By Caius Rommens Genetic engineering isn’t everyone’s childhood dream. Even I didn’t care for it when I started studying biology at the University of Amsterdam, but my professor explained it was an acquired taste and …
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GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA
by Allison Wilson, PhD and Jonathan Latham, PhD The biotech industry and its supporters have promoted GMO Golden Rice for decades as an urgently needed solution to vitamin A deficiency. But, in a surprising twist, …
Continue readingGates Foundation Grants Additional $6.4 million to Cornell’s Controversial Alliance for Science
In a presentation yesterday at Cornell, Alliance for Science Director, Sarah Evanega, revealed that her organisation had received “a renewed contribution” of $6.4 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Originally endowed with $5.6 …
Continue readingDicamba Herbicide Drift: A Disaster in 2017, Will Be Much Worse in 2018
by Steve Smith, Chairman of Save Our Crops Coalition. On October 13th, an EPA press release announced the agency’s decision to allow the use of dicamba herbicides during the 2018 growing season for post-emergent weed …
Continue readingThe UK’s Royal Society: a Case Study in How the Health Risks of GMOs Have Been Systematically Misrepresented
by Steven Druker For more than twenty years, many eminent scientists and scientific institutions have routinely claimed that genetically modified foods are safe. And because of the perceived authority of their pronouncements, most government officials …
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