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Anti-GMO movement exposed for the destructive force they are

Greenpeace and other anti-GMO groups destructive activities have the effect of worsening hunger in the Third World, for no reason other than their own anti-science, anti-progress agendas. It's long...

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Thought-piece imagines a GMO-free world: but hunger is NOT a game.

A world without GMO crops? A sadder, hungrier, less-green place. Thankfully, only an imaginary world...so far. Continue reading → The post Thought-piece imagines a GMO-free world: but hunger is NOT a...

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President Obama signs on to Norman Borlaug’s biotech crusade to feed the hungry

Dr. Norman Borlaug is praised by President Obama, and in a letter to Norman’s granddaughter, POTUS sings the praises as well of agricultural biotechnology — GMOs — to keep on with Borlaug’s fight to...

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Survey agrees with FDA: No need to label food with biotech-engineered...

A new survey of 1,000 adults finds widespread agreement with the FDA’s position on (not) labeling food with GMO ingredients. It seems anti-biotech activists are just louder than everyone else but the...

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Biotech wheat: potential bounty to combat hunger, unfulfilled. Why?

Genetically-engineered (biotech, GMO) crops are increasingly being utilized by farmers worldwide, with major benefits to them, and to consumers as well. One crop not being so developed: GMO wheat. Why...

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If you’re afraid of GMO food (aka “frankenfood” as per the scare groups) just...

Can we turn down the heat while turning on the light on the controversial issue of labelling (or not) GMO food products? Maybe: just use your app! An idea endorsed by two recent USDA secretaries and...

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GMO papayas continue to be protected in Hawaii

Last December, Hawaii County passed a bill that banned biotech companies from the Big Island and prohibited all new genetically modified crops. Continue reading → The post GMO papayas continue to be...

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GMOs and the need to feed 9 billion

Dr. Robert Fraley, a top researcher at Monsanto, was recently quoted in a Nebraska Radio Network article, stating that he believed that those opposing GMOs are “extreme voices” and that most people are...

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GMO wheat field trial: scientific progress, short of success

While a field trial of genetically-modified wheat failed to reach its goal (of repelling destructive aphids), the progress made in incorporating relevant genetic traits into the wheat genome will yield...

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