2017

News and comment on genetically modified foods and their associated pesticides

2017

List of articles in category 2017
Title	Created Date
Banana growers oppose GM field-testing in Mindanao, Philippines	30 December 2017
Vast majority of UK public – including Brexit voters – want to keep EU bans on pesticides	30 December 2017
Uganda: Museveni declines to sign GMO bill into law	29 December 2017
Nigeria: Food safety threatened as agency permits experimental GMO cassava	26 December 2017
Seed association unhappy with Maharashtra govt for seeking damages from seed suppliers	26 December 2017
New poll shows that voters oppose Monsanto/Bayer Ag merger	24 December 2017
Flawed EPA analysis rejects finding that glyphosate is a probable carcinogen	23 December 2017
GM soybeans: Testbiotech accuses companies of manipulating risk assessment	21 December 2017
GMO bananas not the answer	21 December 2017
A chance for change – Please support GMWatch	21 December 2017
Best books of 2017	18 December 2017
"Monsanto is buying their way through Arkansas politics"	18 December 2017
Please support GMWatch	18 December 2017
Playing God: Are we prepared to use gene drive technology?	15 December 2017
National ban on glyphosate in Austria within reach	15 December 2017
India: Farmer unions demand action against illegal GM herbicide-tolerant cotton	15 December 2017
Legislative committee sends dicamba rules back to Arkansas Plant Board	15 December 2017
GM genes are still getting into native Mexican maize	14 December 2017
Genetic resistance to "billion-dollar bug" found in corn	14 December 2017
Mahrashtra govt files charges with police against Monsanto, other seed companies	13 December 2017
This is how badly Monsanto wants farmers to spray its problematic herbicide	13 December 2017
GM soybeans: EFSA withholding crucial documents	12 December 2017
Commission rejects demands of #StopGlyphosate Citizens’ Initiative	12 December 2017
Biohacker CRISPRs himself in attempt to get bigger muscles	11 December 2017
Monsanto offers cash to US farmers who use controversial chemical	11 December 2017
Socio-economic research on GM crops short on evidence, big on hype	11 December 2017
How Monsanto’s GM cotton sowed trouble in Africa	08 December 2017
Will new restrictions on dicamba spraying save US food crops?	08 December 2017
Cross-party pressure builds for EU decision on glyphosate to be annulled	07 December 2017
Monsanto moves to stop Arkansas from banning weedkiller dicamba	06 December 2017
India: Political leader arrested while leading farmer protest over failing GM Bt cotton	06 December 2017
Indian state of Telangana to curb supply of GM herbicide-tolerant cotton	06 December 2017
Maharashtra’s GM Bt cotton crop devastated by pest it was supposed to kill	06 December 2017
Is Big Food's lobbying arm on the brink of extinction?	05 December 2017
Criminal complaint filed against EU authorities after glyphosate approval	05 December 2017
Gates Foundation hired PR firm to manipulate UN over gene drives	04 December 2017
US military revealed as top funder of gene drives	04 December 2017
Who will feed us? The industrial food chain vs the Peasant Food Web	01 December 2017
One-third of food lost, wasted – enough to feed all hungry people	01 December 2017
"I’ve been labelled ‘anti-farmer’ and ‘anti-rural’ for questioning Roundup" – MEP	01 December 2017
The time is ripe for a poison-free agriculture	30 November 2017
100-plus groups urge Feds to increase funding to save monarch butterflies	30 November 2017
Corporate-spun science should not be guiding policy	30 November 2017
Genome-edited foods must be labelled as GMOs – industry body	30 November 2017
Major food industry players desert GMO labelling opponent, the GMA	29 November 2017
Glyphosate row casts shadow over German coalition prospects	28 November 2017
With glyphosate re-approved, is environmentalists' strategy in tatters?	28 November 2017
Weedkiller vote poisons European politics	28 November 2017
Scandal erupts around German glyphosate vote	27 November 2017
Europe extends glyphosate approval for five years	27 November 2017
Legal expert - Juncker has power to get glyphosate off shelves	27 November 2017
Unsafe practice in spraying pesticide on GM cotton is killing farmers	26 November 2017
Mexico revokes permit to market GMO soy in seven states	24 November 2017
India's cotton exports to drop as pink bollworms eat GMO crop	24 November 2017
Brexit could kill the precautionary principle	23 November 2017
2,4-D herbicide for GM cotton gets nod from Arkansas state Plant Board	23 November 2017
The fall of GM cotton in India	23 November 2017
Scientists warn of toxic chemical cocktail sprayed on food	22 November 2017
Monsanto's efforts to destroy IARC – investigation by Le Monde	22 November 2017
Glyphosate study crowdfunding launches after preliminary research shows health effects at permitted doses	21 November 2017
Does the US want to get rid of GMO regulations?	21 November 2017
Missouri will limit use of dicamba in 2018	21 November 2017
Actor Michael Sheen slams Monsanto for causing pollution in Wales	21 November 2017
Argentine groups demand food emergency law to fight poverty, malnutrition	19 November 2017
Current CRISPR gene drives are too strong for outdoor use, studies warn	19 November 2017
South Australia is GM-free-secure till 2025	19 November 2017
Genetically engineering the natural world could be a disaster	17 November 2017
Organic agriculture can feed the world – with conditions	17 November 2017
New research finds GM crop-related herbicides cause antibiotic resistance	17 November 2017
India: GM Bt cotton falls victim to pest it's supposed to resist	17 November 2017
UK: Announcing the Big Gene Gathering +20	16 November 2017
Monsanto, US farm groups sue California over glyphosate warnings	16 November 2017
Updated Ag Health Study shows link between glyphosate and acute myeloid leukemia	16 November 2017
GM crop ban extension in South Australia to 2025 passes Upper House	16 November 2017
“Food Evolution” documentary supports GMOs, but not science, Part 2	13 November 2017
Farmer groups slam PhilRice for renewed push to field and feed test GM golden rice	10 November 2017
The decisions behind Monsanto's weed-killer crisis	09 November 2017
From Brussels to Arkansas, a tough week for Monsanto	09 November 2017
EU: 4.3% drop in GM crop cultivation	09 November 2017
EU governments reject Commission push for glyphosate	09 November 2017
Arkansas panel backs ban of herbicide dicamba	09 November 2017
France to oppose EU 5-year renewal for glyphosate weedkiller	08 November 2017
GM soybean being cultivated illegally in India: Farmer group	08 November 2017
Screening of new Monsanto papers	08 November 2017
Civil society rejects GMOs at FAO meeting	08 November 2017
Switching to a non-GMO diet can improve health – survey	07 November 2017
The golden ticket: Farmers go organic in quest to make money again	07 November 2017
Trump's agriculture department reverses course on biotech rules	07 November 2017
Re-authorization of glyphosate is illegal – lawyer	06 November 2017
Monsanto accused of ignoring relevant scientific data on glyphosate	06 November 2017
Genome editing is not the answer to world hunger, say NGOs	06 November 2017
The EU and glyphosate: Time to put children's health before pesticides	06 November 2017
Monsanto, Henry Miller, and the FDA	05 November 2017
Over 20 NGOs demand comprehensive Parliamentary ban on Monsanto lobbying	03 November 2017
Inhalation of glyphosate herbicide increases anxiety	03 November 2017
How Monsanto captured the EPA (and twisted science) to keep glyphosate on the market	03 November 2017
Crops in 25 states damaged by drift of dicamba weedkiller	02 November 2017
Farming without glyphosate — would it work?	02 November 2017
Goodbye to golden rice?	01 November 2017
Glyphosate: Less toxic than table salt?	01 November 2017

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