After years of failing to make its modified products do its bidding, the biotech industry is changing tack – now its modifying the protestors. Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa
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The Big Gene Gathering took place Herefordshire during 1997 and the following December the UK's anti-GMO movement was born. DR DAVID KING has been an activist in the movement since the beginning. Here, he explores the reasons for the campaign's success - and assesses the threats ahead
… to expose the risks and false promises of the biotechnology industry. Processed foods In … industry and government reports hailed biotechnology and the industries based upon it … placing an almost complete roadblock on the biotechnology industry’s flagship products. …
CRISPR and new forms of gene manipulation must not be allowed anywhere near our food systems or into the wider environment.
… human cells, to the point that George Church, biotechnology pioneer from Harvard University, … technologies including geoengineering and biotechnology. CRISPR and all forms of …
Almost since the advent of genetic engineering the food industry, the research establishment and parts of the media have been saying that the public is becoming more accepting of the technology. However, with no credible independent evidence to support this view it remains little more than wishful thinking and as this new survey, conducted by Beyond GM shows, most diners want to see more transparency about what's actually in our food
… is growing steadily as newer and more complex biotechnology looks for a marketplace in the … Europeans understand the difference between biotechnology and genetic engineering of food, … None of it is labelled. Importantly, new biotechnology methods and biotech ingredients, …
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates
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New Mexico’s chilli farmers are under threat. The film 'Red, green of GE?' hears from those concerned about the potentially devastating effects GMO crops would have on the New Mexico chilli.
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Green soap-maker Ecover is the first company to openly admit that that it's using ingredients derived from 'synthetically modified organisms' - the next wave of GMOs - writes Jim Thomas. So why are they risking their ‘natural' brand for this experimental biotechnology?
… their ‘natural' brand for this experimental biotechnology? Disappointment, surprise, …
A Complaint has been filed today with the European Commission to prevent import of the 'super-GM' SmartStax maize developed by Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences.
… research and public debate on the impacts of biotechnology. Based in Munich, Germany, it …
The claims made for GM agriculture are a transparent fraud. The real purpose of GM foods is to give giant corporations legally-enforceable monopoly powers over the entire global food chain.
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Two decades ago the world's first GM foods went on sale, writes Pat Thomas. The consumer flirtation with GMOs soon died away, yet the biotech industry has grown into a global behemoth, driving agricultural intensification and sending agro-chemical sales through the roof. It's time for us to take a stand once again and insist: there are better, healthier ways of growing food.
… There are new challenges too in that biotechnology companies are lobbying to have …