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Viewpoint: ‘Terminator seeds’—the anti-GMO bogeyman that never existed
Although GMO sterile 'terminator' seeds never existed, the idea has distorted the discussion for decades ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups exploit COVID to block access to biotech crops
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on our lives in so many ways, including diminished social contact, disrupted ...
How needless precaution kept a GMO ‘superfood’ off the market: Q&A with Golden Rice author Ed Regis
Seeing what has happened to Golden Rice over the course of 20 years, nothing would surprise me going forward ...
Viewpoint: Greenpeace-funded study backfires, undermining case to treat gene-edited crops as GMOs
The anti-GMO movement dominated the public discourse about crop biotechnology for decades. Led by committed activists who knew how to ...
Podcast: Greenpeace CRISPR study debunked; Public accepts gene-edited babies? Cancer vaccine progress
A Greenpeace-funded study alleges that gene-edited crops can be detected and should therefore be regulated as "GMOs." However, experts say ...
Can gene-edited crops be ‘detected’? Claims by Greenpeace and anti-biotech activists dismissed by safety officials, scientists
A joint report by several NGOs caused a stir on September 7th by claiming that [gene editing] was now detectable ...
Viewpoint: Synthetic pesticides are the solution to East Africa’s famine-causing locust swarms
For months, billions of these pests have migrated from remote deserts into populated regions of East Africa and into Asia, ...
Viewpoint: Germany’s pesticide use drops for 8th straight year, but anti-GMO groups say that’s not good enough
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture data show that use of crop protection products, e.g. pesticides, went down last ...
Greenpeace proposes law to cut EU meat consumption 80% by 2050, to just three burgers per week
The world’s leading medical journal, The Lancet, recommends that in 2050, people should be consuming a maximum of 300 grams ...
Gene drives could revolutionize how we deal with pests—if the technology avoids the controversial fate of GMOs
In addition to research and laboratory ethics, gene drive proponents need to focus on public perception ...
Activist groups Greenpeace, PETA added to UK counter-terror list
A counter-terrorism police document distributed to medical staff and teachers as part of anti-extremism briefings included Greenpeace, Peta and other ...
Viewpoint: At least 200,000 people die every year GMO Golden Rice is kept off the market
This is not a story of incompetence and ignorance, but of an antediluvian hostility to science and technology ...
Philippines is first! Long-delayed Vitamin A-enhanced Golden Rice greenlighted, bucking activist opposition
The fortified food addresses vitamin A deficiency, which kills an estimated 670,000 children each year ...
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Viewpoint: How international anti-biotech activists manipulate year-old Mexican government to block crop GMO innovations
Mexico's leadership should not restrict crop biotechnology based on personal beliefs or scientific misinformation ...
Viewpoint: Generation Z to environmentalists: If you care about sustainability, embrace GMOs and gene edited crops
It is important that this new generation follow the facts, not just rigid environmental orthodoxy ...
Golden Rice: The GMO crop loved by humanitarians, opposed by Greenpeace
Golden Rice is back in the news as the Philippines and Bangladesh move closer towards approval of the GMO food ...
Viewpoint: Golden Rice—how ‘stultifying overregulation, fear and hostility’ kept a GMO superfood off the market
The superfood thus seemed to have everything going for it: It would be the basis for a sea change in ...
Viewpoint: GMO, CRISPR-edited crops can cut pesticide use—if environmental activists do not block them
Anti-GMO activists should take a step back and look closely at some of the benefits that new genetically modified crops ...
Education, politics, religion may have no impact on our acceptance of GMOs
A study examining the public's 2006 views on GMOs offers a glimpse into the evolution of the ongoing debate over ...
Golden Rice, Part 3: A thoroughly studied, safe and nutritionally enhanced GMO crop approved by Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the US, but vilified by Greenpeace and ‘environmental’ activists
‘Opposition [to Golden Rice] based on emotion and dogma contradicted by data must be stopped.' ...
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 ...
Does Big Ag control farmers through seeds patents? Farmers don’t think so.
Farmers have a wide range of choices for seeds, including conventional and GMO. And most, for economic and performance rather ...
Why do we need GMOs if we already grow enough food to feed the world?
The world produces enough food to feed everyone, but what does that really mean, considering abundant food in the west ...
Podcast: Yale neurologist Steven Novella debunks popular myths about GMO golden rice
As Bangladesh prepares to release GMO golden rice, Yale University clinical neurologist Steven Novella and co-hosts debunk some popular myths ...
Viewpoint: Despite anti-GMO opposition, poor farmers will finally plant ‘life-saving’ golden rice
Golden Rice which has been genetically engineered to have higher levels of the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene is finally about ...
Examining 10 science challenged ‘studies’ suggesting GMOs are harmful
The blog "10 Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Can Be Harmful To Human Health" is now a fixture on cyberspace. A ...
