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@gmopundit shared
On Mar 31, 2021
RT @prometheusgreen: How the Biden Administration Can Accelerate Prosperity by Fixing Agricultural-Biotech Regulations | @ITIFdc https://t.co/FrpTDavcLv
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How the Biden Administration Can Accelerate Prosperity by Fixing Agricultural-Biotech Regulations

How the Biden Administration Can Accelerate Prosperity by Fixing Agricultural-Biotech Regulations

The Biden administration has a rare opportunity to accelerate agricultural innovation and spur broad and lasting economic growth by taking a handful of discrete regulatory actions that ...

@kevinfolta shared
On Mar 31, 2021
RT @JonEntine: Podcast: This GMO 'almost' wiped out all life; Here comes AquaBounty salmon; Pregnancy, chemicals and junk science @camjenglish @kevinfolta https://t.co/lUrZYkpMdH
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Podcast: This GMO ‘almost’ wiped out all life; Here comes AquaBounty salmon; Pregnancy, chemicals and junk science

Podcast: This GMO ‘almost’ wiped out all life; Here comes AquaBounty salmon; Pregnancy, chemicals and junk science

id you hear about the genetically engineered microbe that almost wiped out all life? It got widespread attention in the late 1990s—though it never

@Camjenglish shared
On Mar 30, 2021
RT @JonEntine: Following its Brexit divorce from the EU, the UK has been forced to tackle an incendiary question: Should it abandon its stringent rules on the growing of genetically engineered crops that it has had in place? @camjenglish https://t.co/U2YVXfIDD0
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Anti-GMO groups struggle to preserve Europe’s stringent crop gene-editing rules in post-Brexit UK

Anti-GMO groups struggle to preserve Europe’s stringent crop gene-editing rules in post-Brexit UK

ollowing its political and economic divorce from the European Union, the UK has been forced to tackle an incendiary question: Should the country abandon

@prometheusgreen shared
On Mar 26, 2021
Humans, not animals, likely took the COVID virus to Wuhan, contrary to China's claims https://t.co/UoVbJYDhgT
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Humans, Not Animals, Likely Took the COVID Virus to Wuhan, Contrary to China's Claims

Humans, Not Animals, Likely Took the COVID Virus to Wuhan, Contrary to China's Claims

Scientists are searching for an animal or animals that could have carried the pandemic coronavirus from the bat caves of South China to the city of Wuhan. The animal that most closely fits ...

@CropLifeIntl shared
On Mar 26, 2021
RT @SeedFed: The global seed industry has come together to declare their engagement to deliver sustainable #foodsystems & to support achievement of the @UN #SDGs, while calling for more urgent public-private cooperation. Read the Declaration: https://t.co/ixIpgHTMIE @FoodSystems https://t.co/7Iafst929U
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that the world needs to shift its current patterns of food production and consumption in order to curb biodiversity loss and deforestation;

that the world needs to shift its current patterns of food production and consumption in order to curb biodiversity loss and deforestation;

Download the declaration in English, French or Spanish. Sign the Declaration here. INTRODUCTION We, the actors of the private seed sector, repre...

@JonEntine shared
On Mar 29, 2021
Using genome editing technologies in plants could help the EU ensure food security and reduce the impact of current agriculture practice on the climate https://t.co/v9234xMWUu
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EU should speed its adoption of CRISPR crops to keep up with global competition, officials say

EU should speed its adoption of CRISPR crops to keep up with global competition, officials say

Using genome editing technologies in plants could help the EU ensure food security and reduce the impact of current agriculture practice on the climate,

@pharminews shared
On Mar 31, 2021
Medios AG: Successful financial year 2020 https://t.co/CzOk4XMFWo #PharmaNews #ClinicalResearchNews #BiotechNews #LifeSciencesNews #MedicalNews #HealthcareNews #PharmiwebNews https://t.co/mbryhDQwZf
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Medios AG: Successful financial year 2020

Medios AG: Successful financial year 2020

DGAP-News: Medios AG / Key word(s): Annual Results/Forecast31.03.2021 / 07:43 The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.Press ReleaseMedios AG: Successful ...

@SuccessfulFarm shared
On Mar 30, 2021
The April 2020 launch of the Leading Harvest organization and its agricultural sustainability standard might seem like a case of terrible timing, especially considering that it took place during the frightening early stages of the #COVID-19 #pandemic. https://t.co/vKqspGZHiU
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Leading Harvest builds on its sustainability standard

Leading Harvest builds on its sustainability standard

This coalition of companies has created a comprehensive sustainability standard that can be implemented across the greatest portion of agricultural acreage possible.