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Ghana: Peasant farmers, others welcome govt’s promise not to introduce GMOs

17 January 2020

Minister says Ghanaian scientists can use traditional breeding to produce high yielding varieties and disease-resistant plants

Monsanto loses effort to head off St Louis trial that starts next week

17 January 2020

Trial involves claims by cancer patients that Monsanto’s herbicide caused their diseases and Monsanto hid the risks

Save the planet — by destroying farming?

17 January 2020

Pat Thomas responds to George Monbiot's vision of a farm-free, hi-tech food future

Ex-lobbyist used Trump agriculture job to boost industry allies, emails reveal

16 January 2020

Former agchem lobbyist helped Dow get GMO seed approval in China

India’s intelligence agencies investigate corporate backers of group distributing illegal seeds

15 January 2020

Lies, Disinfo and Spin Layer Cake

GMO cheerleaders use “disinformation layer cake” to promote corporate front group. Report: Jonathan Matthews

Will lab-grown food really save the planet?

14 January 2020

Bioreactor

Claire Robinson of GMWatch and others take a critical look at George Monbiot's vision of farm-free food

Risk assessment of herbicide-tolerant GM soybeans exposed as inadequate

14 January 2020

Soya beans

Assessed crops are sprayed with far lower levels of herbicides than are used in real-farm conditions, so risks are underestimated

Researchers assumed CRISPR-mediated disruption of genes was turning them off – but they were wrong

10 January 2020

4qyz CRISPR protein EColi

One-third of gene knockouts via CRISPR are not knockouts at all – and there are serious implications for gene-edited food plants. Report: Claire Robinson

No more GMO fish or fruit: Intrexon turns its focus to human health

6 January 2020

Non-healthcare businesses will be sold

New tool for rapidly analyzing CRISPR edits reveals frequent unintended edits

4 January 2020

DNA Degradation

"Many more unintended changes to DNA around the site of a CRISPR repair than previously thought"

January 18, 2016

Published by Farmers Relief at January 18, 2016