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• in Green
  Scientist Claims Link Between GMO Crops and Livestock Infertility
  Roundup Ready Alfalfa is only the beginning in a long slide away from organic crop production
  by themomu / on Apr 2, 2011
• in Green
  Organic Farmers Prepare to Deliver a "Beet" Down to the Feds and Big Business
  The USDA defies a Federal ruling against genetically modified sugar beets; the organic community takes to the Internet in protest.
  by jreinh01 / on Feb 6, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “genetic engineering”

 

• Environmental Review to Delay Two Engineered Crops

  
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  The Agriculture Department said approval of the crops might affect the environment and human health.        
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• Importance of Juma

  
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  Importance of Juma [IMG: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lI0nkbGiDE8/UYv4ARdhphI/AAAAAAAAaZk/2bKc_ArOyig/s640/942997_446915862068164_970239252_n.jpg][IMG: http://img.zemanta.com/zemified_h.png?x-id=23df1b0f-fc8b-4489-8fdc-af57195a002e]
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• Bioluminescent Plants to Light our Streets Without Electricity

  
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  A Kickstarter project seeks to replace traditional lighting of our streets glowing plants , which would be produced by new advances in synthetic biology and genetic engineering. Create bioluminescent plants that function as “lamps” in our cities could be a reality in less time than we think. Thanks to an ...
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• Q&A with Haven Baker on Simplot’s Innate™ Potatoes

  
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  Haven Baker, Vice President of Plant Sciences at J.R. Simplot Company There’s a new genetically engineered potato in town that doesn’t brown when cut or fried, nor does it make acrylamide. J. R. Simplot Company petitioned the USDA to deregulate their Innate™ potatoes, and the public comment period has just ...
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• KQED Quest on GMOs

  
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  KQED Quest , based in San Francisco, has just posted a half-hour special on GMOs called Next Meal: Engineering your Food , by Gabriela Quirós. In the wake of proposition 37 in California there has been a lot more public awareness of genetically engineered crops, but little public education about it. (Just think ...
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• A Dream of Glowing Trees Is Assailed for Gene-Tinkering

  
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  A project to create a plant that glows in the dark, potentially leading the way for trees that can replace streetlamps, has been denounced for tinkering with genes.        
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• Frankenfish or scientific marvel?: giant GM salmon await U.S. approval

  
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  It is hard to think of a more unlikely setting for genetic experimentation or for raising salmon: a rundown shed at a secretive location in the Panamanian rainforest miles inland and 1,500m above sea level. But the facility, which is owned by an American company AquaBounty Technologies, stands on the verge of ...
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• GMO Wheat and shouting “fire” in a crowded theater

  
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  Stoking fears to sway your emotions A report from an activist group called Safe Food Foundation (SFF) came out last fall that caused a minor stir upon it’s first release. They claimed that they had unearthed an issue with GMO wheat being studied by the Australian CSIRO researchers. The wheat under ...
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• GMO : They’re Not What You’ve Been Told

  
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  GMO – Part 1 This is a series about genetically modified organisms. We anticipate there will be three parts. It will be comprehensive, but if you are truly interested in this field, we hope you enjoy this. Genetically Modified Organisms are bad. Monsanto is evil. These crops are killing us.  Well, not really. ...
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• Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich. one billion can’t afford bread!

  
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  Starving the Poor to Stuff the Rich: The Global Agri-Business Model 04/05/2013 by Don Quijones A daily ration of bread is now beyond the reach of roughly a billion people on  planet Earth. What’s more, hunger is spreading like a pandemic, making incursions from its traditional strongholds in the global south to ...
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• Nature Special on GE crops

  
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  This week, readers of the Biofortified Blog are in for a treat. The Journal Nature has a special feature on genetically engineered crops , complete with editorials, perspectives, and an article on the next generation of these crops featuring some people who you may find familiar. Here are a few snippets to give you a ...
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• Toni’s Farm and Food Roundup

  
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  Though moisture returns to Midwest states, farmers are still facing the effects of last year’s drought. Veterinarians in midwestern states are discovering an abnormal amount of Vitamin A deficiencies in calves this year , likely due to feed provided to the calves. Many farmers are dipping into a stored supply of ...
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• GE not our farming future

  
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  The Government’s National Science Challenges include an arrogant intention to spend taxpayers’ money on swaying community opposition towards support for genetic engineering. While the jargon loaded Challenge documents are a struggle to read, the message by pro-GE scientists in the primary production section is ...
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• “Cracked Open”: New Book Looks at Fertility and Reproductive Technology

  
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  Our Bodies Ourselves board member Miriam Zoll has a new book coming out on May 1, “ Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility and the Pursuit of High Tech Babies .” Zoll tells her own story of infertility and IVF treatments, and shares what she learned along the way about assisted reproductive technologies. From the ...
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• You Need to Know

  
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  ~ tulip ~ Are you familiar with ICE? No, not ice but ICE... in case of emergency . If you have a mobile phone or a land line, you should consider putting ICE into your address book followed by the name of someone to call in case of emergency. For example - ICE Jane Doe and her phone number. If youre in an accident, ...
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• Monsanto, Dow & Co. team up on GE

  
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  When arch-competitors Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences make a GE seed deal and both come out looking very smug, you have to wonder. When, five days later, Monsanto and Bayer CropScience announce a deal to cross-license their competing GE seed technologies with each other, you should probably start to worry. What are all ...
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• Is this the century we begin to build starships ?

  
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  Starship Century is a symposium (May 21-23, 2013 in San Diego) coordinated by the new Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination in collaboration with Gregory and James Benford, presenting ideas from their anthology of science and science fiction. Scientists address the challenges and opportunities for our ...
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• Interview with Ron Stotish at BIO

  
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  Recently, we announced that we were going to interview Ron Stotish, the President and CEO of AquaBounty , the company that has made a fast-growing genetically engineered salmon. If approved for sale in the United States, it would be the first genetically engineered animal approved for human consumption. Consequently, ...
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• Soon You’ll Be Able to do Genetic Engineering at Home!

  
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  A new Kickstarter project says that it’s high time for your to do some genetic engineering of your own. This basic kit just does one thing. It allows even a beginner to grow a plant that combines a mustard flower with jellyfish DNA. But, according to io9 this is just the very beginning: “What’s amazing is all ...
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• Radioactive Microbes Nuke Tumor Cells

  
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  A group of researchers has hit upon a novel way to halt cancers spread: delivering radiation directly to the cancer cells using genetically modified bacteria.
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