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Viewpoint: Europe can’t produce enough food if it cuts use of farm chemicals but opposes gene editing

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Europe is asking its farmers to use fewer pesticides and less fertilizer, while still producing the same amount of food ...

Canadian glyphosate-cancer lawsuits against Bayer may proceed regardless of US settlement

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.... [T]he agreements, between Bayer and numerous law firms in America, don’t apply to potential class action lawsuits in Canada, ...

As CRISPR crops become more common, don’t throw GMOs under the bus, scientists warn

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Farmers and scientists may be tempted to throw transgenic crops in the trash. The technology, which has provided benefits to ...

With consumers still fearful of synthetic chemicals, biotech firms spend billions on biopesticide development

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Major players like Bayer and start-up companies are spending billions to identify fungi, bacteria and organic compounds in plants that ...

EU neonic insecticide ban cut UK canola production from 1.8 million acres to 1.3 million annually

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In 2012, U.K. farmers seeded about 1.8 million acres of oilseed rape [canola]. But over the last eight years, acreage ...
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Glyphosate harms soil microbes? USDA research challenges common criticism of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide

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There are dozens of conspiracy theories about glyphosate. One of those theories goes something like this: glyphosate, the active ingredient ...

General Mills urges suppliers to cut glyphosate use, citing growing consumer pesticide fears

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General Mills, like all companies, needs happy and satisfied customers. That’s why it’s asking suppliers, farmers who produce oats, wheat, ...
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Consumer-focused CRISPR-edited crops may be key to building public trust in biotech

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Gene editing has the potential to change agriculture, but only if consumers believe it’s a beneficial technology....The best way and ...

Booming sales suggest non-browning Arctic apple could be breakthrough product, overcoming anti-GMO fears

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Jack Bobo doesn’t hold back when talking about the Arctic Apple. He believes the non-browning apple could change how people ...

Pro-farming social media campaigns haven’t changed consumer opinion on GMOs: Here’s why

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It happens at almost every farm meeting in Canada. Someone gets up from their chair, walks over to the podium ...

Will Canada rethink its proposed ban on neonicotinoid pesticides?

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Health Canada scientists have been studying water monitoring data, from across the country, and the Pest Management Regulatory Agency may ...

Viewpoint: Biotech industry must invest more in public outreach, or risk losing GMO debate to activists

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Agri-food is a $110 billion industry in Canada. Canola, just canola, supports 250,000 jobs and has a $26 billion impact ...
Viewpoint: USMCA North American trade deal sets precedent for sensible worldwide biotech crop regulations

Viewpoint: USMCA North American trade deal sets precedent for sensible worldwide biotech crop regulations

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In the crop science industry, China has a reputation for taking a long, long time to approve new genetically modified ...

Did Canada overestimate the risks of neonicotinoid pesticides?

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On Aug. 16, Health Canada’s Pest Management Regulatory Agency proposed to ban all outdoor uses of [the neonicotinoids] clothianidin and ...

Viewpoint: Public’s support for Canadian neonicotinoid ban obscures bigger threats to bee health

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On Aug. 15 .... Health Canada held a news conference to explain why it was banning neonicotinoid insecticides .... Health ...

Canada to decide on neonicotinoid restrictions this summer

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The fate of two neonicotinoid seed treatments, applied to almost all of the canola and corn seeds in Canada and ...
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Are farmers the key to countering glyphosate fearmongering?

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The public conversation around glyphosate is all flowing in one direction. A cluster of environmental campaigners, organic food activists and ...

Non-GMO herbicide-tolerant canola to be grown in Canada this year

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Supporting modern agriculture while also selling into the market for non-genetically modified food seems like a contradiction. But an American ...

Cargill tries to balance science and its embrace of Non-GMO label

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About 9 months ago Cargill sent out a tweet that unintentionally offended, and profoundly offended, thousands of North American farmers ...
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Viewpoint: Preaching to the choir won’t win over GMO skeptics

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Editor's note: Robert Arnason is an agriculture journalist. In 2017 I interviewed about 800 to 1,200 people about agriculture, agronomy, ...

Viewpoint: Challenges to glyphosate, neonic safety shows science under attack from ‘viral misinformation’

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The news of scientific prejudice [in the decision by IARC stating that glyphosate was a likely carcinogen, on top of ...

Opinions on GMOs less swayed by facts as food becomes synonymous with religion

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Personal food preferences aren’t really a rational choice. They’re more like an ideology that’s bordering on a religion. ... Gillian ...

Canada delays neonicotinoid insecticide ban decision until at least December 2017

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Health Canada won’t issue a final decision on whether it will ban imidacloprid [until at least December 2017], says a ...
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Health Canada’s proposed ban of a neonicotinoid pesticide draws criticism

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In November, Health Canada said that a nation-wide ban of imidacloprid, a neonicotinoid insecticide, was necessary because the chemical is ...

Pending EU decision whether to regulate CRISPR gene editing as GMOs raises trade fears

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It appears the European ...

Canadian Cancer Society gives green light to prudent use of glyphosate

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The Canadian Cancer Society isn’t calling for a ban on glyphosate. The Society says it’s acceptable to use pesticides to ...

Globally recognized epidemiologist pans WHO for misinterpreting his glyphosate study

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A Canadian toxicologist says the World Health Organization made a critical scientific error in its decision to classify glyphosate as ...