After a run of low quality GM cotton crops with unusually short fibres, Burkina Faso has ended its love affair with Monsanto's Bt cotton, writes Claire Robinson. In a further blow to the company, growers are demanding $280 million compensation for their losses.
… Affairs , which is published by Oxford University Press. The authors are Brian … the International Studies Department at the University of San Francisco and Matthew A. … Development Studies at Dalhousie University. The briefing traces the rapid …
The Council of Monte Maiz, a small town in Argentina surrounded by intensive GMO soya farms, has enacted a law that forbids the spraying and storage of pesticides and other agrochemicals after severe health impacts were detected.
… Dr Vazquez Medardo Avila, the doctor from the University of Cordoba who led the survey, … puso un freno a los agrotóxicos '. GMWatch: ' University’s attack on cancer researcher …
The 'Kevin Folta affair' has cast the hard light of day into the dubious PR tactics of the GMO industry, writes Claire Robinson - recruiting and paying scientists as secret shills to promulgate a pro-GM message without revealing their funding sources.
… the horticultural sciences department at the University of Florida. Monsanto executives … year he wrote , "The bottom line is that my university operates under the Sunshine Law. …
Is the light brown apple moth such a danger to crops both agricultural and financial that the US government will risk the health of its citizens to eradicate it? They spray, you pay, warns Claire Robinson
… Daniel Harder, director of the Arboretum at University of California, Santa Cruz, called … of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, … and health) and a faculty member of the University of California San Francisco …
A BBC documentary claimed 90% success for a controversial GM crop in Bangladesh, Bt brinjal, writes Claire Robinson. But as journalist Faisal Rahman discovered, there's no evidence to support the claim, the BBC relied on biased sources, and its journalists failed to investigate reports of widespread crop failure. Was it all an exercise in pro-GMO propaganda?
… briefly flashed up on the screen as "Cornell University" . Cornell and the Bangladesh … and the rest of South Asia. Cornell University is home to the controversial … that the Bt brinjal gene was given by Cornell University, "not an agritech company" . …
There's absolutely no evidence for BBC Panorama's claim of 90% success for Bt brinjal in Bangladesh, writes Claire Robinson. But that has not stopped the BBC Trust from dismissing all complaints against its monstrously dishonest report. Nor has it diminished the jubilation of GMO cheerleaders.
… for the 90% success claim was Cornell University. Yet when I challenged Sarah … programme's claims? Its report says, "Cornell University is a highly credible source and it …
Those who dare suggest that pesticides might be implicated in Brazil's microcephaly outbreak are being furiously attacked as irrational, nonsense-spouting 'conspiracy theorists', writes Claire Robinson. But the attackers have an uncanny ability to get their own facts in a twist. And among them are writers linked to industries with huge economic interests in the matter.
… Andrew Noymer, a social epidemiologist at the University of California, Irvine, replied : …
Greenpeace is being attacked for 'crimes against humanity' by 100 Nobel laureates for blocking GMO 'golden' rice, reports Claire Robinson. But the low-yielding crop is years away from going on sale, and there is no proof of any nutritional benefit to the malnourished children it's meant to benefit. Could the distinguished prize-winners have fallen for slick pro-GMO PR and spin?
… sciences and professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, revealed … Devon G. Peña, PhD, an anthropologist at the University of Washington Seattle and an expert …
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study
… Andres Carrasco, lead embryologist at the University of Buenos Aires Medical School and …
A new study shows that the market-leading Roundup herbicide kills soil microbiota at concentrations 50 times lower than used in agriculture, writes Claire Robinson. The findings raise serious new concerns about the environmental impacts of glyphosate herbicides.
… and researcher in molecular genetics at the University Paris-Sud, France. The team studied …
A recent scientific study found the same long-chain omega-3 oils that are engineered into a new GM Camelina oilseed variety make butterflies grow up with deformed wings, writes Claire Robinson. Attempts by the 'pro-science' non-scientist Mark Lynas to discredit the study are a mixture of ignorance, research failures, 'straw man' arguments and outright errors.
… professor of agronomy at Fort Valley State University, confirms that cabbage whites feed …
It looked like such a good idea: take the pressure off wild fish stocks by growing GM oilseeds that produce health-enhancing long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, writes Claire Robinson. But as a new study has established, those fish oils, novel in terrestrial ecosystems, cause wing deformities in cabbage white butterflies. Yet a third open field trial of these GM crops could soon be under way.
… most of whom are based at Ryerson University in Ontario, Canada, concluded that …
Cutting-edge molecular profiling analyses reveal that the popular weedkiller Roundup causes serious liver damage to rats at low doses permitted by regulators, reports Claire Robinson. The findings suggest that residues of glyphosate-based herbicides in food could be linked to rises in the incidence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, obesity, diabetes and 'metabolic syndrome'.
… study led by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini of the University of Caen, France. In this original …
The US government has given he go-ahead for a test plot of genetically modified (GM) eucalyptus trees in Alabama. For the first time, these trees will be allowed to flower and set seed, opening the door to potential widespread contamination of the American South.
… the Center for Microbial Pathogenesis at Duke University Medical Center, North Carolina, and …