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Hawaiian Families Sue Dupont’s Pioneer Over GMO Crop Dust
Source: OA Families on the “Garden Isle” of Kauai are suing the Dupont-owned Pioneer seed company for failure to investigate the danger posed by open air testing of genetically modified crops. 150 Waimea residents filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Pioneer … Continue reading →
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Increasing predator-friendly land can help farmers reduce costs
Layne Cameron EurekAlert EAST LANSING, Mich. — Having natural habitat in farming areas that supports ladybugs could help increase their abundance in crops where they control pests and help farmers reduce their costs, says a Michigan State University study. Ladybugs … Continue reading →
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More hidden GMOs in British food
ANH-Europe UK supermarket betrays its consumers In a move for the worse, UK supermarket Morrisons has followed Asda’s lead and announced that it will now allow genetically modified (GM) feed within its poultry supply chain. As a result, poultry and … Continue reading →
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Enlist Dow Chemical
MorphCity Enlist is a new herbicide and GMO crop product from Dow Chemical and Monsanto.
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Herbicide Can Induce Morphological Changes in Vertebrate Animals: Tadpoles Change Shape
University of Pittsburgh Science Daily The world’s most popular weed killer, Roundup®, can cause amphibians to change shape, according to research recently published in Ecological Applications. Rick Relyea, University of Pittsburgh professor of biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich … Continue reading →
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Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2011
ISAAA Introduction This Executive Summary focuses on the 2011 biotech crop highlights, which are presented and discussed in detail in ISAAA Brief 43, Global Status of Commercialized Biotech/GM Crops: 2011. Biotech crops reached 160 million hectares, up 12 million hectares … Continue reading →
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‘Tis the season of fulminant fruitiness
BioEdge Newspapers have their “silly season” of shock-horror absurdities in the slow news summer months. How about bioethics journals? When two very loopy articles surface in peer-reviewed journals in as many weeks, it’s clearly February and March. First there was … Continue reading →
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World breakthrough on salt-tolerant wheat
Matthew Gilliham EurekAlert A team of Australian scientists has bred salt tolerance into a variety of durum wheat that shows improved grain yield by 25% on salty soils. Using ‘non-GM’ crop breeding techniques, scientists from CSIRO Plant Industry have introduced … Continue reading →
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Ghana’s law on GM foods finally gets Presidential Assent
Ghana Business News The Biosafety Act which has spent four years in Parliament has finally received Presidential Assent, thus becoming a complete law. The Law, from the Biosafety Act, 831, 2011 will enable Ghana to allow the application of biotechnology … Continue reading →
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Don’t Let the Future Belong to Monsanto: Choose Health and Freedom Over Food Slavery
David Noble Sovereign Independent The great GMO experiment that endangers the planet. Genetically modified crops have been intentionally altered through genetic engineering—the elimination, alteration, or introduction of new genetic elements. The global area given over to GM has doubled in … Continue reading →
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