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Viewpoint: How EU can return to evidence-based policy-making

Daniel Guéguen | 
The word ‘evidence’ implies objectivity based on facts and science. But the reality reveals a wide gap between theory and ...
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Will Gene Editing and Other New Breeding Techniques Provide a ‘Second Chance’ for Worldwide Embrace of Genetically Engineered Crops?

Jon Entine | 
Jon Entine, Executive Director of the Genetic Literacy Project | June 13, 2018Highlights: Anti-GMO activists, aided by Russian propaganda, have ...
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Anti-GMO groups draw FDA rebuke over misrepresentation of Golden Rice nutrition

Andrew Porterfield | 
Finally, the FDA weighed in on Golden Rice, with its May 24 announcement approving it for use in the United ...
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Podcast: Has the GMO debate reached a turning point?

Cameron English, Stuart Smyth | 
For more than a decade now, environmentalist groups have waged a successful campaign against biotechnology in agriculture. Playing on the ...
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Golden Rice: Debunking Greenpeace’s ‘misinformed and politically motivated’ claims against the vitamin-enhanced GMO crop

Sandhya Ramesh | 
The campaign against GR2E was partly misinformed, partly politically motivated. ... One argument is that the benefits of GR2E are ...
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Let’s recognize Roundup Ready and Bt crops as major contributions to sustainable farming

Marc Brazeau | 
This is the first in a three-part series making the case that the development of biotech traits for insect resistance ...
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Nobel laureate Sir Richard Roberts: Uganda will remain trapped by food poverty if its leaders bow to anti-biotech activists

Richard Roberts | 
One of the main sources of nutrition for poor Ugandans, bananas, is on the verge of being wiped out by ...
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Genetically engineered AquaBounty salmon ready for US market, but caught in Congressional ‘sausage grinder’

Andrew Porterfield | 
“Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.” The true version of ...
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Viewpoint: Health Canada right to approve GMO Golden Rice as ‘safe for sale’

Health Canada’s decision to approve Golden Rice as safe for sale in Canada is the right move, despite complaints by ...
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The human cost of the anti-GMO movement: Why one scientist is quitting GE crop research

Devang Mehta | 
Constantly confronting people who think my research will harm them is profoundly distressing ...
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Viewpoint: How Germany’s anti-GMO, pro-organic politics benefit US ag companies

Reinhard Szibor | 
Editor's note: The following is a satirical letter written by Reinhard Szibor, professor emeritus of human genetics and forensic medicine at the ...
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How Nobel Laureate scientist Sir Richard Roberts became one of the world’s foremost advocates for GMOs

Richard Roberts | 
You’re a prominent voice on another issue: in the movement to allow access to genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, in ...
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Viewpoint: Regulatory overreach looms as obstacle for New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) in agriculture

Steven Cerier | 
The fast-moving world of plant breeding — fueled by advances in CRISPR and other techniques — has tossed a wrench ...
Viewpoint: How European activists lobby for a glyphosate ban despite findings of its safety

Viewpoint: How European activists lobby for a glyphosate ban despite findings of its safety

Bill Wirtz | 
In January, the European Parliament announced that it will set up a Special Committee on the Union’s authorization procedure for ...
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In India, Nobel laureate biochemist Richard Roberts calls for politicians to listen to scientists—not activists—on GMOs

UK-based scientist Richard J Roberts, who won the Nobel Prize in physiology in 1993, criticised the "anti-GMO people" ... and ...
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Why Greenpeace opposes GMOs: It’s a ‘corporate takeover of our food system’

Lisa Cornish | 
Large corporations producing genetically modified seeds dominate the debate, with activists questioning their motives and whether they have the ability ...
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Plagued by pest, African farmers may soon have access to insect-resistant GMO cowpeas—for free

Paul McDivitt | 
US government funding and royalty-free Bt technology from Monsanto will enable West African countries to provide farmers with free cowpea ...
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IARC cancer agency mounts PR effort as probe of possible corruption grows

Andrew Porterfield | 
The agency was heavily criticized for the methodology used in declaring the herbicide glyphosate a "probable carcinogen." Now IARC is ...
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Viewpoint: Misguided activism imperils potential of golden rice

Henry Miller | 
Golden rice has the potential to solve a significant health problem in developing nations, where hundreds of thousands of children ...
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Could GMO Golden Rice be teamed with vitamin A supplements to tackle global childhood blindness?

Ruth Kava | 
I want more than just having Golden Rice — I want it to be widely available to people who eat ...
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‘Big Ag’ may resonate with activists, but what does it really mean?

Andrew Porterfield | 
For some, GMOs are synonymous with 'Big Ag'? For others, 'Big Ag' means something entirely different. Does 'Big Ag' even ...
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NGO opposition to GMO, gene-edited crops not rooted in emotion and dogma, research suggests

In 2016, 107 Nobel Laureates signed an open letter calling on Greenpeace to desist from campaigning against agricultural biotechnology and ...
Viewpoint: Will Europe botch regulation of gene editing as it has GMOs?

Viewpoint: Will Europe botch regulation of gene editing as it has GMOs?

Hannes Kollist | 
Plant biologist: Europe's precautionary stance toward agricultural biotechnology has all but blocked the introduction of GM crops and could provide ...
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Glyphosate, IARC and politics: ‘We need a more honest debate’

Ian Plewis | 
Glyphosate is one of the most hotly-debated herbicides of the modern era. Many of the arguments against the popular weed-killer ...
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Viewpoint: No, Big Ag doesn’t ‘control’ the world’s food supply

Steve Savage | 
Is there truth to a common anti-GMO narrative that large multi-national companies seek to “control the food supply” through patents ...
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Did GMO connection prompt Gates Foundation to halt support for corn-aflatoxin breakthrough?

Andrew Porterfield | 
When Gates Foundation reviewers rejected a researcher's bid for new funding, one of the reasons cited was a concern over ...
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Left and right share anti-science instincts, rooted in fears of ideological misuse

Darrin Durant | 
Anti-science views have been increasingly embraced by political factions, left and right. Both harbor deep suspicions of government, industry and ...
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