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20 answers to FAQs about GMOs: Safety, butterflies, glyphosate and more

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor's note: The original ...
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Talking Biotech: Insects, crop protection–and Barbara McClintock on the $10 bill?

Richard Levine discusses protecing crops from pests; Folta and Levine discuss putting Barbara McClintock on the $10 bill ...

GM humans? Genes ‘jump’ naturally between species all the time

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  Scientists have discovered a ...
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Humans aren’t the only species that can make GMOs

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A study published September 17 in the ...

US overturns approval of sulfoxaflor, only neonicotinoid approved in EU

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A worldwide dispute over ...
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Un-trendy reasons NOT to feed your family organic

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. When I read Mamavation's ...

Chipotle’s anti-GMO claims sow legal minefield for companies advertising themselves as non GMO

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Chipotle says it will ...
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Bees to birds: Have neonics and other pesticides ushered in a bird apocalypse?

The hysteria generated by a select group of advocacy scientists warning that bees are endangered is now being focused on ...

Landrigan and Benbrook get it wrong on GMOs in New England Journal of Medicine

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis.  In an opinion piece was ...

Activist beekeepers sue EPA for not moving to restrict neonicotinoids

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. With their livelihoods in ...
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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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Next generation GMOs? Monsanto experiments with modifying crops by spraying them with RNA

Using RNA interference technology, which temporarily turns off the activity of a gene, Monsanto thinks it has hit on an alternative to ...
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Pollinator myth: Are bees responsible for one third of global food, heightening crisis? More like 7%

Aren’t bees responsible for a third of the world’s food, and 90 percent of global nutrition — claims invoked by ...
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Beemageddon? Honeybee numbers at 20 year high

You've heard the news about honeybees. "Beepocalypse," they've called it. Beemageddon. America's honeybees are dying, putting honey production and $15 billion worth ...
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Bees, breastfeeding and epigenetics: Can nutrition alter our genes?

What a bee eats can determine Queen Bee status. Although our eating habits may not deliver us a royal life, ...
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Do activists claiming pesticide Beemageddon really care about bee survival or is it tactical ploy?

We know that activist groups really care about bees. In 2013, about 200 activists held a funeral for 50,000 bumblebees that ...

GM moths may be eco-safe way to curb pest

Scientists from the Oxford University spin-off company Oxitec say they have developed a way of genetically modifying and controlling an ...
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Bees not dying; Europe should lift neonics ban

Brussels banned a class of pesticides to avert a ‘beepocalypse’ that wasn’t happening. Now bugs threaten crops, and farmers may ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...

UK lifts EU ban on neonics to allow farmers to fight pests

Farmers will be able to use blacklisted pesticides linked to serious harm in bees after the UK government temporarily lifted ...

Audio: Bill Nye suggests ‘Proudly GMO’ label

Just in case Part 1 wasn’t controversial enough, Bill Nye and Chuck Nice are back to answer new fan questions ...
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How to scare people into supporting bad policy on bees and other pollinators

If you are a scientist with an agenda, nothing works better than cooking up a "modeling" study: junk in, junk ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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GLP’s Top 6 Stories for the Week

This past week, here are the #TOP6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world. Please ...
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