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Organic, grass-fed beef: Nutritious food choice or marketing hype?

Leah Dowling, Louise Dunn | 
.... Organic farming and grass feeding are promoted as having some social and environmental benefits compared with conventionally produced red ...
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Viewpoint: How organic activists use intimidation and character assassination to attack GMOs

Henry Miller | 
In Part 1,  I described the vendetta by the Russian government's propaganda apparatus against technologies like fracking and modern genetic ...
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Viewpoint: Stonyfield Organic enlisted ‘rapid response team’ of academics to ‘scare people’ about GMOs

2015 was the peak of the GMO labeling debate. Bills were being thrown around at both the state and federal ...
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Kazakhstan ‘goes organic’ to compete in $90 billion non-GMO food market

Agnieszka De Sousa | 
Kazakhstan is tapping growing consumer demand for organic crops to help it better compete in the food-export market. The country ...
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Was there Russian collusion? When it comes to prominent anti-GMO groups, the disturbing answer is ‘yes’

Henry Miller, Jon Entine | 
Modern genetic engineering techniques applied to agriculture are making stunning advances. This year, after decades in (gratuitous) regulatory limbo, the ...
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Organic industry splinters as USDA ‘bioengineered’ labeling initiative progresses

Daisy Xiong | 
Richmond-based Nature's Path Foods, a leading organic breakfast company in North America, has recently announced its resignation from the Organic ...
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Viewpoint: Here’s why organic farming needs GMOs

Val Giddings | 
“Civilization has been built on genetically modified plants.” — Nina V. Fedoroff, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientists View of Genetically ...
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‘Environmental progress without organic’: Rachel Carson’s testy relationship with the organic food and farming movement

Robert Paarlberg | 
Rachel Carson, who launched the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book “Silent Spring,” was a highly private person. But ...
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Talking Biotech: From non-GMO to organic, has food labeling gone too far?

Colleen Dekker, Kevin Folta | 
Elanco's Colleen Parr Dekker: Product differentiation and marketing—not transparency and education—are why food companies adopt trendy labels ...
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Mythbusting gone wrong: How the ‘dangerous’ organic pesticide myth began

Marc Brazeau | 
One of the things that surprised me in researching this story was that I could not find a single organic-approved ...
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A behind the scenes look at pesticide use in organic orchards, vineyards and fresh produce

Marc Brazeau | 
This is part three of a four-part series attempting to separate fact from fiction regarding pesticide use on organic farms ...
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4 things that led to the myth that organic farmers use more pesticides than conventional farmers

Marc Brazeau | 
This is part two of a four-part series attempting to separate fact from fiction regarding pesticide use on organic farms ...
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Do organic farmers really use more pesticides than conventional farmers? Not even close.

Marc Brazeau | 
This is part one of a four-part series attempting to separate fact from fiction regarding pesticide use on organic farms ...
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‘The Farm Project’: Actress Zooey Deschanel’s advice on organic food, pesticides is short on science

Michael Schulson | 
The actress Zooey Deschanel cites pesticide use in advising Facebook users to avoid certain non-organic produce. Is that scientifically sound ...
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Viewpoint: How the Environmental Working Group and ‘Big Organic’ manipulate pesticide data to scare people

Steve Savage | 
Consumers have a legitimate desire for transparency when it comes to their food - particularly when it comes to the ...
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Viewpoint: European organic industry’s obsession with ‘natural’ threatens CRISPR innovations and hurts the environment

Ludger Wess | 
What is nature? What is natural? Philosophers have been arguing about this since antiquity. Supporters of organic farming seem to ...
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Viewpoint: Why organic farming activists oppose New Breeding Techniques (NBTs)

David Zaruk | 
There was a brief moment in 2015 where organic farming researchers were having an open discussion on adopting certain innovative ...
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list highlights ‘meaningless distinctions’ between organic and conventional foods

Steve Savage | 
On April 10, the Environmental Working Group – an NGO funded by big organic marketers – released its annual “Dirty Dozen List” ...
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Strange bedfellows: American Academy of Pediatrics allies with Environmental Working Group, known for anti-science messages

Andrew Porterfield | 
On the subjects of organics and pesticides, the American Academy of Pediatrics finds itself supporting the Environmental Working Group, an ...
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How ‘open source’ seed producers from the US to India are changing global food production

Rachel Cernansky | 
Around the world, plant breeders are resisting what they see as corporate control of the food supply by making seeds ...
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From GMO hater to biotechnology advocate: One person’s Facebook journey

Julie Mellor-Trupp | 
An anti-GMO, pro-organic mom became a staunch defender of modern agriculture following a social media encounter that prompted her to ...
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How Russia tried to turn America against GMOs and agricultural biotechnology and sow ideological discord

Andrew Porterfield | 
How serious was secret Russian interventionism when it comes to creating public discord over US farming and agricultural trade policy? ...
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USDA data confirm organic yields significantly lower than with conventional farming

Steve Savage | 
Government data comparing yields of organic vs. conventional farms finds a sharp yield edge for conventional on more than 84 ...
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GMO labeling emerges as hot-button issue in organic and conventional food industry fights

Marc Brazeau | 
Editor's note: This article is part three of a three-part series by Marc Brazeau on his 2018 predictions on food, ...
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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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Are seed patent protections abused by Monsanto and other agro-corporations?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Anti-GMO critics often claim major agricultural companies use seed patents to control farmers rights, which they say also limits innovation ...
Viewpoint: If your interest is sustainability, organic and GMO labels won't inform you

Viewpoint: If your interest is sustainability, organic and GMO labels won’t inform you

Maria Trainer | 
Focusing on tools and technologies—such as genetic engineering—can reduce agriculture's environmental footprint and promote sustainability, writes geneticist Maria Trainer ...
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