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- Would Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman Have Signed that GMO Letter? From what I have read about him, I am pretty sure that Richard Feynman would not have signed the recent letter in which a large percentage of our living Nobel laureates urged Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs)…
- 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 …
- 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…
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Tag Archives: ag biotech
Edible Vaccines Against COVID-19? Another Case of Genetic Engineering Déjà vu
Recent reports indicate that plant scientists in Mexico and Canada are working to produce “edible” vaccines against COVID-19. But the idea that fruits or veggies could be genetically engineered (GE) to produce edible vaccines that could be easily shipped, stored … Continue reading
Gene Editing’s Extra DNA Problem: Déjà Vu All Over Again
UC Davis researcher Alison Van Eenennaam described the experience of learning that the “poster animals for the gene-editing revolution” do not, after all, comprise the “same outcome [that] could be achieved by breeding in the farmyard,” like she and her collaborators … Continue reading
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Tagged ag biotech, Agrobacterium, Alison Van Eenennaam, antibiotic resistance, Calgene, CRISPR, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMO, Meat, Nature Biotechnology, Plant Cell, Recombinetics, Regulation of GMOs, Science, Technology, UC Davis, unintended changes in GE crops, unintended effects, USDA
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U.S. Grain Industry Believes USDA APHIS’s “New Proposed Rule [for regulating GMOs] Is Fundamentally Flawed”
I’ve got to give credit to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for persistence. USDA APHIS has proposed new rules for regulating genetically engineered (GE) crop plants (AKA genetically modified organisms: GMOs) … Continue reading
Golden Rice: Of Good Intentions, Insertional Mutants, Human Error, and the Need for Better Regulation of GMOs
After learning that the genetically engineered (GE) Golden Rice “event” being bred into varieties of rice favored by Indian farmers turned out to have a mutation—a mutation created as a result of the genetic engineering process itself (you can check … Continue reading
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Tagged ag biotech, agricultural biotechnology, Agrobacterium, beta-carotene, children, China, Gates Foundation, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMOs, golden rice, Gordon Conway, insertional mutations, Monsanto, NK603 corn, rice, Science, Syngenta, Technology, Vandana Shiva, vitamin A, Zeneca
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Campbell Soup or Monsanto? Who Do You Trust?
How does a company build trust? Campbell Soup and Monsanto appear to be going about it in quite different ways. As reported in The New York Times, the Monsanto Company filed a lawsuit against California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard … Continue reading
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