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Remembering Árpád Janos Pusztai, scientist who risked career to question safety of GMOs
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Árpád Janos Pusztai, PhD, one of the first scientists to raise concerns about the safety of genetically modified foods, died Dec 17, 2021, at the age of 91. By Howard Vlieger
Evolutionary plant breeding allows farming to respond to complexity of climate change
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Researchers show why a participatory approach for organic and agroecological systems can succeed where GMOs and intensive ag will fail. Report: Claire Robinson
Coming to your dinner plate soon? Potentially unsafe GM tomatoes
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Sanatech's sedative tomato is on the market already; Cathie Martin's purple tomato may follow
Glyphosate damages blood-testis barrier and causes poor quality sperm
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US acceptable daily intake level found unsafe. Report: Claire Robinson
Revelations on Lancet editor who published letter slamming COVID lab leak theory as "conspiracy"
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Dr Richard Horton admitted he knew that Dr Peter Daszak had links to the Wuhan laboratory at the centre of the spillover theory
European Commission puts big business before health and environment
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Agbiotech corporations are gaining control over our food through lobby power and patent cartels – Commission is enabling the takeover
Cell line tests on pesticides not ready to replace animal testing
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In vitro tests on three GMO-associated pesticides show alarming toxicity of 2,4-D but miss toxic effects of glyphosate that show up in other types of study
Facts are facts, opinions not so much
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Pete Shanks reviews Life As We Made It, by Beth Shapiro
Investigative journalist Paul Thacker wins prestigious award for “expertly researched” articles
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Thacker is known for fearlessly exposing corporate front groups, dodgy experts, veiled vested interests and bad journalism. Report: Jonathan Matthews
Monsanto will plead guilty to illegal use of pesticide in Hawaii and will pay additional $12m
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Company also agrees to plead guilty to felony offences related to banned pesticide alleged in $10 million deferred prosecution agreement filed in 2019
Round Table on Responsible Soy has failed to stop deforestation – WWF Netherlands
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GMWatch and other NGOs warned back in 2009 that the industry-dominated forum was no better than a greenwashing exercise. Report: Claire Robinson
USDA is facing a legal challenge over its new GMO labelling standards
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Advocates for clear labelling of genetically modified ingredients say the agency’s required language is confusing to consumers
Agribusiness groups lobbying to water down the EU’s sustainable farming targets
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Agrochemical and pesticide giants like Bayer and BASF are pushing for weaker action on harmful chemicals and climate goals
Action alert from Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered Trees
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India: Historic win for farmer seed rights
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PepsiCo’s intellectual property rights on potato variety revoked
Groups tell UN food agency to ditch "toxic alliance" with pesticide association
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"This partnership with CropLife is in direct conflict with FAO's mandate as a UN institution to fulfil human rights to health, adequate food, clean water and environment, and safe working conditions"
Researchers slam EU safety review of glyphosate
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According to an independent review by cancer researchers, the EU preliminary decision that glyphosate is safe is based on faulty studies
Glyphosate: EU assessment report excludes most of the scientific literature from its analysis
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92% of toxicity studies judged irrelevant or unreliable by preliminary European report. By Claire Robinson
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GMO? Soon you won't know, if Australia's food regulator gets its way
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Please take action to protect the global food supply
Only two out of 11 industry glyphosate studies given to EU regulators deemed reliable
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Review of industry safety studies shows vast majority do not meet international standards for scientific validity
Stop genetic engineering deregulation, German industry association tells Commission
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GMO-free success story "would be massively threatened if plants produced with new genetic engineering were to come onto the market untested and unlabelled"
Partners in crime: Owen Paterson and Matt Ridley. Or why you can’t keep a bad man down
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The forces that shaped Paterson’s rise to prominence are as active and influential as ever, writes Jonathan Matthews