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1. The major problem appears to be collusion between the seed companies and the Regulatory and research establishment in ...
Ag and food writer says GMO deregulation lobby live “in a fantasy land of precision, predictability and imagined safety”; ...
It’s time to step up the opposition to designer babies, says Marcy Darnovsky of the Center for Genetics and Society ...
The USDA wants to deregulate (approve for release into the wild) the GM American chestnut tree in spite of the fact that it ...
Over millennia we have evolved with our food supply, relying on the collective wisdom of farmers to grow foods that sustain human life. Increasingly, however, food is being produced by business ...
Save Our Seeds and GMWatch explore the fate of the bold claims made for agricultural GMOs Whatever happened to GM Golden Rice? And wasn’t GM salmon supposed to revolutionise aquaculture? Three decades ...
After years of being detected at alarming levels, the pesticide glyphosate is being found at lower levels, on average, in cereal and other oat-based products that children and adults enjoy, according ...
The French government's food safety agency ANSES has demolished the European Commission’s proposal for a definition of a class of new GM plants (so-called Category I NGT plants) that would be exempted ...
Leukemia findings are especially striking – potentially lending support to plaintiffs in court cases who allege that Roundup exposure caused their blood cancer A comprehensive carcinogenicity study on ...
Glyphosate-based herbicides contain toxic heavy metals such as arsenic, lead, chromium and nickel, a new study has found. These are not declared and are normally banned due to their toxicity. They are ...
Recent scientific findings have revealed chromothripsis-like effects after the application of CRISPR/Cas gene editing in the genome of tomatoes, reports Testbiotech in an article commenting on a ...
Recently NPR ran a story reporting that the GM purple tomato, genetically engineered with genes from snapdragons to contain high levels of the antioxidant anthocyanin, is now on sale to home gardeners ...