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Gene-Editing Unintentionally Adds Bovine DNA, Goat DNA, and Bacterial DNA, Mouse Researchers Find

September 23, 2019
An animal research facility

by Jonathan Latham, PhD The gene-editing of DNA inside living cells is considered by many to be the preeminent technological breakthrough of the new millennium. Researchers in medicine and agriculture have rapidly adopted it as …

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GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA

June 3, 2018
golden rice

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, …

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The GMO Dark Act Cannot Survive the Light

December 11, 2015
Mike Pompeo, Kansas

by Steven M. Druker An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont’s labeling bill is …

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(Un)Sustainable Farming, Commentaries, Environment

Ruthless Power and Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup

July 17, 2015
DDT, Time Magazine, 1947

By Evaggelos Vallianatos Morton Biskind, a physician from Westport, Connecticut, was a courageous man. At the peak of the cold war, in 1953, he complained of maladies afflicting both domestic animals and people for the …

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What Will the World Inherit From GE Salmon?

May 12, 2014
Salmon Farming

By Dr. Gerry Goeden It’s true; about 50 percent of the fish we eat are farmed. There is good reason for this as, one by one, the world’s commercial fisheries collapse through overfishing. According to …

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