by Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham, PhD New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products, food additives and industrial chemicals. Everyday products, from soft drinks …
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Is the Hidden Viral Gene Safe? GMO Regulators Fail to Convince
by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Having unwittingly allowed a viral gene into the food chain, the response of regulators so far has been to release statements intended to allay public concerns. These …
Continue readingRegulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
by Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years? In the course …
Continue readingHow Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves
by Jonathan Latham, PhD The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by Sumant Kumar who has …
Continue readingRisk and Responsibility: Farming, Food, and Unconventional Gas Drilling
Michelle Bamberger and Robert E. Oswald (Photo credit: Marcellus Protest) Extraction of hydrocarbon gas from tight shale formations using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has been advertised as a path toward energy independence for the …
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