Tag: Gmo - Page 2
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Should We Create a Chickenosaurus (Dinochicken)?
This sounds like science fiction. But paleontologist Jack Horner of Montana wants to recreate the dinosaurs, using DNA from a chicken. Hasn't this guy seen Jurassic Park? Or any of the sequels? He recently gave a TED talk on the
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Organic Trade Association Ripe for Change
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) was hit with accusations of corruption last week in a short documentary released by an anonymous group calling themselves Organic Spies. The OTA has
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Organic Trade Association Responds to Critics About GMO Stance
The Organic Trade Association (OTA) has responded to levelled against it in a recently released short documentary. I wrote about this film earlier this week along with additional commentary by organic food pioneer and
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Charges of Corruption Taint Organic Trade Association (video)
A new short film claims that the board of the Organic Trade Association (OTA) is undermining the ethic of of the organic movement. The film, embedded below, was released by an anonymous
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Genetically Modified Cows To Produce 'Human' Milk
Details are a bit thin on this one, but my initial reaction to this is an overwhelming grossness: Reports from Times of India are that researchers in China have genetically modified some 200 cows so that the
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New Research Finds That Roundup Ready GMO Crops May Cause Animal Miscarriages
Here's another reason the recent approval of GMO alfalfa and sugar beets was a bad idea: researchers claim that Roundup Ready GE crops contain an organism, completely unknown until now, that
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Can't We All Just Get Along? The Myth of GMO and Organic Coexistence
Lately, the USDA is progressively siding with biotechnology instead of the organic food movement. Organic farming had a few wins including the decision from US District Court Judge Jeffrey White who ruled that the GMO
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USAID's 'New Vision of Agriculture' Unsurprisingly Like the Old Vision of Industrial Monoculture
This should come to no surprise to anyone even casually familiar with how cosy ever recent US administration has been with Big Ag (and Monsanto in particular): GM Watch reports that at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland the director of USAID stood
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Did the "Organic Elite" Sell Out to Monsanto?
By now, most of us have read the miscellaneous (numerous) statements from companies like Whole Foods, Organic Valley, Stonyfield, and the Non-GMO Project in defense of their participation in the
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Fish & Wildlife Service Pulls GMO Crops from Wildlife Refuges in the U.S. Northeast
As part of a lawsuit settlement, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announced last week it would stop (illegally) planting genetically engineered crops on all its refuges in 12 states in the northeast, according to
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More Wikileaks Cables: US Pressured the Vatican, Spain to Support GM Crops - 'The Rest of Europe Will Follow'
We've already heard, thanks to Wikileaks, that U.S. officials under the Bush administration advised retaliation against Europe for standing against genetically modified crops. But the leaks uncover pressure coming from
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What's Wrong With the Bill Gates & Bono Approach to Saving the World?
The UN held a summit on the Millennium Development Goals at the end of September to review the progress on eradicating poverty and hunger, combatting HIV/AIDS, achieving universal education, environmental
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Bush Admin Officials Advised Retaliation Against Europe For Rejecting GM Crops: Wikileaks
More from Wikileaks of interest to the environmentally-minded, shedding light on the mindset of the Bush administration on the European Union's actions on genetically modified crops: US Ambassador to
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GM Cotton Fails - Insect Pests Thriving on Indian Plants When They Should Be Dead
An article in the latest issue of the journal Current Science raises serious questions about the long-term viability of genetically-modified Bt cotton to actually do what it's intended to do, increase pest resistance.
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Papal Science Advisors Say World's Poor Need GM Crops & Scientists Have Moral Duty to Develop Them
The Vatican's science advisors have come out in support of genetically modified crops, saying that they scientists have both the right and moral duty to produce them to help the world's poor, New Scientist reports.
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If Genetically Modified Trees Could Help Stop Climate Change Would You Support Them?
Some new research in Bioscience outlines different ways in which genetically modifying trees and plants to help them increase their carbon sequestration potential to fight climate change--we're talking billions of
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While Bill Gates Wants Africa to Embrace Industrial GM Food, Italy Fines Franken-Maize Growing Farmer
Interesting GM food media intersection in the past two days: Reuters reports that an Italian court has fined a farmer for illegally growing GM maize, cultivation of which is banned in Italy; meanwhile, in The Guardian
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Genetically Modified Crops Banned Around the World (Slideshow)
While some farmers (and governments) support the use of genetically modified crops for their higher yield quantities and pest and weed resistance, others point out that the long-term effects of these gene adjustments just
