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Fundamentals in Food and Agriculture

Recent BSR Commentaries

Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security

Valuing Folk Crop Varieties for Agroecology and Food Security

26th October 2009

Salinization in the Sunderbans allows in situ conservation to prove its value

European Community Law and Nanotechnology: A Risky Business?

European Community Law and Nanotechnology: A Risky Business?

26th June 2009

The EU plans to regulate nanotechnologies, in food and elsewhere, using pre-existing legislation. However, there are excellent reasons to believe that this minimalist approach will not adequately protect consumers and the environment.

Commentary Archive

The Real Burning Question: Are Liquid Fuels the best use of Non-Woody Biomass?

28th March 2009

Roundup Ready 2 Yield as much as conventional soybeans?

19th November 2008

USDA Top Officials Versus USDA Data

25th June 2008

India's Colourless Revolution: Replacement of Traditional Oils by Soy and Palm Oils

12th May 2008

How the Science Media Failed the IAASTD

7th April 2008

Let the World Learn From Our Experience with GMOs

25th March 2008

What is Nature Biotechnology good for?

4th December 2007

Rethinking the Risks of Viral Transgenes in plants

30th November 2007

Does the Knowledge-based Bio-economy add up?

10th June 2007

GMO Safety and LL601 Rice

14th April 2007

Conflicts of interest: in agriculture too?

15th March 2007

The Agenda Gap in Science

28th February 2007

Cisgenic Plants: Just Schouten from the Hip?

23rd February 2007

Transgene Escape! - But No One Has Called Out the Guards

4th February 2007

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The No-Nonsense Guide to Science

Summarises the increasingly cogent intellectual critiques of scientific infallibility, objectivity and disinterestedness

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The Bioscience Resource Project News Service

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

22nd February 2010

A paper presented at the Montreal 2009 joint dairy science meeting that was funded and subsequently widely distributed by Elanco claims that the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Association of Pediatrics endorse the safety of rbGH. It also claims the endorsement of 17 other unspecified leading public health organisations in the United States. A coalition of consumer groups has pointed out that many of these claims are not accurate, however, and that the AMA, the ACS and the AAP have no policies on rbGH. The Bioscience Resource Project has also established that of the remaining 17 organisations, some have only tenuous connections to public health.

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News Exclusives

International Conference on the Implications of genetically modified crop cultivation at large spatial scales GMLS II

9th January 2010

25-26. March 2010, Bremen (Germany)

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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