Ayn Rand Institute
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‘Gene Revolution’: How genetic engineering is making food and medicine cheaper, better and more plentiful
Mankind has been improving plants and animals for millennia. Simply by selecting and breeding those they liked best, our ancestors ...
Harmful GMO insulin meme illustrates how ‘deadly’ anti-GMO movement can be
What happens when a tabloid-respect-for-the-truth meets a life-saving breakthrough in medical technology? You’d get something like this: Chances are you ...
Anti-GMO activists embrace Russia’s Putin
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev recently told a group of leaders from rural settlements that when it comes to food ...
Anti-biotech activists threaten McDonald’s to spurn GM potatoes
J.R. Simplot, a company that produces over 3 billion pounds of potatoes each year, hopes to soon add a genetically engineered variety ...
God Move Over (GMO)
Scanning the web for slogans and catch-phrases that slur biotech crops rouses the usual suspects: “frankenfoods,” “our kids are not ...
Do GMOs have to end world hunger in order to be desirable crops?
GMOs should not be held to impossible standards or justified with lofty world-saving promises—their proven, real-world value is enough to ...
Genetically modified microbes are factories, creating vaccines, medicines and foods
By inserting genetic instructions into bacteria or yeast—thereby modifying their genetic code—scientists have used microbes to create all sorts of ...
What does it mean to be genetically modified?
Driving through corn and soybean fields in Wisconsin, Amanda Maxham, Ph.D, a writer and Research Associate with the Ayn Rand ...
A tale of two tomatoes: An exploration into the hostility towards GE foods
In her quest to learn about the fears and opposition that genetically engineered foods face, Amanda Maxham, Ph.D, a writer ...
European Union tramples rights of GM growers
Last year, across the globe, 17 million farmers sowed billions of genetically engineered seeds in more than 420 million acres of ...
Insurers should be free to discriminate based on genetics
The following is an excerpt. A recent NPR story described efforts to extend the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) to long-term care ...
