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USDA Researchers Call For Safety Testing on RNAi GMOs and Pesticides

Standard toxicity testing is inadequate to assess the safety of a new technology with potential for creating pesticides and genetically modifying crops, according to a Forum article published in the August issue of BioScience. The authors of the article, Jonathan G. Lundgren and Jian J. Duan of the USDA...

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No More GMO Open Field Trials in France

France’s last-remaining experimental open field trial of GMOs has been stopped. The National Institute of Agronomic Research (INRA) ended the trial...

Demons and Dispatches: How US Diplomacy Represents the Interests of Monsanto

A few years ago WikiLeaks published 251,287 American Embassy dispatches. The action named “Cablegate” was more a spectacle from the German...

Controversial Products: Monsanto’s SmartStax to Aspartame

Although there are widespread objections in the European Union against genetically modified food, Monsanto wants to introduce a new, highly controversial...

The Sinister Monsanto Group: ‘Agent Orange’ to Genetically Modified Corn

The Americans do not only spy on governments, authorities and private individuals across the world with the help of their secret services;  they also...

US Military Tracks GMO Campaigners and Independent Scientists (English Exclusive)

The largest German daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung has today published a shocking article that reveals how Monsanto,  the US Military and the US...

India Rejects Monsanto Plant Patent

On 5th July, Hon Justice Prabha Sridevi, Chair of the Intellectual Property Appellate Board of India, and Hon Shri DPS Parmar, technical member, dismissed...

US Embassy Must Be Open And Transparent On GMO Debate In Ghana

Following our call for a ban on the importation, cultivation, consumption, and sale of genetically modified foods and crops in Ghana, until the people...

South Africans Object to Field Trial of ‘Stacked’ GM Maize

The African Centre for Biosafety (ACB) has submitted an objection to an application by Dow Agro-sciences to conduct a field trial of a “stacked”...

University of Canterbury Researchers: GM is a Failing Biotechnology

University of Canterbury researchers have found that the biotechnologies used in north American staple crop production are lowering yields and increasing...