GLP Podcast: Non-GMO Project targets synthetic biology; What do our genes do? Time to toss your multivitamin?

GLP Podcast: Non-GMO Project targets synthetic biology; What do our genes do? Time to toss your multivitamin?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The Non-GMO Project has targeted synthetic biology on behalf of consumers, but does the public really need protection from a ...
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What are the Challenges Facing Modern Farming Around the World?

Mary Boote | 
Mary Boote, Chief Executive Officer of the GlobalFarmer Network | June 12, 2018Highlights: Agricultural biotech solutions are being denied to ...
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Podcast: How 1970s fat-free fad launched organic, non-GMO and other ‘absurd’ labeling schemes

Steve Savage | 
Go walk the aisles of your local grocery store and see how many products are being marketed for what they ...
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Viewpoint: All milk is ‘non-GMO,’ and 4 other facts you should know before you go grocery shopping

Michele Payn | 
Just as you don’t want food with empty calories, avoid food with empty label claims such as “____-free”, “natural”, “farm-raised” ...
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Viewpoint: Avoid these 6 bogus labels at the grocery store to save money

Michelle Miller | 
Are you paying more for certain food labels? Who can blame you! With the rise of labels and wanting to ...
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El Pollo Loco launches plant-based menu made from in-house, ‘non-GMO’ vegan chicken

Lauren Stine | 
El Pollo Loco is now offering plant-based chicken systemwide through its new Chickenless Pollo Taco and Burrito menu items, according ...
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Non-GMO, high-protein ‘smart peas’ slated for 2021 debut, with other ‘super trait’ crop varieties to follow

Lana Bandoim | 
Equinom, an Israeli startup, raised $10 million in a Series B round of funding from BASF Venture Capital, Roquette, Trendlines ...
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Non GMO salt? Gluten free orange juice? No hormone-added chicken? Study suggests many consumers willingly overpay even when they learn food label claims are bogus

Jayson Lusk, Lacey Wilson | 
Previous studies, as well as market sales data, show some consumers are willing to pay a premium for redundant or ...
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Viewpoint: Conventional, organic farmers risk alienating consumers by ‘trashing’ each other’s products

Ed White | 
I once rescued a car from a mechanic who was pushing much unnecessary “repair” work. The ethical mechanic I took ...
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Geneticist Pamela Ronald: Non GMO food label ‘dupes’ Americans into buying $26 billion worth of mostly misleadingly-labeled products

DESPITE broad scientific consensus that genetically modified (GMO) food is safe, there has been a proliferation of product labels seeking ...
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Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggests regulators may crack down on ‘confusing’ non-GMO labels

Hank Campbell | 
If FDA ever enforces its own rules, they could stop lots of nonsense labels on food, and recent comments by ...
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Viewpoint: Don’t overpay for greens labeled ‘non-GMO’—because there’s no genetically modified lettuce

Have you ever eaten genetically modified arugula? We’re positive you haven’t — because it doesn’t exist! But that hasn’t stopped ...
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Viewpoint: How organic, non-GMO marketing turned food labels into ‘wild west’ of deceptive advertising

Hank Campbell | 
Food labels these days are like the Wild West of dishonest advertising. Plant juice can be called milk, steak can ...
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Judge green lights class action lawsuit over Nestle’s ‘No GMO Ingredients’ product label

Martin Macias | 
A federal judge .... denied a bid by food and beverage giant Nestle to toss a consumer class action claiming ...
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9 popular ‘eco-friendly’ everyday things that really aren’t…including buying non-GMO foods

Anna Groves | 
We all care about the environment at least a tiny bit. Some of us more than others. But there are ...
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Viewpoint: Non-GMO, organic, gluten free? Demystifying misleading food labels

Hillary Kaufman | 
Take a look at our label guide to know when a label is meaningful and when you’re just throwing away ...
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Blockchain could help keep ‘counterfeit’ products out of organic, non-GMO certification schemes

Keith Harris, Terry Griffin | 
More and more food products and beverages are branded and accompanied by a variety of certification schemes. For instance, organic ...
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Dietitian: ‘Ancient, non-GMO’ salt is a marketing scam—don’t fall for it

Sheah Rarback | 
My head was spinning after a recent salt-buying trek .... I saw salts with a non-GMO label. To be GMO, ...
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30,000 food products with Non-GMO Project label may be “false or misleading,” FDA guidance document says

Cameron English | 
The Non-GMO label may soon see its ubiquitous butterfly wings trimmed ...
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10 GMO memes backed up by science

Anti-GMO activists have churned out memes critical of GM crops and food. Now science enthusiasts are fighting back with fact-based ...
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GMO Free label movement spins out of control—Now it’s on cat litter and condoms

Brian Barth | 
From acai to condoms, companies are capitalizing on anti-GMO fervor, with misleading labels. At bus stops all over my neighborhood are ...
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Talking Biotech: Meet the liquor store owner boycotting Smirnoff’s ‘non-GMO’ vodka

Allison Nondorf, Kevin Folta | 
Meet Allison Nondorf, a farmer and co-owner of A&C Liquid Assets in Kansas. The liquor store refuses to sell Smirnoff's ...
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With GMO soybean market booming, is there a future for conventional varieties?

Nazimi Açıkgöz | 
Almost all the world's soybean grown today is GMO, which it is very difficult to find non-GMO soybeans. Begging the ...
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Industry group ‘resurrects’ USDA’s canceled organic food research program

Tom Karst | 
Three months after the U.S. Department of Agriculture pulled the plug on a plan to establish a national organic promotion ...
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How food companies’ switch to non-GMO ingredients could hurt the poor

Robin Lloyd | 
Consumers have paid significantly higher prices for non-GM foods compared with conventional counterparts in four categories, a new analysis shows ...
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Viewpoint: The faulty logic behind popular anti-GMO meme ‘it just feels right’

Curtis Hannah | 
I don’t know about you, but I have never liked the sound the letters TO, TWO, and TOO makes. Maybe ...
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Talking Biotech: Should milk, meat and eggs from animals fed GMO crops be labeled?

Alison Van Eenennaam, Paul Vincelli | 
Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Data shows that products from animals fed genetically engineered crops are no different than those fed ...
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