The Central Information Commission (CIC) has issued show-cause notices to two central government environment ministry officials for not disclosing information on a GM mustard crop in violation of an earlier order from the CIC
Organic farming creates more profit and yields healthier produce. It’s time it played the role it deserves in feeding a rapidly growing world population
What is missing in the Nobel laureates’ letter supporting GMO golden rice is the recognition and scientific analysis of some tough facts, write Dr Angelika Hilbeck and Dr Hans Herren
How I see mainstream media news.
Believing ≠ Hoping. Look at what you believe you believe and what you know you know. You don’t. You wish and hope and trust. There’s a big difference, Sparky.
The lies your being handed are by design. “When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.” Thus spake Walter Lippmann.
Entomologists confirm resistance in rootworm populations to eCry3.1Ab (found in hybrids containing Duracade) in Iowa and Minnesota cornfields and lower levels of resistance to Cry34/35Ab1 (the Herculex RW trait), found in SmartStax, AcreMax XTreme and Agrisure 3122 hybrids
In a pro-GMO article, Al Jazeera fails to notice Kevin Folta’s links to Monsanto and presents him as an independent scientist
Brian Dowd-Uribe and Matthew A. Schnurr explain how a pro-GMO myth of superior yield and performance for Bt cotton was created – and how it imploded
“News is what a chap who doesn’t care much about anything wants to read. And it’s only news until he’s read it. After that it’s dead.” Evelyn Waugh
It’s strange that Nobel laureate Sir Richard John Roberts would attack Greenpeace for "blocking" the introduction of golden rice when it still is not ready, writes Colin Todhunter
The OTA's action has preempted Vermont and all other states from mandating disclosure of GMOs on packaging
