New England Journal of Medicine Interview with Dr. Philip Landrigan on health concerns associated with genetically modified crops and the...
Month: August 2015
Non-GM successes: Disease resistance
Despite the usual hyperbole about the promise of GM disease resistant crops, hardly any have been commercialized anywhere in the...
Monsanto is hot for corn
Wheat and canola are still kings of the Canadian Prairies, but corn is getting a lift from a couple of...
Monsanto’s super-broccoli shouldn’t scare you…
… but its plans for global vegetable domination might Broccoli, the original superfood, is getting an upgrade. On top of the...
EU watchdog says pesticides harmful to bees, industry disagrees
Widely-used pesticides made by Bayer CropScience and Syngenta pose a risk to bees, the European Union’s food safety watchdog said...
Growers returning to unaltered crops
High sale prices of non-GMO yields have many buying conventional seeds ST. LOUIS — Five years ago, Dan Beyers took...
The New Genetics and Natural versus ArtificialGenetic Modification
entropy ISSN 1099-4300 www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy Review The New Genetics and Natural versus ArtificialGenetic Modification Abstract: The original rationale and impetus for artificial...
Food Goes ‘GMO Free’ With Same Ingredients
As consumer concern grows over genetically modified products, more produce purveyors are paying to use such labels Last year, Evolution...
GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are not high on most physicians’ worry lists. If we think at all about biotechnology, most...
A case study from the CHAMACOS cohort. 2003!
Cumulative organophosphate pesticide exposure and risk assessment among pregnant women living in an agricultural community: a case study from the...