GMOs
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Make yourself useful: Five food actions in five minutes
We've collected some of the most important things you can do to speak up for a greener food system right now.
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New Center for PostNatural History is a museum of human influence on nature
It makes sense that there would be a museum to chronicle just how much we’ve messed with plants, animals, the climate, and in general the world around us. The Center for PostNatural History, opening this week in Pittsburgh, is that museum.
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GMO-labeling game plan: California or bust!
GMO labeling advocates have tried a variety of tactics this year; get the rundown on what hasn't worked so far and what just might.
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Farmers advance in their suit against Monsanto
In one corner you have the biotech seed giant, in the other you have 83 non-GMO seed producers, farmers, and agricultural organizations who want Monsanto to stop suing and threatening them.
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Bill Gates wants to solve hunger caused by climate change with GMOs
Gates has done his research on the problems climate change is already causing for the global food supply. But he thinks more GMOs, not holistic, soil-based climate change mitigation, is the answer.
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Monsanto’s new seeds could be a tech dead end
In response to Roundup-resistant "superweeds," Monsanto is rolling out a generation of seeds that will also withstand an old, toxic pesticide called 2,4-D, one of the main ingredients in Agent Orange.
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‘Just Label It’: New video from the Food, Inc. guy
Food, Inc. filmmaker Robert Kenner has a new project about labeling of GMO foods. This one's a short video, not a feature film, so it'll only take three minutes of your life to check it out.
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The man whose algae could take over the world
If life is really a disaster movie in which humanity is wiped off the face of the earth, J. Craig Venter will probably be the hubristic genius who gets us there. The man sequenced the human genome in like three years, and now he's focused on the genetic possibilities of algae. The goal is to program those little cells to produce biofuels.
Here's his pitch, as told to Scientific American:Everybody is looking for a naturally occurring alga that is going to be a miracle cell to save the world, and after a century of looking, people still haven’t found it. We hope we’re different. The [genetic] tools give us a new approach to being able to rewrite the genetic code and get cells to do what we want them to do.
Eek! Mutant algae!
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The next generation of GMOs could be especially dangerous
The next wave of genetic engineering uses microRNA to control pests on industrial farms. But new research out of China shows it could have adverse health effects for human digestion.