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Canada backs US concerns that Mexico’s proposed American corn ban violates North American trade pact
Canada will back the United States in a trade row with Mexico over genetically modified corn, its trade minister announced ...
Austria opposes EU plan to deregulate crop gene editing after uproar from organic farmers
The European Commission's proposal to ease current restrictions on genetically modified crops has riled up EU organic farming leader Austria ...
Luxembourg — the first EU country to ban glyphosate — has been ordered by a court to reauthorize the weedkiller. Here’s why
Luxembourg announced on [April 3] that it was reauthorizing the marketing of glyphosate-based products, after being the first European Union ...
TikTok chicken conspiracy: No, RNA technology has not been added to animal feed or eggs
"Let's talk about eggs and why there's a massive shortage and a massive increase in pricing. The RNA technology, you ...
Sri Lanka softens its agrochemical ban and organic farming shift as tea production dives
Sri Lanka on [October 19] backed down from ambitious plans to become the world's first completely organic farming nation, reversing ...
GMO breakthrough: Philippines becomes first country to approve nutrition-enhanced Golden Rice for commercial sale; Bangladesh next
The Philippines became the world's first country [July 23] to approve the commercial production of genetically modified "golden rice" that ...
Fact check: No, product codes do not identify genetically modified produce
"Want to know where your food and/or products come from?" asks a June 22, 2021 Instagram post. Identical posts, claiming ...
European Commission may greenlight GM crop imports rejected by EU Parliament
The EU Parliament has again spoken out against the approval of a number of genetically modified plant species. MEPs in ...
French Constitutional Council temporarily rescinds neonic pesticide ban, ‘much to the chagrin of environmentalists’
The Constitutional Council on [Dec 10] gave the green light to the law re-authorizing for three years the use of ...
Fact checking COVID-19 Facebook posts: Philippines, Sri Lanka aren’t killing coronavirus with aerial pesticide spraying
Purported advisories urging residents to stay indoors while national air force helicopters spray disinfectant over homes to kill off the ...
EU may block Austria’s proposed glyphosate weed killer ban
Austria's government appeared to cast doubt [December 2] on whether a total ban on the controversial herbicide glyphosate would be ...
Thailand reverses glyphosate weed killer ban following push back from nation’s farmers
Thailand reversed a decision [Nov. 27] to ban a controversial weedkiller and extended the permitted use of two other pesticides ...
Paris bans synthetic pesticides as French anti-chemical movement ‘gains momentum’
Paris and four other French cities on [September 12] banned the use of synthetic pesticides within their boundaries, as an ...
German farmer’s group calls for updated EU GMO crop rules to combat climate change
German farmers want access to new breeding technologies to protect against climate change. This would require a change in the ...
Crops produced with mutagenesis misleadingly labeled ‘non-GMO’ in Germany, biotech industry trade group says
According to research by [Germany's Free Democratic Party] and the genetic engineering-friendly association “Forum Grüne Reason” (FGV), many foods labeled ...
Investors back alternative protein startups as lab-grown, plant-based foods ‘flood’ the market
Cell-cultured meat, plant-based foie gras, algae milk and seaweed caviar are just some of the increasingly sophisticated alternative protein options ...
French regulator ANSES defends 2017 approval of Monsanto’s recently banned Roundup Pro 360 weedkiller
The National Agency for Food Safety, Environment and Labor (ANSES) “disputes any error of assessment” after the ban on the glyphosate-based ...
Burkina Faso aims to fight malaria with GMO mosquitoes, but activists warn of ‘species contamination’
Nonprofit group Project Target Malaria plans to conduct an experimental release of genetically engineered mosquitoes to stop the spread of ...
France’s neonicotinoid ban just took effect. How will it impact farmers?
A ban on five neonicotinoid pesticides [entered] into force in France on [August 31], placing the country at the forefront ...
Cost of pet cloning is dropping: Should you do it?
After photographer Monni Must's 28-year-old daughter Miya committed suicide...the grieving mother adopted Miya's spunky black Labrador, Billy Bean. Last year, ...
‘Major breakthrough’: Genetic modification of single gene could reduce crops’ water use by 25 percent
Researchers on Tuesday [March 6] unveiled a genetic modification that enables plants to use a quarter less water with scant ...
Mother of all citrus: Oranges, grapefruit, lemons and limes all descended from single ancestor
Oranges, grapefruit, lemons and limes are all hybrids, mixed and matched from 10 "wild" citrus species descended from a single ...
French anti-biotech group destroys research field trial—of non-GMO crops
[Editor's note: The following has been translated from French.] The agricultural cooperative group Auvergne Limagrain ... guaranteed the "absence of ...
New herbicide-resistant GMO crops renew worries about Monsanto’s seed market dominance
The rapid growth of Monsanto's new GMO seeds resistant to the controversial herbicide dicamba has revived worries about the company's ...
How glyphosate became the world’s most popular weedkiller
Since it was introduced in the United States in 1974 by pesticides and seed maker Monsanto as Roundup, the use ...
France rejects 5-year renewal for glyphosate herbicide; wants 3-year license instead
France will oppose a European Commission proposal to renew authorisation for controversial weedkiller glyphosate for five years instead of 10, ...
EU glyphosate herbicide ban would make weed control harder for French winegrowers
Bad weather this year has already prompted a steep drop in French wine output, contributing to a 50-year low in global ...
Syngenta CEO: Sustainability—not whether something is ‘organic’—should be food standard
[Syngenta chief executive Eryk Fyrwald] suggested neonicotinoid pesticides were not as dangerous as was being suggested. While France has confirmed ...