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Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe
Intuition can encourage opinions that are contrary to the facts. That, and it's hard to shake labels like frankenfood.
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Growing Doubt: A Scientist's Experience of GMOs
''I now believe, as a much more experienced scientist, that GMO crops still run far ahead of our understanding of their risks.''
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CRISPR Is Going To Revolutionize Our Food System—And Start A New War Over GMOs
In five years, there might be a little CRISPR-edited corn in your breakfast cereal or CRISPR-edited wheat in your pasta. CRISPR'd tomatoes and CRISPR'd pork might follow. There's already a little CRISPR in your yogurt. It's not hyperbolic to say that CRISPR-Cas9—new technology that makes it possible to quickly and easily edit DNA—is changing the future of food. The method could eventually be used to tweak almost anything we eat, selecting traits that can make agriculture more environmentally...
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The Great GMO Cover-Up #2 Companies Hide Dangers; Attack Scientists
Biotech companies point to stacks of industry studies as proof that their genetically engineered foods are safe. But their "proof," it turns out, is just "Tobacco Science"— research carefully designed to hide dangers. Independent studies, on the other hand, feature GMO-fed animals suffering from organ damage, tumors, endocrine and immune system dysfunction, and premature death.
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GM food generally safe for humans and the environment, report says
Genetically manipulated food remains generally safe for humans and the environment, a high-powered science advisory board declared in a report on Tuesday. The National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine concluded that changing the genetics of what we eat does not produce the “Frankenfood” monster some opponents claim – but is not feeding the world with substantially increased yields, as proponents promised.
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107 Nobel laureates sign letter blasting Greenpeace over GMOs
More than 100 Nobel laureates have signed a letter urging Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The letter asks Greenpeace to cease its efforts to block introduction of a genetically engineered strain of rice that supporters say could reduce Vitamin-A deficiencies causing blindness and death in children in the developing world.
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Zika virus: Floridians fear 'Pandora's box' of genetically altered mosquitos
The Florida Keys are three months away from a straw poll vote on whether to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes on an island just east of Key West, and the tourist destination is awash in lawn signs. Alongside the typical signs to vote for court clerk, judge, sheriff or school board are signs that showcase the overhead view of a mosquito and read: “NO CONSENT to release of genetically modified mosquitoes”. For the last five years, the biotechnology company Oxitec has been developing a plan to experimentally...
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First GMO ever produced by genetic engineering poisoned thousands of Americans
The dangers of GMOs in the present day are the subject of much debate, but few can deny that the first genetically engineered (GE) products were truly dangerous. In fact, few people can talk about it at all, because most people have never even heard about these early products or the damage they caused. Alliance for Bio-Integrity executive director Steven M. Druker relayed this information is his book, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science...
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Bayer says clinches $66 billion Monsanto takeover
German drug and crop chemical maker Bayer clinched a $66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto on Wednesday, ending months of wrangling with a third sweetened offer that marks the largest all-cash deal on record. The $128-a-share deal, up from Bayer's previous offer of $127.50 a share, has emerged as the signature deal in a consolidation race that has roiled the agribusiness sector in recent years, due to shifting weather patterns, intense competition in grain exports and a souring global farm economy.
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Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops
The controversy over genetically modified crops has long focused on largely unsubstantiated fears that they are unsafe to eat. But an extensive examination by The New York Times indicates that the debate has missed a more basic problem — genetic modification in the United States and Canada has not accelerated increases in crop yields or led to an overall reduction in the use of chemical pesticides.
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Brazil Refuses GMO Imports From United States
Brazil joins the growing number of countries rejecting GMO imports from the United States. Brazil joins the growing number of countries rejecting GMO imports from the United States. In the last decade, bio-technology and gene modification in large-scale agriculture has become a controversy driving a wedge into the industry. In 2015, 19 European nations had declared a ban on GM crops, citing political, health and environmental concerns.
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Inside the Network Funding GMO Propaganda and PR to Cover Up Toxic Chemical Risks
Several vocal supporters of GMOs and pesticides are funded by the same groups that finance climate science denial. British writer George Monbiot has a warning for those of us trying to grasp the new political realities in the U.S. and the U.K.: “We have no hope of understanding what is coming until we understand how the dark money network operates,” he wrote in the Guardian.
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The Scary Thing About GMO That Nobody’s Talking About
The Flailing, Fact-Free Hysteria Around GMO
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How the transgenic petunia carnage of 2017 began
Growers destroy plants after biologist spots forgotten flowers. By By Kelly Servick. (May. 24, 2017)
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EPA Official Accused of Helping Monsanto ‘Kill’ Cancer Study
The Environmental Protection Agency official who was in charge of evaluating the cancer risk of Monsanto Co.’s Roundup allegedly bragged to a company executive that he deserved a medal if he could kill another agency’s investigation into the herbicide’s key chemical.
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Genetically modified salmon hits the shelves in Canada – and sells quickly
Canadian supermarkets have become the first in the world to stock genetically modified fish, and about five tonnes of GM salmon have been sold in the country in recent months. The sales figure was revealed in the most recent earnings report of the US-based AquaBounty Technologies, whose hybrid Atlantic salmon – which contains a gene from a Chinook salmon and a gene from the ocean pout – has been at the heart of a heated debate over transgenic animals as food.
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Scientists have created orange vitamin-A rich bananas that could save hundreds of thousands of children
Scientists in Australia have created golden-orange-fleshed bananas rich in pro-vitamin A that could save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children who die from a deficiency of this vitamin every year. The “biofortified” bananas were developed by taking genes from a species of banana from Papua New Guinea, which is high in provitamin A but only produces small bunches, and combined it with that of a Cavendish banana, the high-yielding species most people are familiar with. Provitamin A is converted by the body into vitamin A.
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How Monsanto’s GM cotton sowed trouble in Africa
When America’s biotech giant tried to export its know-how to small cotton farmers in Burkina Faso, there was a problem: The quality sank.
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Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Hit on Organic Food
Henry Miller is still failing to disclose his collaborations with Monsanto as he attacks their critics and competitors .
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Bill Gates calls GMOs 'perfectly healthy' — and scientists say he's right
Bill Gates has a message for those advocating against genetically modified organisms: I'm disappointed.
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