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Major suspects for bee colony collapse disorder –namely insect viruses– are...
From GMO Pundit. GMOs have been blamed by anti-GM activists for bee colony collapse disorder. But there are other likely explanations for bee colony losses — including viruses that affect insects, and...
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The lethal elephant in the room: Real risks in our food
From GMO Pundit. Even as speculation about imaginary risks of GM foods continues, particularly among some organic sector enthusiasts, real food risks in the food chain remain unmanaged. Exposure of...
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Natural GMOs Part 83: Natural biology comes with no guarantee of safety
From GMO Pundit. Scanning electron micrograph of Escherichia coli, grown in culture and adhered to a cover slip: Image: National Institutes of Health (part of the United States Department of Health and...
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Oxfam should get serious about malnutrition: Africa needs roads and nitrates
From GMO Pundit. A road in KwaZulu-Natal A recent UK Times opinion piece by rational optimist Matt Ridley has really hit the nail of the head about food security, linking together many issues that are...
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Real progress on EU E. coli outbreak: An Egyptian fenugreek seed source to...
From GMO Pundit. European Food Safety agency EFSA has traced the food chains from the seed sprout associated E. coli food illness in the EU that has killed 48 people. The evidence is pointing to...
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Genetically modified plants as fish feed ingredients
From GMO Pundit. Fish by avlxyz via Flickr. There has been a long and tortuous discussion of Steve Savage’s post Way Too Much Angst about GMO crops covering many of the usual topics. But among the...
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Myths about eggplant (brinjal) as medicine are holding up Indian release of...
From GMO Pundit. Book available as pdf for free download (see link below) Previous posts at GMO Pundit have covered GM insect protected eggplant being developed as a new crop variety in India. This...
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Want to study relative risks of GE?
Last Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) posted a new grant – one that readers of Biofortified might be interested to...
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GE Survey: More believe safe than not, most undecided
In 2010, Thompson Reuters released a survey* (PDF) of public attitudes toward genetically engineered food in the US. They had several significant findings, some of which should be fairly obvious, but...
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GM debate: scientists and protesters aren’t polar opposites
Editor’s note: Republished with permission from The Birds, the Bees, and Feeding the World. By Rebecca Nesbit My excitement of today was to attend the anti-GM protest organised by Take the Flour Back,...
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Why novel dsRNA molecules in GM food are of little to no concern
Recently, concerns were raised about the potential risks of dietary double stranded RNA (dsRNA) and microRNA (miRNA) molecules silencing human genes, after research by Zhang et al. showed the presence...
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Biological Pest Control Basics
Lady beetle, by Scott Bauer. (Wikimedia Commons) Managing pests is an important part of cultivating plants whether you are tending a small garden in your yard or several fields of crops. Insect...
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Sex and death in the cornfields, Part II- Why rootworms?
Hi, I started this series to explain a little more background behind the news and opinion articles you may have seen about Bt-resistant corn rootworms, with scary titles like Voracious worm evolves to...
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A recent UK Times opinion piece by rational optimist Matt Ridley has really hit the nail of the head about food security, linking together many issues that are repeatedly tackled at this website. The...
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