Viewpoint: The EPA’s current regulatory regime restricts farmers’ ability to fight pests and climate change

Viewpoint: The EPA’s current regulatory regime restricts farmers’ ability to fight pests and climate change

Emma Kovak | 
Plant pests and disease have a massive global impact, causing the loss of 20–40% of crop production and costing over USD 220 ...
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CRISPR crop gene editing benefits for agriculture highlighted in US Senate testimony

Aaron Callahan | 
On April 23rd, Georg Jander, a professor from the Boyce Thompson Institute, addressed an audience in the offices of the U.S ...
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Viewpoint: Philippines court bungled its interpretation of the precautionary principle in suspending the growing of Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice

Antonio Contreras | 
Principle 15 of the 1992 Rio Declaration laid out the premise of the precautionary rule in international environmental law. It states: ...
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As Republican-led states across the US mull lab-grown meat labeling and bans, Britain moves forward with cell-based protein regulations

Taly Dvorkis | 
In the wake of several Republican-led states in the US pushing for a ban or limit on the sales of ...
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Missouri follows Iowa and Idaho in exploring legislation to limit lawsuits against makers of glyphosate and other pesticides deemed safe by federal government

Quinn Coffman | 
The Missouri House gave initial approval to a bill that could protect pesticide manufacturers from some cancer lawsuits ...
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As Switzerland mulls ending ban on crop biotechnology, organic farmers and environmental NGOs intensify campaign against reform

Cyril Pinto | 
At the end of next year, genetically modified plants could be allowed in Switzerland. An alliance of organic farmers and ...
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Next battleground in US culture wars: Republican states advance bans on cell-cultured foods

Move over, electric vehicles and gas stoves: A new product is taking center stage in the culture wars ...
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Only 11 of 54 African countries grow genetically engineered crops. This study explains why and offers guidance on how to increase acceptance

Gideon Sadikiel Mmbando | 
Adoption of GM crops has been extremely slow in African countries; only eleven of the fifty-four have current approved their ...
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Viewpoint: Banning fledgling lab-grown meat industry nothing more than ‘conservative nanny states prohibiting the voluntary consumption of products that mostly don’t exist yet’

Catherine Rampell | 
Last year, the Agriculture Department approved some companies to sell lab-grown chicken; other lab-cultured meats (such as beef, pork and ...
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Climate instability concerns across Europe put pressure on farmers, spurs calls for reform of crop gene editing regulations

Nazimi Açıkgöz | 
Leveraging the proposed European Green Deal (EGD) announced in December 2019, the EU aims to become the first climate-neutral continent ...
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Viewpoint: The case against banning neonicotinoid pesticides

Bill Wirtz | 
As Consumer Choice Center, we believe that Bill H.706 – which plans to ban the use of neonicotinoid treated seeds ...
From 72 to 400: US announces expansion of number of agricultural chemicals it will monitor

From 72 to 400: US announces expansion of number of agricultural chemicals it will monitor

Sara Talpos | 
For several years, biologist Nathan Donley has worried about the future of a pesticide database run by the U.S. Geological ...
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Viewpoint: Here’s why the European Parliament’s plan for loosening crop biotech editing regulations is two steps forward, three steps backward

André Heitz, Haute-Savoie | 
Many welcomed the European Parliament's adoption, with a narrow majority of 307 votes for, 263 against and 41 abstentions, of ...
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Viewpoint: By engineering block on Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice, Greenpeace ‘puts the whole environmental movement into disrepute’

Mark Lynas | 
First, a word of warning. If you donate money to Greenpeace, you might think you’re helping save the whales or ...
Viewpoint: Sri Lanka's 'tragic' legacy — To encourage sustainable farming, countries cannot ignore food production and socioeconomic trade-offs

Viewpoint: Sri Lanka’s ‘tragic’ legacy — To encourage sustainable farming, countries cannot ignore food production and socioeconomic trade-offs

Hannah Ritchie | 
Sri Lanka is a particularly dramatic case showing how rash and poorly designed policies can lead to tragic consequences. In ...
European Ombudsman rejects environmental advocacy group claims that European Commission mishandled favorable impact assessment of gene-edited crops, and closes case

European Ombudsman rejects environmental advocacy group claims that European Commission mishandled favorable impact assessment of gene-edited crops, and closes case

Emily O'Reilly | 
Releasing genetically modified organisms into the environment and placing them on the EU market as food or feed is subject ...
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Rollout of Vitamin A enhanced GMO Golden Rice in the Philippines blocked by surprise court ruling

Jitendra Choubey | 
n a significant development, a court of Philippines ruled against the government's actions that granted permits for the commercial release ...
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Viewpoint: Iowa farmer explains support for state bill to restrict suits against manufacturers of glyphosate and other pesticides that follow federal guidelines

Jeff Edler | 
I was proud to join my Iowa Senate colleagues in passing Senate File 2412 this legislative session. As a farmer, I know ...
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Debating sustainable agriculture: Weed management and crop biotechnology

Jon Entine | 
Any discussion of crop chemicals must consider the broad sweep of agricultural history, the pivotal moments of technological innovation, and ...
Forty European health insurers press EU to regulate phase out of agricultural chemicals by midcentury

Forty European health insurers press EU to regulate phase out of agricultural chemicals by midcentury

Forty health insurance mutuals from France, Belgium and Poland have jointly called on the EU not to abandon the goal of ...
Ghana approves 14 new genetically engineered seeds, including pest resistant and nutrition-enhanced varieties

Ghana approves 14 new genetically engineered seeds, including pest resistant and nutrition-enhanced varieties

Muniru Osman | 
As a farmer, I was recently excited to read a report that disclosed Ghana’s National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has approved ...
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Is tilapia a human-made freak that we should avoid — or an evolutionary rockstar?

Ricki Lewis | 
Posts were appearing on my Facebook feed warning against the dangers of eating tilapia. So I decided to do a ...
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Diverging paths of developing giants: GM seed approvals surge in China while Indian innovation blocked by biotech barriers

Sharad Raghavan | 
China’s moves since October 2023 to approve several genetically modified (GM) strains of maize and soybean have shined a spotlight on ...
‘Super banana' controversy: Why orange-hued, blindness-fighting ‘Banana21’ that African researchers spent 20+ years crafting might never make it to market

‘Super banana’ controversy: Why orange-hued, blindness-fighting ‘Banana21’ that African researchers spent 20+ years crafting might never make it to market

Jeremiah Budin | 
Scientists in Uganda have created a genetically modified banana in the hopes of saving thousands of children in the country who die ...
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GLP podcast: RFK Jr. recycles ‘gay frogs’ pesticide conspiracy; GMO v organic debate is over; Scientist behind gene-edited twins back in the lab

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
RFK, Jr. has resurrected the long-debunked speculation that atrazine, a low-toxicity weedkiller, causes sexual dysphoria in frogs—and humans. The oft-reported ...
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37 Nobel laureates and 1,500 researchers are calling for relaxation of EU gene editing regulations

Siri Elise Dybdal | 
As regulations on genetic technology are now to be reassessed in both Norway and the EU, researchers are hoping for ...
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