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Biotech Food & Agriculture Essentials publishes only the best Biotech news and links, carefully hand-picked and curated by top biotech experts.

Top news of the week: 16.10.2022.

#FoodHeroes
#NextGen
#CRISPR
#SIF2022
#Glyphosate
#SIF
#GeneEditing
#AgInnovation
#WorldFoodDay

@AgBioWorld shared
On Oct 12, 2022
King Charles’s reservations about GMOs are puzzling. They arise from a lack of perspective on pedigree. Does he exhibit royal disdain for the tangelo, a cross between a tangerine & grapefruit? Or the mutant peaches we call nectarines? ⁦@henryimiller⁩ https://t.co/jgmR2tfCNJ
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Viewpoint: King Charles’ resistance to crop biotechnology has been a royal pain. Can the former ‘Dunce of Wales’ shuck organic propaganda and...

Viewpoint: King Charles’ resistance to crop biotechnology has been a royal pain. Can the former ‘Dunce of Wales’ shuck organic propaganda and...

King Charles III has repeatedly demonstrated some of the pitfalls of the inbreeding that has plagued the royal families of Europe for centuries: noblesse oblige combined with a kind of ...

@AgBioWorld shared
On Oct 14, 2022
This is a scandal. A major news organization did not do even elementary fact-checking on an enormously consequential article, a massive failure of dozens of journalistic conventions about balance & objectivity. NBC News should be embarrassed and humiliated https://t.co/aeV0HXTBgh
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Viewpoint: NBC News’ ‘Glyphosate Disinformation Chronicle’ — Why the network should pull its error-riddled article on the ‘health dangers’ of the herbicide, and why accuracy in science journalism matters

Viewpoint: NBC News’ ‘Glyphosate Disinformation Chronicle’ — Why the network should pull its error-riddled article on the ‘health dangers’ of the herbicide, and why accuracy in science journalism matters

What happens when an online information resource leans into clickbait? It’s annoying but generally harmless entertainment. When it’s a resource that readers trust to tell it straight in ...

@GeneticLiteracy shared
On Oct 14, 2022
The traditional meat and poultry industries reacted strongly to Biden's executive order on biotechnology and biomanufacturing, which observers believe may push federal agencies to allow commercial sales of meat grown from an animal's cells. @BloombergLaw https://t.co/Zy4Oq661yt
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Slaughterless meat on cusp of reality? Cell-based steak, chicken and fish are all on the near horizon

Slaughterless meat on cusp of reality? Cell-based steak, chicken and fish are all on the near horizon

Companies creating lab-grown steak, chicken, and fish see a recent White House announcement as a signal that meat grown without animal slaughter is on the cusp of being legally sold and ...

@JonEntine shared
On Oct 14, 2022
Kenya approves GMOs after 10-year ban https://t.co/Yv4spnd53O via @GeneticLiteracy
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Kenya approves GMOs after 10-year ban

Kenya approves GMOs after 10-year ban

Kenya has approved genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and broken free from a decade-long ban on the technology, a move that could trigger a major shift towards evidence-based solutions ...

@CropLifeIntl shared
On Oct 14, 2022
As we get ready for the @FAO Science & Innovation Forum (#SIF) next week with our own side event today, we are proud to announce that our former policy intern, Tim Mulderrig, currently at @Cornell, is one of our #NextGen #FoodHeroes! https://t.co/25Mfy1eceK @FAOScienceChief https://t.co/BNIbE5zK66
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Timothy Mulderrig

Timothy Mulderrig

CropLife International is an association, based in Brussels, Belgium, which promotes agricultural technologies such as pesticides and plant biotechnology.

@CropLifeIntl shared
On Oct 11, 2022
.@OUnung is one of our #NextGen #FoodHeroes because of his work using #CRISPR technology to develop resistance to the tomato mosaic virus, one of the most common diseases affecting 🍅and other veggies. His work can help build more sustainable food systems. https://t.co/HjmOIynVdz https://t.co/AiwKnUTlaT
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Okon Odiong Unung

Okon Odiong Unung

CropLife International is an association, based in Brussels, Belgium, which promotes agricultural technologies such as pesticides and plant biotechnology.

@CropLifeIntl shared
On Oct 14, 2022
RT @FAOScienceChief: 📢NEXT WEEK Register your spot to discuss #GeneEditing in the context of agrifood systems, incl. its potential benefits, hazards, consequences & various barriers to adoption & diffusion. 🗓️21 Oct 2022 🕟09.00-10.45 CEST 👉https://t.co/Ayq1tcLZUe #AgInnovation #SIF2022 https://t.co/SCTWOzsQ7x
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Gene editing techniques and agrifood systems​

Gene editing techniques and agrifood systems​

Gene editing techniques and agrifood systems​

@WorldFoodPrize shared
On Oct 14, 2022
RT @PairwisePL: As we approach #WorldFoodDay and in the run up to the @WorldFoodPrize and #SIF2022 let's remember the role that technology and innovation- like #CRISPR - will play in building sustainable food systems. Read more by our co-founder and CEO Tom Adams https://t.co/YavhjOsc1E
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Opinion: Science, innovation and incentives will transform global diets and food systems

Opinion: Science, innovation and incentives will transform global diets and food systems

In this opinion piece, Tom Adams, Ph.D., of Pairwise discusses what technology can bring to the table to design future food systems that are better for people and the planet.