Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson An investigation by Welsh trading standards officers into the claims of a farmer to have contravened Welsh GMO-Free status has concluded there was no evidence that he grew GMO maize.
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US Crop Yield Increases Owe Little to Biotechnology
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The latest advertising campaign from Monsanto claims that already its “advanced seeds… significantly increase crop yields…”, while since the mid-1990s the biotechnology industry has consistently proposed that higher yielding genetically …
Continue readingBee Learning Behaviour Affected by GMO Toxin
Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Concerns over bees, especially the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) have rarely been higher. Although there are few hard data there is a general consensus that both solitary …
Continue readingRoyal Society Science and Agriculture Study Criticised
There are significant concerns about the long term security and sufficiency of global food-crop production due to the potential impact of many factors including climate change, population growth, changing consumption patterns and competing demands for …
Continue readingIs a Major GMO Safety Test Ineffective?
Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Commercially, insect-resistant transgenic (GMO) plants are made by inserting a gene coding for one of a family of toxins produced by the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis. These Bt …
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