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Decisions about neonicotinoids should be ‘science-driven not ‘activist-driven’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Neonicotinoid pesticide use is ...
How anti-GMO activists use monarch butterflies as ideological pawn
The anti-GMO movement blames GMOs on the decline of the monarch butterfly, but the problem is more complicated--the result of ...
Finnish research shows ‘no immediate impact’ of neonicotinoids on bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this press release to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Research conducted in Finland ...
Controversial scientist Goulson challenged on study claiming neonicotinoids cause butterfly declines
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. University of Sussex biology ...
Trade and economic growth, not pesticides, major driver of beehive declines?
Declines in bee health have been blamed on pesticides and other factors. A new study suggests that economic changes may ...
It’s all bug spray in the end: Organic pesticides not necessarily safer for bees
Many critics of conventional agriculture claim organic food is grown with "natural" and "botanical" pesticides that are safer than synthetic ...
AquaBounty salmon backgrounder
What is the AquAdvantage salmon? Who is the company behind it? How is this animal biotechnology regulated? ...
Neonicotinoids may impact individual honeybees different than hives
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. French researchers say neonicotinoid ...
American Bird Conservatory launches ‘scare campaign’ about neonics in Congressional food
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the American Bird ...
“Hybridization is not genetic modification” — And other scientifically suspect anti-GMO sayings
Life forms have been genetically modified, for billions of years by nature, and then for the last 11,000 years, in ...
USDA, EPA butt heads on honey bee and pesticide initiative, highlighting lobbying conflicts
The fight over pollinator policy between the USDA and FDA has escalated, with honey bee health and the future of ...
USDA responds to accusations it silenced scientist over neonics
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. USDA is one of ...
Pesticides Part III: Comparing pesticide use in agroecological and conventional agriculture
The World Health Organization's IARC committee categorization of glyphosate has been widely celebrated by anti-GMO activists at the same time ...
Neonicotinoid ban cost UK farmers $33 million, yet no evidence it saves bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Since December 2013, the ...
‘Alarmist rhetoric about neonics’ distracts from addressing legitimate bee health issues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The controversy surrounding neonicotinoid ...
Myth busting: Pesticide use in organic and conventional agriculture-Part II
Our food is filled with many scary sounding chemicals. Here is a why you should be taken in by foodie ...
Myth busting: Pesticide use in organic and conventional agriculture
What is in a name? Plenty! Can pesticides be medicine? Vice versa? As we will attempt to show, there is ...
Entomology study: Neonicotinoids increase yields for most rice farmers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In October 2014, the ...
Lundgren whistleblower complaint claims USDA silencing scientists discussing controversial issues
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Late last year, Jonathan ...
Glyphosate is no bee killer
The science is in. Challenging anti-GMO claims, glyphosate (Roundup) doesn't kill bees, unless you drop a bottle of it on ...
Another bungled correlation study on bee health dangers of neonics
How the belief that neonics are primary threat to honey bees despite hard evidence pointing to Varroa mites and other ...
Genetics and art: Petri dish creations
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chromosomes are these turgid ...
Researchers now believe ‘bees addicted to neonics’ study was wrong
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. What does the media ...
Unlikely alliance: How GMOs and Ecomodernism brought two ideologically opposite moms together
Two moms--both former skeptics of GMOs and from opposite sides of the political spectrum--find common ground in their support of ...
Scare stories on ‘uncontrolled spread’ of GMOs spreading uncontrollably: They’re misguided
The world wide web has become inundated with anti-GMO sentiment, spreading fast like an invasive species and casting GMOs as ...
Glyphosate cleared as danger to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In September, researchers from ...
Activist Ninth Circuit court ruling overturning EPA’s sulfoxflor insecticide approval squeezes citrus industry
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. U.S. citrus farmers are ...
Common organic pesticides (biopesticides) found ‘acutely toxic’ to honey bees
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The honey bee, Apis ...
