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Showing posts with label maize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label maize. Show all posts

Breeding Bt crops breeds healthy pests

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May 2022 In the first decade of 'Bt' insecticidal GM maize growing, it was noted that aphids unexpectedly thrived on them. Aphids a...

GM staples in Africa

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February 2022 The vast continent of Africa has long been a key target for GM agriculture [1,2]. So far, three GM crop types (cotton, soya a...

Nasty GM surprises

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March 2020 Farmers' knowledge about the cycles of nature, their land, their crops and livestock, their soil, and all the life that...

RNAi doesn't just disappear

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October 2019 After ten years of development, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly approved the first 'SmartStax Pro...

America's GM plans

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August 2019 Since the Big Bang of synthetic pesticides during World War II, US regulators from both major political parties have adopt...

Off-loading GM maize in South Africa

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June 2019 A recent application for permission to sell and cultivate three types of GM maize in South Africa illustrates the biotech ind...

Enslaving Africans again

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June 2019 In 2005, the Head of the Ethiopian Environment Protection Authority suggested that GM crops would, once more, enslave the peo...

Heavily politically-orientated food

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May 2019 Earlier this year, a story appeared in Le Monde newspaper entitled "GMO poisons? The real end of the Séralini affair". ...

Somewhat different crops for Africa

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May 2019 The WEMA project to provide 'Water Efficient Maize for Africa' is a public-private partnership co-ordinated by the Af...

Glyphosate and parkinsons disease again

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May 2019 In 2012, a rat feeding study on the toxic effects of Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant GM maize sprayed with the herbici...

Super-maize with super problems

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April 2019 In 2018, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) GMO panel gave a positive opinion on a new five-event stacked GM maize for...

GM with a TwYST

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April 2019 In 2012, a long-term rat feeding study was published investigating the toxicity of Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant GM...

Our CRISPR food future

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March 2019 DuPont Pioneer scientists published a paper in 2017 which gives an insight into where the biotech crop market is planning to ...

Triple stacked GM maize causes leaky stomachs

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September 2018 Because partially digested food can be held in the stomach for some hours, the stomach is the part of our body most exposed ...

Meta analysis shows how different GM really is

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August 2018 Domestic breeding has been a 'powerful evolutionary force' on our food plants, to which the introduction of GM plant...

Non-GM maize gems

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August 2018 US maize farmers have an arsenal of chemical weapons to fight their enemy No.1. But it isn't winning them the war. ...

A soya model NOT to follow

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April 2018 Argentina's 'modelo sojero', once promoted as a shining economic example for others to follow, seems instead to h...

'Bt' and kidney disease

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April 2018 The EU probably has the most detailed, carefully drafted and thought-out GM regulations in the world. All Member States can ...

GM in Mexican maize revisited

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February 2018 One of the early embarrassments for the biotech industry was the publication of a study in 2001 which reported GM contamin...

Dicamba and dust

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October 2017 The major herbicidal chemicals used by US farmers haven't really changed very much over the decades. Various forms of ...