The GMO Debate: Directed by Kate Wilson. A documentary following a political campaign in Sonoma County ,CA to ban the growing of genetically modified food in their county.Features author Jeffery Smith (The Seeds if Deception) and farmer Percy Schmeiser,
My first question is: you mentioned that GMO provide advantages to producers but not to consumers. What I have seen in the last few years with the adoption of GMO is that world prices of GMO products, in this case of soybeans, have gone down, which seems to me like a clear advantage...
“The main concerns over GMOs wouldn’t really apply in this case,” he explains. “If you combine DNA from different animals or insert new genetic information, you don’t know what the result will be. But in this case, it doesn’t involve any insertion of DNA.” The supposed lack...
First, the size of emerging non-GMO market segments created by consumer demand or by regulation is examined. Secondly, labeling alternatives are tested and thirdly, alternative marketing arrangements for supplying non-GM crops are examined... L Unnevehr,L Hill,C Cunningham - 《Genetically Modified...
Debate arises over whether U.S. will abandon GMO issue with EU. (World View).(genetically modified organism issue with the European Union, U.S. may ease off in convincing the EU on easing restrictions on genetically modified organisms, Canada is also at risk of losing membership in the ...
I receive a few other frequent questions on GMOs that don’t relate to safety, so answering three of the most frequent here: What About Superweeds? Pesticide resistance is a real thing. It’s also an old thing. The first notion that it exists dates back to 1914, when A.L. Melander ...
GMO stands for Genetically Modified Organism. Other names for the process include Genetic Engineering (GE) or Genetic Modification (GM), which are one and the same. How is a GMO Different from Hybridization / Cross-Breeding? Genetic modification is the p
‘RAP’ to refer to the task of selecting a framing of the problems and questions to which expert risk assessors are expected to respond. It is not clear why EFSA and its European Commissionrisk managersfailed to adopt that already-agreed global terminology, when the EU as overall policy ...
Delan Perry's papaya farm on the Big Island of Hawaii may be a bit off the beaten path. But it's smack in the middle of a worldwide debate about one of life's essentials: the very food we eat. His papayas, like almost all those now grown on the Big Island, are GMOs -- genetic...
I tried consulting my two “non GMO shopping list” iphone apps, but none of the mayo brands on the shelf were mentioned (either as a pro or a con). So I ended up playing it extra safe and buying the safflower-based mayo with the Non-GMO label. ...