Alison Van Eenennaam
Whole Foods embraces slow-growing chickens: Why that’s not so environmentally sustainable
There is a movement, pushed by Whole Foods, to go back to slower-growing chickens. This is problematic from a sustainability ...
Gene editing could provide humane alternative to painful cattle dehorning
Physical dehorning of dairy cattle is a standard practice to protect both human dairy workers and other animals from injury ...
Talking Biotech: What’s keeping disease-resistant GMO bananas from Ugandan farmers?
Ugandan researcher Nassib Mugwanya: GMO bananas are the best tool we have to save bananas from bacterial wilt, but Uganda's ...
Why FDA’s proposed gene-editing regulations could stifle CRISPR research on food animals
A 2017 draft Food and Drug Administration guidance proposes mandatory, multigenerational premarket new animal drug evaluation of all “intentional genomic ...
Viewpoint: Gene editing poised to revolutionize agriculture—if we can fix biotech regulations
In his speech at the recent American Farm Bureau convention, President Trump said his administration was "streamlining regulations that have blocked cutting-edge ...
How foods created with CRISPR and other New Breeding Techniques (NBTs) can earn consumer trust
An Interview with Alison Van Eenennaam, Animal Biotechnology & Genomics Extension Specialist at the University of California-Davis: From your perspective, ...
Viewpoint: Netflix’s ‘Okja’ perpetuates stereotypes about food, farming and scientists
The popular Netflix movie is a disservice to important agricultural research aimed at producing more food with fewer resources, writes ...
Talking Biotech: Should milk, meat and eggs from animals fed GMO crops be labeled?
Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Data shows that products from animals fed genetically engineered crops are no different than those fed ...
Geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam: Genetic engineering could save farm animals from disease
Alison Van Eenennaam is one of agriculture’s leading voices of reason and persuasion in support of good science in food ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO online series promotes fear and ‘less sustainable’ farming
Works like the recently released "GMOs Revealed" are making it more difficult for new agricultural techniques to gain widespread acceptance ...
Study: Food products from livestock raised on GMO feed no different than those fed conventional grain
This review summarizes the available scientific literature on the detection of dietary DNA and protein in animal products and briefly ...
Ecomodernist podcast: Food Evolution film about ‘confirmation bias’ in foodie and anti-GMO community
One of the more surprising reactions to the documentary--and disappointing to scientists--came from organic and agroecology supporters who called it ...
Talking Biotech: Anti-GMO activists say Food Evolution is an ‘agrichemical conspiracy’—Who’s behind the documentary?
Scott Hamilton Kennedy, director of Food Evolution, addresses baseless claims that new GMO documentary is "Monsanto propaganda" ...
Does most public research funding come from industry?
Who funds public research? UC Davis animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam says a funding analysis reveals that most of it ...
Will – And Should – Gene Edited Animals Be Regulated?
Regulations proposed by the FDA on the final day of the Obama Administration suggest the agency wants to regulate gene ...
Glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide linked to liver disease in rats? Researcher Séralini under fire again
Animal geneticist Alison Van Eenennaam walks us through a new study by controversial researcher Giles-Eric Séralini, who once again links ...
FDA proposal to regulate gene edited animals is ‘nonsensical’
Genetic modification of animals is heavily regulated -- so much so that only one major innovation has been approved by ...
UC Davis’ Alison Van Eenennaam’s deep dive into latest Séralini GMOs-are-dangerous paper
The controversial paper by the Séralini team challenges a central tenet of biotech proponents: are GM crops 'substantially equivalent' to ...
‘Agrochemical academic complex’: Should industry fund research?
According to a recent piece in the NYT: Industry funded researchers are shills and the rest are tree-hugging greenies. UC ...
Teenager raped to death in US Animal Research Center (NY Times’ Michael Moss’ F in journalism)
In January 2015, New York Times journalist Michael Moss skewered the research protocols of the US Meat Animal Research Center ...
Alison Van Eenennaam v Jennifer Kuzma: How should hornless cows and gene editing be regulated?
Dairy cows, which come from the Holstein breed, naturally grow horns. On farms, the horns are often physically removed because ...
Alison Van Eenennaam: Anti-GMO activists target public scientists
As the mock trial circus winds down in the Hague, fringe anti-GMO activists plan to reinvigorate their targeting of independent ...
Do researchers need to engage, teach consumers more in GMO debate?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The lack of progress ...
Milk: Not good source of omega-3 fatty acids, even when organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. I have had a ...
Alison Van Eenennaam: Why botched Italian GMO soy study never made science sense
Italian researcher, Federico Infascelli, is under fire for allegedly misrepresenting data in his publications. Regardless of outcome, his data was ...
‘Regulate animal biotechnology based on product rather than process’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . “Modern” ...
Biotech researchers concerned FOIA requests could chill public outreach
Publicly funded researchers have become integrated into public relations and lobbying efforts by both agricultural biotechnology and organic companies, according ...
Talking Biotech: Engineering hornless cows; Blueberry origins
Hornless cattle gene editing: Alison Van Eenennaam; Domestic blueberries: Paul Lyrene ...
