Val Giddings
Los Angeles symbolic GMO ban reinforces misinformation
The Los Angeles City Council voted in late October to draft an ordinance that would prohibit the sale or planting ...
National Wildlife Refuge System bans on GMOs and neonics lack transparency, scientific rationale
While not identifying any specific evidence that pesticides or genetically modified crops might cause environmental or human damage, the NWRS ...
Consumer Union’s Michael Hansen accused of misleading legislators on GMO safety
The ideologically driven, anti-technology campaign to restrict access to safe, sustainable and affordable foods improved through biotechnology got a boost ...
Glyphosate toxicity study in ‘pay for play journal’ based on flawed experimental design
A study promoted by anti-GMO groups that the commonly used pesticide glyphosate (Roundup), which is used with some GM crops, ...
Are farmers around the world less eager to embrace crop biotechnology?
A recent report in Bloomberg suggested that crop biotechnology is not being embraced as eagerly in industrialized countries, but the ...
In conflict with GMO farmers, do organic farmers seek special treatment
March 3, 2014 story from Reuters by Carey Gillam presents claims by organic farmers that the federal government needs to step in to ...
