Love Bananas? What If We’re Facing Banana Extinction?
It’s hard to imagine a world without bananas. When we were kids, they were a staple in our lunchboxes, and as adults, they’re an easy fruit to grab on our way to the office. So it’s no wonder that each time we hear the banana’s future may be threatened, we perk up and ask questions. Trouble is, we keep getting different answers. Are we on the brink of banana extinction, or not? According to the pro genetic...
GMO Sapiens – Human Genetic Engineering
While we’re wrapping our heads around GMO-related environmental and health consequences from crops, scientists are moving forward yet again into new territory. Are designer babies the next step in GMOs? Are we at the dawn of human genetic engineering?? Thanks to technology referred to as CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats), this idea, once reserved for science fiction, is closer to becoming...
GMOs in Eggs?
According to the USDA, eggs are not a genetically modified or bioengineered food. Even when a laying hen eats genetically engineered feed, the USDA claims any products unique to genetic engineering are destroyed by the hen’s digestive process. And The National Egg Board has several studies claiming this as well. But there are those who aren’t convinced, including thesustainablelife.us. We find these reports laughable when we...
GE Diamondback Moth to the Rescue?
UK-based biotechnology company, Oxitec, genetically engineers creepy crawlers, including the yellow fever mosquito. Now another genetically engineered insect, the GE diamondback moth, is joining their buggy lineup. Through a Cornell University project in New York state, Oxitec is field-testing a genetically engineered version of the diamondback moth. The moth is considered a global pest to agriculture, in particular to plants in the...
Controversial Dr. Ayyadurai Challenges Monsanto
Dr. VA Shiva Ayyadurai, the entrepreneurial brains behind seven businesses has been in the news more recently for his views on GMO testing. And now, in the ongoing debate over the regulation of genetically modified foods, he’s offered a $10 million building to Monsanto if they can disprove his research about GMOs. “I wanted to get at the heart of this GMO issue,” said Ayyadurai. “It’s a huge...
7 Things You Need to Know About the FDA’s Approval of GMO Salmon
GMO Salmon Is Officially on Its Way The FDA just approved genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon, produced by the company AquaBounty. They engineered the salmon by adding a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon and a promoter gene from an ocean pout. Ocean pout is an eel-like fish that can grow year-round in freezing waters, and as an article by Tim Schwab from Food & Water Watch put it, “is only as closely related to...
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