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How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity

23rd May 2011

An emerging scientific consensus is that the environmental destructiveness of agriculture is largely unnecessary

Strangely like Fiction: Elanco-sponsored authors admit falsely claiming rbGH safety endorsement

22nd February 2010

Elanco's campaign to promote rbGH takes a wrong turn

Transgenic high-lysine corn LY038 withdrawn after EU raises safety questions

10th November 2009

The first withdrawal of a transgenic crop over food safety concerns

Welsh farmer's defiance of GMO 'ban' not so defiant after all

7th October 2009

Investigation finds no evidence that Jonathon Harrington grew GMO maize

US crop yield increases owe little to biotechnology

16th April 2009

UCS report: Failure to Yield

Bee Learning Behaviour Affected by Consumption of Bt Cry1Ab toxin

21st October 2008

Bt transgenics and CCD

Royal Society Science and Agriculture Study Criticised

15th October 2008

Aid, social justice and environmental groups criticise Royal Society study proposal

Testing Time for Substantial Equivalence

17th June 2008

Daphnia magna survival and fitness reduced when fed on MON810 Bt maize

Long-term persistence of GM oilseed rape in the seedbank

4th June 2008

Ten year persistence of transgenic oilseed rape volunteers from Swedish experiment

US: Private Food Safety Labs Hide Negative Tests

1st June 2008

Congressional investigation underway

Pew Commission Report: Industrial animal farming poses "unacceptable" risks for public health and the environment

4th May 2008

Important study condemns agro-industrial complex.

Civil Society Statement on Nanotechnology: Guiding Principles for Regulation

14th March 2008

Global coalition calls for nano precaution

Farm Bill amendment calls for NAS to study safety and impacts of cloned meat and animals

18th December 2007

Amendment passes Senate hurdle

The Excommunication of a Heretic

26th November 2007

Nature Biotechnology and the 'scientific' review of the Ermakova soy study

Effects of Bt pollen in aquatic ecosystems

2nd November 2007

Ecological impacts of genetically engineered corn

Corn fakes

2nd November 2007

'Flagrant fraud' or the science of GMO shopping?

Goodbye Dolly....Hello Synthia

8th June 2007

J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form

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The Great DNA Data Deficit: Are Genes for Disease a Mirage?

The Great DNA Data Deficit: Are Genes for Disease a Mirage?

8th December 2010

Genetic susceptibility is not a major factor determining the health of human populations. This is the implication of more than 700 studies looking for specific genetic susceptibilities to every major disease including: diabetes (1 and 2), stroke, cancers, heart disease, obesity, schizophrenia, depression, dementia, and many others. Given the number of headlines generated by the discovery of 'genes for' various diseases, one might think that a collective refutation, and probably the most important medical discovery of the last twenty five years, would warrant some media attention.

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Exposed: conflicts of interest at EFSA’s panel on food additives

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Big Ag won’t feed the world or make jobs

Curbing biofuels should halt price rises

15 years of GM Soybeans in Argentina

USDA factsheet: Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance

GM regulators chose ignorance over science

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Herbicide Use Fails to Decline with GE Crops

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Bt Gene in GM Crops Harms Growth

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The Global Food System is Failing

Court Says No GM Sugar Beets Without Final EIS

Unlabelled clone meat allowed on shop shelves as food safety proposals are ripped up

Fracking with our food

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Cut red meat intake and don't eat ham, say cancer researchers

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Dubious assumptions prime population bomb

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