Zeng Yawen’s outdoor laboratory in the terraced hills of southern China is a trove of genetic potential — rice that thrives in unusually cool temperatures, high altitudes or in dry soil rice rich in ...
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are living things that have had their genetic code artificially altered by scientists by inserting genetic code from another organism into their DNA. It's still a ...
The USDA committed legal error by exempting “highly processed foods,” such as sugar, from being labeled as “bioengineered,” according to federal appeals court ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service projects that by 2050, the total production of global agriculture will need to equal between 14,060–15,410 trillion crop calories based ...
The University of California opened its doors in 1869 with just 10 faculty members and 40 students. Today, the UC system has more than 300,000 students and 265,000 faculty and staff, with 2.5 million ...
In a major decision for food manufacturers and retailers, the Ninth Circuit recently struck down the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) exemption for highly refined foods under the National ...
Nine years ago, lawmakers thought they had settled the issue of GMO labeling. A law passed in the summer of 2016 after months of negotiation shut down state labeling requirements and gave companies a ...
On Oct. 31, 2025, the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion that will likely drive substantial changes to federal regulations governing label disclosures of bioengineered (BE) food. The court rejected the U ...
(Beyond Pesticides, December 17, 2025) In a 50-plus page opinion, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled in October for the plaintiffs on providing general public access to ...
For years, advocates of agricultural biotechnology have promised a future in which foods will be genetically engineered to give more nutrition and to prevent chronic diseases, in which crops will be ...
(Beyond Pesticides, April 10, 2026) An important study not previously covered in Daily News, “Use of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO)-Containing Food Products in Children,” raises serious concerns ...
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