People have lots of questions about GMOs. Here's an interesting question posed by Micky about lists of signatures against GMOs: Q: "Are these scientists all wrong, there are over 800 scientists who all believe GMOs are a bad idea. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/list.php How many…
Read More With scientists on both sides of the GMO debate, how can you know who’s wrong or right?
A reader at the GMO Answers website recently posed this question: QUESTION "I recently looked at an article that states the new genetically modified wheat can silence wheat genes and can match human genes. This is a little concerning to…
By David Tribe, University of Melbourne and Richard Roush, University of Melbourne Most readers are aware of the benefits of using vaccines to boost the immune system and prevent infectious disease. Many readers will not be aware of a very different disease prevention…
Read More For GM food and vaccinations, the panic virus is a deadly disease
(An earlier version of this post appeared at GMO Pundit blog.) Some people have raised worries about whether novel double-stranded RNA molecules present in plant foods might be harmful to people. Naturally occurring plants often produce novel double-stranded RNA molecules,…
By Sunanda Creagh, Reposted from The Conversation Researchers hoping to produce modified chickens hatched with in-built resistance to bird flu will conduct trials on live hens later this year, an Australian scientist said on Tuesday. CSIRO research scientist, Dr Tim…
Read More Silencing the bird flu gene: scientists prep live hen trials
[American business interests that are behind the current push for GM food labelling in California play a major part in this Australian story, reposted from The Conversation website.] By Richard Roush, University of Melbourne and David Tribe, University of…
Read More Calls for labelling GM food reveal attempts at market domination
A re-post of an article by Ashley Ng, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, Australia French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini caused quite a stir last week when he claimed he’d shown cancer in rats increased when they were fed genetically modified corn…
Read More Genetically modified corn and cancer – what does the evidence really say?
Humans have always faced tricky safety problems with food because we eat plants, which are the most ingenious pesticide chemists on the planet. Plants produce an amazing panoply of chemicals to deter animals from eating them. We’ve responded biologically to…
Read More Frankenfood or crops of the future? Gaps in the perception of GM food safety
By Richard Roush, University of Melbourne and David Tribe, University of Melbourne Recent news reports claim one in ten Australians believe the world will end on December 21, 2012, based largely on internet gossip about the meaning of ancient stone…
Read More Genetically modified crops shrink farming’s pesticide footprint
(Originally Posted at GMO Pundit Blog) Protest organisation Take the Flour Back (TTFB) and and others who support them are basing some of their claims about lack of safety of genetically modified food on a particular study by Canadian workers…
Read More An inconvenient truth being ignored by GM wheat protesters Take the Flour Back
