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2015-04-21 | permalink
Taiwan's Food and Drug Administration on Friday dismissed concerns of genetically modified wheat grown in the United States entering Taiwan's market, saying Taiwan bans imports of such wheat.
2015-04-21 | permalink
When the Washington Post chooses to pen an insulting, condescending editorial targeting entire nations speaking up against Western impropriety, one can just as well assume the precise opposite of whatever narrative the Post is trying to push forward is true.
2015-04-16 | permalink
In January 2001, I went to California's Monterey coast for the Asilomar ecological conference. About 300 people met in Watsonville to take a bus tour through farms in the prosperous Pajaro Valley near Watsonville.
2015-04-16 | permalink
March 2015 was an eventful month for the subject of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food. The two tempests stirred up by recent news and all the other issues in this long-running debate look to be headed for some kind of resolution this year – although the two sides are no closer today than they’ve ever been.
2015-04-16 | permalink
An internal document seen by EurActiv discloses Commission plans to give member states the final say on whether or not to accept GMO imports. EurActiv France reports.
2015-04-16 | permalink
This morning 300 peasants organized by La Via Campesina occupied the meeting of the Brazil National Biosafety Technical Commission (CTNBio) in Brasilia, which was convening to discuss the release of three new varieties of transgenic plants in Brazil including a request by FuturaGene to legalize their genetically engineered eucalyptus trees. The CTNBio meeting was interrupted and eventually cancelled.
2015-04-15 | permalink
In what can only be described as a public relations disaster for Monsanto, the company has been forced to admit Wednesday that it financially supported the legal defense of the farmer who contaminated Steve Marsh’s farm in Western Australia.
2015-04-15 | permalink
African governments must do more to control the planting of genetically modified (GM) crops that could affect smallholders, says a report by Friends of the Earth International.
2015-04-15 | permalink
Litigation over China's rejection of a biotech trait could set an important precedent, experts say.
2015-04-15 | permalink
A leaked proposal from the European Commission for changes to regulation of genetically modified food and feed has been met with heavy criticism today.
2015-04-14 | permalink
The Crispr-Cas technique for editing single genes offers huge potential. But scientists must take care not to go too fast for public opinion
2015-04-14 | permalink
South Dakota farmers represent the nation's most ardent supporters of genetically modified organisms, but proposed Environmental Protection Agency regulations could curb the state's heavy use of modified seed.
2015-04-14 | permalink
Today the Brazilian Technical Commission on Biosafety (CTNBio) formally approved an industry request to release genetically engineered (GE) eucalyptus trees. The application was made by FuturaGene, a company owned by Brazilian pulp and paper company Suzano.
2015-04-14 | permalink
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) continue to be hot button topic on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond. What rules govern international trade in GM food?
2015-04-14 | permalink
Seeds are under attack everywhere. Under corporate pressure, laws in many countries increasingly put limitations on what farmers can do with their seeds and with the seeds they buy. Seed saving, a thousand-year-old practice which forms the basis of farming, is fast becoming criminalised. What can we do about this?
2015-04-09 | permalink
The protracted debate on the National Biotechnology and Biosafety (or GMO) Bill returned to the spotlight on Tuesday, with scientists blaming politicians for consulting constituents instead of experts on such technical issues.
2015-04-09 | permalink
The giant company Monsanto has an entire department focusing on discrediting any information out there that makes them look bad, including a recent report that said their popular herbicide Roundup is probably carcinogenic, so says the news website The Daily Kos.
2015-04-09 | permalink
While local consumers and scientists are concerned about the commercialization of genetically modified corn in Vietnam, two companies have received the most important nod to distribute the maize in the country.
2015-04-09 | permalink
Producers in the breadbasket country say the US agribusiness giant clinched accords so that exporters charge farmers an additional fee for royalties.
2015-04-09 | permalink
Synthetic biologists have a vision. Researchers in this young field, who build ‘devices’ from engineered genes and other molecular components, imagine a future in which products such as drugs, chemicals, fuels and food are manufactured by microbes. These devices could even be wired up to create cellular computers, much as electronic transistors are wired up to make microprocessors (see Nature doi.org/3fz; 2013).
2015-04-09 | permalink
Azerbaijan can jail any person - importers or salespersons – engaged in sale of genetically modified products in the country. The naturally rich country prohibits the import and trade of genetically modified plants, as well as use in food of genetically modified elements.
2015-04-07 | permalink
A British Columbia-based company, Okanagan Specialty Fruits Inc., has developed a genetically modified apple that doesn't brown when cut or bruised. Last week, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health Canada announced the decision to allow the fruit to be grown and sold within Canada.
2015-04-07 | permalink
A new study upholds value of traditional methods 'shown to actually increase food supplies and reduce the environmental impact of production'. Common Dreams staff writer, Lauren McCauley, reports.
2015-04-07 | permalink
On March 25, a bipartisan bill was resubmitted to the House of Representatives that would require the FDA to review genetically engineered ingredients intended for food and to decide on a case-by-case basis if a "contains GMOs" label is necessary for a resulting food product. Perhaps more importantly – and more contentious – the bill also would prevent individual states from creating their own GMO labeling laws.
2015-04-07 | permalink
With lower commodity prices, farmers are rethinking their budgets, input costs and premiums.
2015-04-07 | permalink
The leading producer of genetically engineered seeds and herbicides Monsanto reported lower earnings in the first half of 2015 caused by weaker sales, according to a press release issued by the company on Wednesday.
2015-04-02 | permalink
The sordid sequence of events that opened the floodgates for the genetic takeover of the American food supply — that is, the mass introduction of untested genetically-engineered (GE) food ingredients on the sly — is outlined in an eye-opening new book by American public interest lawyer Steve Druker, entitled Altered Genes, Twisted Truth.
2015-04-02 | permalink
Three activists carrying a refrigerator to set up on the street to attract attention to problems faced by the country’s farmers in competing with genetically-modified foods, or GMO foods, from abroad.
2015-04-02 | permalink
With recent government approval of potatoes that don't bruise and apples that don't brown, a new generation of genetically modified foods is headed to grocery shelves.
2015-04-02 | permalink
Butanediol isn’t exactly the flashiest product on the market: with a four-carbon chain bounded by alcohol groups, the thick, colorless liquid is one of those “industrial chemicals” that makes the eyes glaze over. But the diminutive molecule is worth some serious cash, with an estimated global market cap of $2 billion.
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