GMOs

In the neverending debate about genetically modified foods, which myths do you believe? ...
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Farm to boardroom: US organic industry dominated by mega corporations

Andrew Porterfield |
According to the anti-GMO narrative, organic is frail David fighting for its life against the Goliaths of Big Ag and ...
Why Whole Foods and Chipotle's anti-GMO campaigning has lost my business

Why Whole Foods and Chipotle’s anti-GMO campaigning has lost my business

Julie Kelly |
I’ve become an accidental activist on behalf of GMOs, in part because of misleading fear based marketing campaigns by food ...
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American attitudes toward GMO foods divides by education and gender, not politics nor religion

David Despain |
A new Pew survey found that acceptance of use of GMOs crops and pesticides depended far more on education and ...
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UK GM wheat trial highlights costs of violent activism

Arvind Suresh |
The failure of GM wheat developed by UK researchers to repel pests not only highlighted the scientific process, but also ...
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GMO ‘Right to Know’ movement takes food off of plates of hungry in Africa, Asia

Michael Dzakovich |
Unsubstantiated fears about the safety of GM crops in developed countries with an over-abundance of food has spread anti-biotech sentiment ...
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Asthma and Atopic March Syndrome caused by GMOs? Science says ‘No’

Andrew Porterfield, Jon Entine |
Anti-GMO activists have lumped together a lot of allergic reactions into a syndrome caused by GMOs. Asthma shows how wrong ...
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Newsmax unmasked: How scare stories are manufactured by right wing anti-GMO activists

David Despain |
Anti-GMO propaganda production usually emerges from leftist environmental and activist groups. But they have no peer in the pseudo-science emanating ...
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BBC Panorama blasts anti-GMO activists for ignoring science underscoring turning point on biotech reporting

David Despain |
BBC's takedown of activist environmentalists for their rejection of safe and environmentally sustainable crops is the latest in a series ...
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The sustainability case for “industrial agriculture”

Ted Nordhaus |
Attacks on GMOs is often a proxy for criticisms of globalization, corporate agriculture, synthetic chemicals. But these debates often lose ...
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Anti-GMO bungle: Claim GM genes pass from food into blood collapses

Jon Entine |
In 2013, when PLoS One published a research paper, Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood, anti-GMO activists ...
Genetic modification of trees faces forest of protests

Genetic modification of trees faces forest of protests

Andrew Porterfield |
Genetic modification of trees could help mitigate climate change and increase wood and paper production. But opposition to even basic ...
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The Case for GMOs and Sustainability

Jon Entine |
From conventional breeding to mutagenesis, none of our foods that we eat today is the product of Nature’s way. But ...
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Pro-GMO marchers shocked at unfocused anger of March Against Monsanto protesters

Julie Kelly |
The most striking and at times frightening aspect of the March Against Monsanto was the unfocused vitriol voiced by the ...
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Anti-GMO stance by Greenpeace, other environmental activists, worsen climate change

Andrew Porterfield |
The evidence suggests that GM crops can and do contribute to reducing global climate change. But high profile environmental groups, ...