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Apr 27, 2015 · Recognizing that human psychology plays a role in the distrust of GMOs isn't new (Maria Konnikova wrote an excellent post on the topic for the New Yorker in 2013), but the forthcoming paper in ...
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Jun 8, 2016 · The research, authored by 20 of the nation's top agricultural experts, found no evidence that genetically-modified organisms are dangerous for human health or the environment. In total, authors of ...
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May 18, 2016 · A massive National Academy of Science review of hundreds of studies on genetically engineered (GE) food crops, comparing the US, where the crops have been used heavily for 20 years, and Europe ...
- The Flawed Processes of GMO Risk Assessment
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- The True Purpose of GMOs
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Some of my concerns with GMOs, however, are “just” practical. I have read numerous GMO risk assessment applications. These are the documents that governments rely on to ‘prove’ their safety. Though these documents are quite long and quite complex, their length is misleading in that they primarily ask trivial questions. Furthermore, the experiments ...
Aside from grave doubts about the quality and integrity of risk assessments, I also have specific science-based concerns over GMOs. These concerns are mostly particular to specific transgenes and traits. Many GMO plants are engineered to contain their own insecticides. These GMOs, which include maize, cotton and soybeans, are called Bt plants. Bt p...
Science is not the only grounds on which GMOs should be judged. The commercial purpose of GMOs is not to feed the world or improve farming. Rather, they exist to gain intellectual property (i.e. patent rights) over seeds and plant breeding and to drive agriculture in directions that benefit agribusiness. This drive is occurring at the expense of fa...
Genetically engineered food has had its DNA, RNA, or proteins manipulated by intentional human intervention. We provide an overview of the importance and regulation of genetically engineered food and lay attitudes toward it. We first discuss the pronaturalness context in the United States and Europe that preceded the appearance of genetically engineered food. We then review the definition ...
Jan 9, 2024 · In the food industry, GMO crops have had genes added to them for various reasons, such as improving: their growth. nutritional content. sustainability. pest resistance. ease of farming. While it ...
May 17, 2016 · In this chapter, the committee examines the evidence that substantiates or negates specific hypotheses and claims about the health risks and benefits associated with foods derived from genetically engineered (GE) crops. There are many reviews and official statements about the safety of foods from GE crops (for example, see Box 5-1), but to conduct a fresh examination of the evidence, the ...
