Viewpoint: Seed patent controversy — ‘Does intellectual property in agriculture really drive up costs for farmers and restrict access?’ Here are the numbers

Viewpoint: Seed patent controversy — ‘Does intellectual property in agriculture really drive up costs for farmers and restrict access?’ Here are the numbers

Peter Button | 
Among the many misconceptions about modern agriculture, perhaps one of the most pervasive surrounds the role of intellectual property (IP) ...
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CRISPR gene editing applications are expanding dramatically in agriculture. Here are the latest advances

Clement Dionglay | 
In the past decade, after the release of CRISPR-Cas9 as a genome-editing tool, it has revolutionized biological research. CRISPR and ...
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GLP podcast: Oops — heirloom seed company markets GM tomato; Anti-biotech movement in retreat; Bill Gates does more harm than good?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
An heirloom seed company that prides itself on selling GMO-free products mistakenly put a genetically engineered tomato on the cover ...
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Bangladesh greenlights gene editing to ‘meet the needs of farmers and consumers’

The Agriculture & Food Systems Institute (AFSI), under the auspices of the South Asia Biosafety Program (SABP) and in collaboration ...
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Costa Rica revises its biotechnology regulations, dropping restrictions on gene editing and other New Breeding Techniques

USDA | 
Industry experts say a November 11, 2023, update to the Costa Rican biotechnology regulatory framework facilitates utilization of innovative biotechnologies ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Regulatory vigilantes’ — How former government scientists who are now high-paid ‘expert witnesses’ for predatory law firms use mass tort litigation to sidestep science

David Zaruk | 
Regulatory risk management process allowed policymakers to govern over the last 60 years of technological and industrial development ...
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GLP podcast: AAP refuses to print rebuttal to anti-GMO study; Billion-dollar anti-pesticide ‘money grab’; Ultra-processed food won’t make you obese?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) published a spurious attack on GM crops and pesticides, then reneged on its commitment ...
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False dawn or new dawn for genetically engineered crops in the European Union?

Steven Cerier | 
It's going to be a long and difficult journey before the fate of the European crop biotechnology reform bill passed ...
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How gene editing could rescue virus-devastated global papaya crop

Luiza Favarato | 
Plant viruses are formidable adversaries when it comes to producing high yielding crops, causing significant harm to global agriculture, and ...
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When a farmer and a dietitian are the same person: Telling stories to counter misinformation about biotechnology

Jennie Schmidt | 
Jennie Schmidt, Third-Generation Maryland Farmer, Registered Dietitian, Member of the Global Farmer Network | March 1, 2024 Highlights: Combining a ...
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s manufactured ‘dangerous levels of chlormequat in oat cereals’ study underscores the ‘risk perception gap’

Andrea Love | 
The number of messages I received from people, mostly parents, who said they had been terrified to feed their children ...
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Viewpoint: Journal Pediatrics reneges on its commitment to print response to botched article claiming GMOs are harmful to children. Here’s what they censored

Kevin Folta | 
A lot has been said about the journal Pediatrics December 2023 Clinical Report on "Using GMOs on Children". The poor scholarship ...
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GLP podcast: Bad research sows distrust in science; Pesticides in food aren’t dangerous—unless you eat 340 apples daily

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Bad research in peer-reviewed journals is undermining the public's trust in science. What can experts do to stop the flow ...
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Viewpoint: Are organizations claimed as “partners” with tort industry-funded Heartland Study aware of the scam? Here’s an ‘open letter’ challenge

Robert Wager et al. | 
Multiple science communicators and scientists have composed a letter to various universities and government organizations that have been linked to ...
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Viewpoint: Money grab — How the Environmental Working Group works hand-in-hand with tort lawyers to generate billion-dollar junk suits

Hank Campbell | 
On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from ...
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Viewpoint: Exploiting chemophobia—Environmental Working Groups’s manufactured study claiming oat cereal contains dangerous pesticides designed to manipulate the media

Andrea Love | 
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and media outlets are trying to scare people away from demonstrably safe and nutritious conventional food products ...
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Viewpoint: UK’s organic farming lobby needs to drop its ideological rejection of gene editing if it hopes to remain viable

David Hill | 
In July last year, the European Commission published its proposals for regulating plants developed using new genomic techniques (NGTs) such ...
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GLP podcast: Technology keeps debunking ‘The Population Bomb;’ Internet access can harm mental health; Is urban farming sustainable? Probably not

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Technological innovations continue to debunk predictions that global population growth will lead to mass starvation. Some mental health experts are ...
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With climate change disruptions of farming and food escalating, scientists look to resilient ancient plant varieties as a possible safety net

Lourdes Medrano | 
In late September, an international team of researchers fanned out across a remote New Mexico mountain range, in search of ...
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Is tilapia a human-made freak that we should avoid — or an evolutionary rockstar?

Ricki Lewis | 
Posts were appearing on my Facebook feed warning against the dangers of eating tilapia. So I decided to do a ...
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What’s driving the ‘multi-billion dollar fear-and-smear campaign against genetically-engineered crops’ — and the link between activists and Russia?

Henry Miller, Rob Wager | 
Because most of society is between two and six generations removed from farming, to many people that subject is largely ...
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Viewpoint: What is sustainability? What are pesticides? The way media and politicians define ideologically diffuse words shape policy – often for the worse

David Zaruk | 
Reality is perceived by the definitions we give; the black and white lines we draw upon a grey canvas. So ...
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Viewpoint: Righteous Risks — Here’s how (and why) environmental advocacy groups misrepresent the risks from innovations but cynically ignore genuine dangers

David Zaruk | 
Synthetic pesticides are under constant regulatory pressure, but not organic pesticides. “Green” renewables and EVs have very little regulatory scrutiny ...
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England’s gene-editing rules could be far more restrictive than scientists hope

Daniel Pearsall, Karen Holt | 
In proposals set out in a recent public consultation document, the Food Standards Agency has confirmed its plans for implementing ...
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Crop gene editing greenlighted by European Parliament. Fight over labeling looms as measure moves to the EU Council

European Parliament | 
For a more sustainable and resilient food system, MEPs support a simpler process for NGT plants equivalent to conventional plants, ...
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