In the news . . .

• Meet the Climate-Defying Fruits and Vegetables in Your Future -- The New York Times (25 September 2023)
  
  
• The turbo-charged plants that could boost farm output -- BBCNews (18 September 2023)
  
  
• Food crops made 20% more efficient at harnessing sunlight -- BBCNews (18 August 2022)
  
  
• Cracking the code -- BBCReel (07 May 2021)
  
  
• The forgotten foods that can revolutionise your diet -- BBCReel (04 February 2021)
  
  
• Environment department scientist calls for biotechnology debate -- The Guardian (07 January 2021)
  
  
• Mexico farm lobby blasts ban on GMO corn; organic growers welcome it -- Reuters (02 January 2021)
  
  
• FDA approves new genetically modified pig for allergy-free medical and food products -- CNNHealth (14 December 2020)
  
  
• As biotech crops lose their power, scientists push for new restrictions -- MPRNews (29 October 2020)
  
  
• Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’ -- The Guardian (26 October 2019)
  
  
• Avocado Toast, Meet Gene Editing: Scientists in the U.S. and Mexico have mapped the DNA of several varieties, work that could help the fruit survive the effects of climate change -- The New York Times (27 September 2019)
  
  
• Candidate to run global food body will 'not defend' EU stance on GM -- The Guardian (02 June 2019)
  
  
• The GM chickens that lay eggs with anti-cancer drugs -- BBCNews (28 January 2019)
  
  
• A "Disturbing Trend" in Public Acceptance of GMOs -- John Phipps, AgWeb (15 January 2019)
  
  
• Genetically modified 'shortcut' boosts plant growth by 40% -- BBCNews (03 January 2019)
  
  
• US plan to genetically alter crops via insects feared to be biological war plan -- The Guardian (04 Octoer 2018)
  
  
• Wheat gene map to help 'feed the world' -- BBCscience (16 August 2018)
  
  
• Science’s search for a super banana -- The Guardian (05 August 2018)
  
  
• Europe Deals A Blow To CRISPR Technology, U.S. Approves 'Bleeding' Veggie Burger -- NPR The Salt (04 August 2018)
  
  
• G.M.O. Foods Will Soon Require Labels. What Will the Labels Say? -- The New York Times (12 May 2018)
  
  
• GMO Crops Have an Unintended Side-Effect: Protecting Non-GMOs -- NOVA (23 March 2018)
  
  
• Big Ag GAG: 29 states quietly pass “preemptive seed laws” that prevent debate and local government autonomy over genetically engineered crops -- Natural News (17 November 2017)
  
  
• Syngenta settles U.S. farmer lawsuits in China corn trade case -- MPRNews (26 September 2017)
  
  
• Quinoa could solve the world's looming food shortage, say scientists who cracked the plant's gene code -- The Telegraph (08 February 2017)
  
  
• Will Veggie Burgers & Fake Meat Substitutes Ever Top the Real Thing -- THRILLIST (05 January 2017)
  
  
• Lang, John. What’s So Controversial about Genetically-Modified Foods? London: Reaktion Publishers. 2016
  
  
• Scientists apply for GM wheat trial in UK -- BBCNews (4 November 2016)
  
  
• Doubts About the Promised Bounty of Genetically Modified Crops -- The New York Times (31 October 2016)
  
  
• In Push for G.M.O.s, China Battles Fears of 8-Legged Chickens -- The New York Times (19 October 2016)
  
  
• Big Ag Strikes Back: Why Did the Obamas Fail to Take On Corporate Agriculture? -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times Magazine (05 October 2016)
  
  • Farmer in Chief -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times Magazine (09 October 2008)
    
    
• The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture -- George Steinmetz, The New York Times Magazine (05 October 2016)
  
  
• US farmers go 'natural' for profits -- BBCNews (19 September 2016)
  
  
• As a GMO Pillar Wobbles, Biotech Companies Promise New Insect-Killing Genes -- MPRNews (22 September 2016)
  
  
• Chemical giant Bayer agrees to buy Monsanto for $66 billion -- MPRNews (14 September 2016)
  
  
• Crime in the fields: How Monsanto and scofflaw farmers hurt soybeans in Arkansas -- MPRNews (01 August 2016)
  
  
• Genetically Modified Golden Rice Falls Short on Promises -- Lancaster Farming (17 July 2016)
  
  
• Senate Passes A GMO Labeling Bill That The Food Industry Likes --- NPR, The Salt: What's on Your Plate (08 July 2016)
  
  
• GM food: What's in a label? Plenty, says Vermont -- BBCNews (01 July 2016)
  
  
• What $62 billion in cash could buy you: Monsanto -- MPRNews (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Bayer's Monsanto bid to create biggest agricultural supplier -- BBCNews (23 May 2016)
  
  
• Bayer makes takeover offer for agriculture giant Monsanto -- BBCNews (19 May 2016)
  
  
• The Fake-Meat Burger So Realistic It Fooled My Entire Family -- Bon Appétit (27 April 2016)
  
  
• General Mills to label products with GMOs ahead of Vt. law -- MPRNews (18 March 2016)
  
  
• Farmers May Have Been Accidentally Making GMOs for Millennia -- New Scientist (07 March 2016)
  
  
• Counterpoint: Shame on you, Amy, for betraying us on GMO labels -- StarTribune (02 March 2016)
  
  
• Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show -- ERIC LIPTON, The New York Times (05 September 2015)
  
  
• MPs call for reform of GM crops rules -- BBCNews (25 February 2015)
  
  
• Many Americans Reject Evolution, Deny Climate Change and Find GM Food Unsafe, Survey Finds -- Guardian (29 January 2015)
  
  
• Evolution Deniers Believe in 'Smorgasbord' of Science -- LiveScience (29 January 2015)
  
  
• 'Safer GMOs' made by US scientists -- BBCNews (21 January 2015)
  
  
• EU changes rules on GM crop-growing -- BBC (13 January 2015)
  
  
• GM crops: what it will mean for you if British farmers get green light -- The Telegraph (13 January 2015)
  
  
• Campbell Labels Will Disclose G.M.O. Ingredients -- The New York Times (07 January 2016)
  
  
• “81 Percent of GM Crops Approved Without Adequate Safety Studies” -- Nation of Change ( 22 November 2014)
  
  
• “Mainstream Media Blackout of the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement” -- Nation of Change ( 21 November 2014)
  
  
• Humans' Amazing Evolution From Hunter-Gatherer to Safeway Shopper -- National Geographic News (09 November 2014)
  
  
• Golden Rice: Lifesaver? -- Amy Harmon, The New York Times (25 August 2013)
  
  
• All Hail Hungary: Country Bravely Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn - AGAIN -- Christina Sarich, NotionofChange (22 August 2013)
  
  
• Monsanto, Big Agribusiness to Spend Millions on GMO Propaganda -- Katherine Paul, Zack Kaldveer, AlterNet (05 July 2013)
  
  
• The Quest to Save Oranges Finds Hope in a Gene: Growers turned to genetics in hopes of building a tougher orange tree. But what intervention would the public accept? -- Amy Harmon, The New York Times (27 July 2013)
  
  
• The Final Stand: Grassroots Movement Against Monsanto Explodes -- Nation of Change (10 July 2013)
  
  
• Monsanto’s GMO Policy Infecting All Levels of Government -- Will Fantle, Nation of Change (07 July 2013)
  
  
• Connecticut poised to enact first GMO food labeling law in US -- MPRNews (07 June 2013)
  
  
• Europe, Nations Around the World Rejecting Monsanto -- Elizabeth Renter, Nation of Change (06 June 2013)
  
  
• Front Groups Exposed: 50 Industry Groups Form a New Alliance to Manipulate Public Opinion About Junk Food, GMOs and Harmful Additives -- Mercola, Joseph M., Nation of Change (2 June 2013)
  
  
• Reinventing Farming For A Changing Climate -- NPR (24 May 2013)
  
  
• Marchers in over 400 cities protest Monsanto -- The Washington Post (25 May 2013)
  
  
• Monsanto's win was more about patents than seeds -- NPRNews (13 May 2013)
  
  
• High court rules for Monsanto in patent case -- NPRNews (13 May 2013)
  
  
• Monsanto Has Created the World's Largest GMO Monopoly -- Ethan A. Huff, Natural News, Readers Supported News (13 April 2013)
  
  
• What Every Parent Should Know About Monsanto -- Nation of Change (07 April 2013)
  
  
• Monsanto Protection Act put GM companies above the federal courts -- John Vidal, The Guardian (04 April 2013)
  
  
• Did Congress Just Give GMOs A Free Pass In The Courts? -- Maria Godoy, NPR (21 March 2013)
  
  
• Major Grocer to Label Foods With Gene-Modified Content -- STEPHANIE STROM, The New York Times (08 March 2013)
  
  
• Farmer's Fight With Monsanto Reaches The Supreme Court -- Dan Charles, NPR (18 February 2013)
  
  
• The Looming Future of GMO Technology: Transhumanism, Biocrops and More -- Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society News Report, Nation of Change (01 February 2013)
  
  
• Research results pointed Ben & Jerry's down non-GMO path -- Hank Schultz, FoodNavigatorUSA (01 February 2013)
  
  
• Top US Healthcare Giant: GMOs Are Devastating Health -- Anthony Gucciardi, NauralSociety (28 November 2012)
  
  
• Those bugs 'are going to outsmart us' -- JOSEPHINE MARCOTTY , Star Tribune (24 November 2012)
  
  
• Vote for the Dinner Party: Is this the year that the food movement finally enters politics? -- Michael Pollan, The New York Times (10 October 2012)
  
  
• Nature May Soon Overcome Monsanto -- Anthony Gucciardi, Natural Society (30 June 2012)
  
  
• Genetic Engineers Explain Why GE Food is Dangerous -- ECO Watch (24 June 2012)
  
  
• Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food -- AMY HARMON and ANDREW POLLACK, The New York Times (25 May 2012)
  
  
• Millions Against Monsanto: The Food Fight of Our Lives -- Ronnie Cummins, AlterNet (12 April 2012)
  
  
• Rootworm could be resistant to genetically modified crops -- by Mark Steil, Minnesota Public Radio (17 August 2011)
  
  
• Frankenfish Phobia -- The New York Times (17 March 2011)

Just Label It

• 20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM) Foods -- Biotechnology (GM foods) publications, World Health Organization (WHO)
  
  
• AgBioWorld
  
  
• Antibiotic-resistance genes as markers
  
  
• BioPortal -- Government of Canada
  
  
• BioTech Now
  
  
• [video] Can GM Food Save The World? (2009, 59 min.) -- BBC Documentary [from Top Documentary Films]
  
  
• Center for Food Safety
  • True Food Network
    • Shoppers Guide to Avoiding GE Foods
    • Pocket Shoppers’ Guide
      
      
• Center for Science in the Public Interest
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• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
  • Food Irradiation (Not a GM procedure)
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• Combating Drug Resistance -- Pharmaceutical International
  
  
• Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository
  
  
• Community for Food Security Coalition
  
  
• Council for Biotechnology Information
  
  
• Environmental Ethics Case Studies -- American Physiological Society (APS)
  
  
• FDA -- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  • A to Z Subject Index
  • Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS)
  • Food
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• Fitting, Liz. "Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue." (2013).
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

• Food safety & Human nutrition
• Food Balance Sheets
  
  
• Food Safety and Quality -- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
  
  
• Funding Strategy for the Implementation of the Global Plan of Action for Animal Genetic Resources -- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: Corporate Document Repository
  
  
• Genetically Engineered Foods -- NIH National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  
  
• Genetic Engineering -- Sierra Club
  
  
• [video] Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison (2005, 47 min.) -- [from Top Documentary Films]
  • Genetically Modified Food: Panacea or Poison (2005, 47 min.) -- [from ]
    
    
• Genetically Modified Organisms -- European Food Safety Authority (efsa)
  
  
• [film] Genetic Roulette (85 min., 2012), Director: Jeffrey M. Smith
  
  
• GM and Novel Foods -- U.K. Food Standards Agency
  
  
• GM - Genetic modification -- Soil Association
  
  
• GMO Compass
  
  
• GM Foods and Nanofoods -- National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA)
  
  
• GMOs/Nanofoods -- The Food Empowerment
  
  
• Gore, Al. The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change. Random House, 2013.
  
  
• Hess, John L., and Karen Hess. The Taste of America. NY: Viking / Grossman Publishers, 1977. [The Green Revolution]
  
  
• Ho, Mae-Wann, The Unholy Alliance, The Ecologist, Vol. 27, No.4, (July/August 1977)
  
  
• [video] Jimmy's GM Food Fight (2008, 59 min.) -- [from Top Documentary Films]
  
  
• Just Label It
  
  
• Kimbrell, Andrew, Ed. Fatal Harvest: The Tragedy of Industrial Agriculture. Sausalito, CA: Foundation for Deep Ecology, 2002.
  
  
• Lang, John. What’s So Controversial about Genetically-Modified Foods? London: Reaktion Publishers. 2016
  
  
• Millstone, Erik, and Tim Lang. The Atlas of Food: Who Eats What, Where, and Why. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008.
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety. Berleley, CA: University of Caliornia Press, 2010.
  
  
• Nestle, Marion. What to Eat. NY: North Point, 2007.
  
  
• Nutrition, Health & Food Safety Programs -- Colorado State University Extension
  
  
• Organic Consumers Association
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• [video] Patent For A Pig: The Big Business of Genetics (2006, 43 min.) -- [from Top Documentary Films]
  • Patent For A Pig: The Big Business of Genetics (2006, 43 min.) -- [from ]
    
    
• Politics Heating Up Over Labeling Genetically Modified Foods -- the salt [food blog], NPR (17 October 2011)
  
  
• Processed Foods -- HuffingtonPost
  
  
• Roberts, Paul. The End of Food. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008.
  
  
• Robin, Marie-Monique. The World According to Monsanto. New Press, 2012.
  • [film] The World According to Monsanto, Marie-Monique Robin, Director. (109 min., 2008)
  • The World According to Monsanto (2008, 108 min.) -- [from Top Documentary Films]
    
    
• [video] Seeds of Death (2012, 80 min.) -- [from Top Documentary Films]
  
  
• Smith, Jeffrey. Everything you HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerously Genetically Modified Foods. (watch video)
  
  
  • Also available on YouTube at Everything You HAVE TO KNOW about Dangerous Genetically Modified Foods GMOs, Health & Disease — by Craig Mackintosh, Editor, Permaculture Research Institute of Australia (PRI), 10 January 2010.
    
    
• Smith, Jeffrey. Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods. Chelsea Green, 2007. [book and video]
  
  
• Tribe, David. Academics Review meets Genetic Roulette. Biology, Fortified, Inc., 27 March 2010.
  
  
• Smith, Jeffrey. Seeds of Deception. Fairfield, IA: Yes Books/Chelsea Green, 2003.
  
  
• Sustainable Agriculture and Genetic Engineering -- Greenpeace USA
  
  
• Capturing the History of Biotech > Timelines >
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• True Food Network -- Center for Food Safety
  • Shoppers Guide to Avoiding GE Foods
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• 20 Questions on Genetically Modified (GM)Foods -- Biotechnology (GM foods) publications, World Health Organization (WHO)
  
  
• United States Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website -- U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Fund of the Department of State Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs
  
  
• USDA Economic Research Service
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