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Peru crop biotech ban highlights botched debate over biodiversity

Jon Entine, Kenrick Vezina | 
Global demand for food is expected to increase by 70 percent in the next 40 years. What role could or ...

Michael Pollan: Monsanto’s influence preventing debate on GM labeling

Amy Goodman | 
The following is an edited excerpt of a longer story. Find a link to the full story below. From California's ...
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Navigating the agricultural biotech minefield: When an MIT study is not an MIT study

Kenrick Vezina | 
Thanks to a credulous Reuters report, a shoddy piece of pseudoscience is making the rounds as “an MIT study” linking ...
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Can Syngenta help make open-source GMOs a reality?

Sarah Fecht | 
In a new initiative, Syngenta will make its genetic engineering tools and GM plant varieties freely available for non-profit researchers ...
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Can biotechnology be open-source?

Sarah Fecht | 
As the Supreme Court watches Monsanto battle small farmers over GMO patent rights, some are suggesting that open-source biotechnology could ...

What’s in store for food reform in Obama’s second term?

Tom Laskawy | 
When Obama was first elected, food reformers dreamt big. As Michael Pollan wrote just after the 2008 election in his ...
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What’s next for the anti-GM food movement?

Jon Entine, Kenrick Vezina | 
The reflections and recriminations over the rejection of California’s Proposition 37 is in full swing. The measure was soundly defeated, ...
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Organic versus inorganic: an important distinction, but not for obvious reasons

Lee Silver | 
The distinction between organic and inorganic -- natural versus unnatural -- carries massive cultural, historical, and social freight, as demonstrated ...
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Prop 37 defeated: a retrospective

Kenrick Vezina | 
California's Proposition 37 -- which would have required labeling of genetically modified foods -- failed to pass last night. While ...
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