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How Agriculture Can Provide Food Security Without Destroying Biodiversity

SRI-grown Rice in China According to conventional wisdom, the Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte (pop. 2.5 million) has achieved something impossible. So, too, has the island of Cuba. They are feeding...

Jun 6, 2013

Strangely like Fiction: Sponsored Academics Admit Falsely Claiming Dairy Hormone Safety Endorsements

The fight over rbGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) continues, even under new ownership. After acquiring rbGH from Monsanto, Elanco (part of Eli Lilly) has stepped up efforts to convince milk pr...

Jun 17, 2013

Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops

Cauliflower Mosaic Virus How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years...

Jun 6, 2013

GMO Golden Rice Offers No Nutritional Benefits Says FDA

The biotech industry and its supporters have promoted GMO Golden Rice for decades as an urgently needed solution to vitamin A deficiency

Jun 6, 2018

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

Just before his appointment as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), Francis Collins, the most prominent medical geneticist of our time, had his own genome scanned for disease suscepti...

Jun 6, 2013

How "Extreme Levels" of Roundup in Food Became the Industry Normal

Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Quality can be defined as sufficiency of appropriate minerals, vitamins and fats, etc. but it also includes the absence of toxins, whether...

Mar 25, 2014