Trump administration lifts ban on bee-killing chemicals and GMO crops in wildlife refuges This is the latest move by the Trump administration to dismantle Obama-era environmental protections The Independent UK · Aug 7, 2018
Trump administration lifts GMO crop ban for U.S. wildlife refuges (Reuters) - The Trump administration has rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of pesticides linked to declining bee populations and the cultivation of genetically modified crops in dozens of national wildlife refuges where farming is permitted. Reuters · Aug 4, 2018
Brazilian tribes fined for GMO soy crops on reservations CONQUISTA DO OESTE, Brazil (Reuters) - The savannah scrubland where Chief João Ponce once hunted deer and wild boar in Brazil has given way to neat rows of soy and corn that a tractor sprays with herbicide. In the next field, silver grain silos shimmer in the hot sun. Reuters · Jun 8, 2018
These CRISPR-modified crops don't count as GMOs To feed the burgeoning human population, it is vital that the world figures out ways to boost food production. The Conversation · May 22, 2018
Research, for whom? Looking back at some 30 years of working in the social sector, I believe that the most important milestone in my journey was the point when I started recognising the importance of research in development. Newslaundry · May 10, 2018
EU rules Italian ban on GMO crop unlawful BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Europe's top court ruled on Wednesday that Italy had been wrong to ban cultivation of an EU-approved genetically modified (GMO) maize as it had failed to show there was a serious risk to public health or the environment. Reuters · Sep 13, 2017
Poultry farmers using more antibiotics linked to resistant food poisoning bugs Fluoroquinolones are becoming less effective in treating human infections, and critics say their excessive use on chickens is to blame The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2016