Women’s Bioethics Blog picked up one of my posts:
A group of researchers from the University of Southampton are hoping to establish a settlement of genetically modified poplar trees on land owned by the Forestry Commission as part of a research project into biofuels. Sounds good on its face – modified trees that may help us [...]

Agriculture company, Monsanto, has spent years in court and seemingly endless money to fight dairies who were labeling their milk rBGH-free. The compound - genetically engineered Recombinant bovine growth hormone (hence rBGH) has had controversy swirling around it for some time. Apparently the company is now fed up and facing a growing backlash against rBGH, [...]

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A new technology is emerging in Australia that may lead to a genetically modified variety of wheat that could withstand severe drought and increase yields by 20 per cent.
Professor German Spangenberg said that 35-50 per cent of wheat growing areas around the world were regularly exposed to drought conditions, and this new [...]

By: Jonathan Javitt
Imagine a cleaner pig. Thanks to researchers at the University of Guelph in Ontario, you don’t have to imagine – they’ve engineered them. It has nothing to do with their appearance – the look just like any other pig – but the difference can be found in their genetic makeup, specifically in [...]

This is an interesting post found during my blog search today. Reach it in its entirety here.
“What if I could buy a totally disease-resistant tomato plant? It would have to produce tomatoes that have great taste, of course, since that’s the reason I grow them.
But even if the taste was only equal to what you [...]

Prince Charles drew criticism with an outspoken attack on industrial farming Wednesday, warning genetically modified food could be the “biggest disaster environmentally of all time.”
Charles said millions of small farmers around the world could be driven off their land into “degraded and dysfunctional conurbations of unmentionable awfulness” by the rise of global conglomerates.
The heir to [...]

A book that’s being called “almost impossible to put down” by the New York Post is on sale now on Amazon!
The novel follows Dr. Gwen Maulder, an FDA scientist who is hot on the trail of a conspiracy that leads her through the corridors of power and ends in death for too many innocent victims. [...]