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Block party: Are activists thwarting GMO innovation?
GM technology hasn't lived up to its hype. Genetic-engineering proponents blame activists. Here's a deeper look at the GMO blame game.
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Rice seeds could save the day for Filipino typhoon victims
Another way Typhoon Haiyan sucked: it hit at rice-planting time. NGOs are now trying to help Filipino farmers avoid famine.
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Vitamin D’oh: Your multivitamins aren’t doing a damn thing
A group of influential doctors warn that there's no evidence multivitamins improve health. Should you take them anyway?
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Meat the press: What Rolling Stone’s scary farm exposé gets right — and wrong
The magazine's gore-filled investigation into animal farming brings the horror, but leaves context on the slaughterhouse floor.
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Forsaking GMOs helps some farmers rake in the cheddar
To meet demand, growers and seed suppliers are finding that the non-GMO category is a growth market.
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Is genetic engineering a doomed effort to reinvent nature’s wheel?
Much GMO research is just walking roads that evolution already tried. Is gene-splicing a dead end and should scientists just move on?
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Promiscuous corn can be made to behave — as long as you don’t expect perfection
Farmers have a slew of tools they can use to keep GMO grain separate from traditional crops. But none of them will deliver absolute, 100-percent results.
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In the FDA’s actions on trans fats, are there lessons for GMO labeling?
Trans fats have been an unlabeled part of the American diet until relatively recently -- a fact that makes a good case for the "precautionary approach" to new foods.
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Of monarchs and milkweeds: How one species’ pest is another’s repast
Monarch butterfly caterpillars eat only milkweed -- but milkweed is disappearing, thanks to the weed-killing chemicals that power Big Ag.
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Al Gore is a vegan now — and we think we know why
Hint: It has four legs and might be contributing as much to climate change as all our cars and trucks combined.
