In Kenya, genetically-engineered cotton seeds designed to resist African bollworm, have officially been approved for commercial planting.
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In Kenya, genetically-engineered cotton seeds designed to resist African bollworm, have officially been approved for commercial planting.
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According to an announcement by the International Rice Research Institute, the Philippines Department of Agriculture-Bureau of Plant Industry has stated that it has found GMO golden rice to be “as safe as conventional rice” — even though no animal feeding studies have been released to the public that could attest to this.
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Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) attached a rider to this year’s appropriations bill, which would require GM salmon approved prior to the GMO-labeling standards being passed to include “genetically engineered” on its packaging.
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Food products produced using gene-editing technology could go on sale in Japan by the end of the year despite no specific labeling rules being in place.
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In a landmark decision, South Africa has rejected the commercial cultivation of Monsanto’s GMO corn, citing doubts about its claims of drought tolerance and yield.
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The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) has issued a stark warning against the deregulation of gene editing and RNA interference.
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GMO advocates want to “start playing God” to save the American chestnut tree. Previously, we have written about how dangerous of an idea this is.
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Natural Grocers’ Alan Lewis on the tremendous risks that synthetic biology poses.
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Certain policies, strongly promoted by the Gates Foundation, open Africa to the multinational seed companies in the name of modernization, but they undermine climate resilience and food security for Africa’s small-scale farmers.
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The fiasco with gene-edited cattle is just more proof that government oversight of this technology is essential.
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The Center for Food Safety is calling on the FDA to recall uncooked Impossible Burgers, which contain a GMO ingredient still under the agency’s review.
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The GMO cotton plant developed by Texas A&M University scientists uses the very, very worrisome RNAi silencing technology.
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Russia is contemplating moving forward on producing genetically-modified children, and Vladimir Putin’s daughter is thought to be heavily involved in the decision-making process.
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The beloved avocado becoming another gene-edited crop is a very unsettling but real prospect.
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Traces of the GMO insects have been detected in the natural population of mosquitoes, which was never supposed to happen.
Read Article Oxitec filed an application with the EPA to release of a new type of GMO mosquito in the Florida Keys to kill a species known to carry fatal diseases.
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Proving the point yet again that gene editing is far from perfect, the FDA found antibiotic-resistant, non-bovine DNA in gene-edited cattle.
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A World Resources Institute report said that more GMOs are needed to feed the estimated 10 billion people by 2050, and herbicide-resistant crops should not influence policy decisions.
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USDA investigators last week identified a second GMO wheat variety from samples found in a fallow farm field in Washington state.
Read Article Not surprisingly, GE-salmon may first show up in U.S. restaurants or university cafeterias, which are not required to tell diners that their fish is genetically modified.
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This is ominous. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the USDA, FDA and EPA to ease rules for approving genetically modified crops and other agricultural biotechnology.
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The USDA announced the discovery of unapproved GMO wheat plants in Washington state and said there is no evidence that it had entered the food supply.
Read Article AquaBounty Technologies has announced the start of GMO salmon production at the company’s Indiana farm, a week after it has received its first shipment of GMO salmon eggs.
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