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New genetic extinction experiment raises environmental and health alarms
Gene drives could have serious and potentially irreversible impacts on public health and the environment. We need to stop these risky experiments from being rushed out of the lab and into the environm…
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Gene-Edited Organisms in Agriculture
The unexpected and unintended effects of all genetically engineered organisms, regardless of whether ‘traditional’ or gene-edited genetic engineering techniques have been used, have the potential…
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NEW REPORT: Gene Editing in Agriculture Poses New Risks to Health, Environment
On the heels on the European Court of Justice’s ruling requiring organisms developed using new genetic engineering techniques to undergo GMO risk assessments, and several new studies revealing “ge…
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Why Non-GMO Plant Based Proteins are One Solution to Factory Farming
Why do we need genetically engineered proteins when many other safe, sustainable and healthy non-GMO or organic plant-based meat and dairy replacements, and other plant proteins, are available and gro…
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European Court rules new genetically engineered seeds and foods should be classified and regulated as GMOs
All products made with genetic engineering, including ones made with gene-editing tools like CRISPR, should be regulated, assessed for health and environmental impacts, and labeled.
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Consumer, Environmental, Farmer Groups Demand Strong GMO Food Labeling Standards
Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and dozens of consumer, environmental, and farming organizations and companies submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on the agency’s lon…
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From Lab to Fork
Whether made from genetically engineered yeast or through in vitro processes, these next-generation animal replacement products are manufactured in resource-intensive factories. The products are often…
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2018 Farm Bill Watch: A Sneak Attack on the Organic Standards?
Because of its promise for rural America, organic agriculture has growing support from both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. So why is there language in the Farm Bill that would weaken the organ…
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GMO Animal Replacement Products
Genetically engineered animal replacement products are entering the market before they have been proven to be safe, scalable and sustainable alternatives to factory farmed animal products.
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Trump announces rollback of GMO, biotechnology regulations
This is just the latest of Trump’s attacks on sensible, science-based regulations, once again putting the interests of corporations ahead of the interests of our health and environment.