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Category Archives: Biotechnology
California EPA to List Glyphosate as Known to the State to Cause Cancer
In case you haven’t already heard… The California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has posted notice of its intent to list glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup® and other related herbicides, as “known to the … Continue reading
GMOs and Democracy
The start of a comment made in response to my last post—“Maybe it is undemocratic but in this case…”—still bothers me. It also worries me when I hear plant molecular biologists say: “I would normally be in favor of labeling, … Continue reading
Tell the US House of Reps: Defeat HR1599 Because It’s Downright UnAmerican!
I just signed a petition asking members of the U.S. House of Representatives to vote down HR 1599, the deceptively named “Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act,” which would make it illegal for state governments to pass GMO labeling laws … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
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Let USDA APHIS Know that GMOs Should be Regulated
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has been regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops over the last two decades based on whether development of those products involved use of organisms deemed “plant pests.” (Whether that strategy has been science-based … Continue reading
The Absurdity of Claiming that “All GMOs are Safe”
In an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Mark Lynas recently wrote that “There is an equivalent level of scientific consensus on both issues…that climate change is real and genetically modified foods are safe.” But comparing the issues of … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged animal feeding studies, Bt corn, Bt pollen, CDC, Coordinated Framework, EPA, FDA
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What’s up with the Media Response to Chipotle going GMO-Free?
A notice on the side panel of my box of Cheerios™ says “Not made with genetically modified ingredients.” But when General Mills, the company that manufactures this “Toasted Whole Grain Oat Cereal,” decided to make this one product in its … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Big Food, Big Soda, Cheerios, Chipotle, General Mills, GMO ingredients, GMOs, Meat, Media
1 Comment
Time To Talk “Conflicts of Interest” In Relation to GMOs
Scientific conflicts of interest have been in the news a lot lately. For example, a federal judge recently ruled that various members of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee had conflicts of interest and, consequently, the chairman and three … Continue reading
Exposure of Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Land-Phase Amphibians to Dow Agrosciences’ Pesticide Cocktail?
I’ve already expressed my concern over the fact that U.S. government agencies recently unleashed a ticking bomb with regard to the genetically engineered (GE) “superweed” problem we’re already experiencing in the United States when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged EPA, Flavr Savr tomato, GE corn, Genetic Engineering, herbicide-resistance, superweeds, sustainability, USDA
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EPA Expresses Concern Regarding Potential Development of 2,4-D-Resistant Weeds
I am not surprised that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) went ahead and registered Enlist Duo™, Dow Agrosciences’ pesticide cocktail made for spraying on corn and soybean crops genetically engineered (GE) to be tolerant of it. Disappointed, yes. Surprised? … Continue reading
Hyper-propagandizing crop genetic engineering in The New Yorker?
I was very disappointed with Michael Specter’s recent piece in The New Yorker called “Seeds of Doubt: An activist’s controversial crusade against genetically modified crops.” For one thing, Specter didn’t seem to understand the basics of crop genetic engineering (GE) itself, … Continue reading
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