Local Man's GMO Creation Saved Isles' Papaya Industry
HONOLULU STAR-ADVERTISER \ July 28, 2015 / In 1998, Kohala scientist Dennis Gonsalves created a vaccine-like cure to save Hawaii’s papaya industry from the ringspot vir ...
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No One Is Denying a ‘Right to Know What’s in My Food’
THE ATLANTIC \ July 24, 2015 / The fallacy at the heart of the right to know movement is that it oversimplifies the complexity of genetic modifications to food. Visit h ...
Call Off the Bee-pocalypse: US Colonies Hit a 20-Year High
THE WASHINGTON POST \ July 23, 2015 / Due to pressures of colony collapse disorder, the beekeeping market responded quickly and effectively to cause bee populations to reb ...
How Pesticides Help Keep Hawaii Paradise
THE GARDEN ISLAND \ July 22, 2015 / HCIA's executive director explains the rigorous registration regime for pesticides and how, despite activist rhetoric, Hawaii's seed co ...
Prospects of Approving GMO Salmon and Rescuing Embattled Banana
GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, TALKING BIOTECH WITH KEVIN FOLTA \ July 19, 2015 / Professor Kevin Folta discusses the challenges faced by the producers of salmon engineered to ...
Are GMOs Safe? Yes. And the Case Against Them is Full of Fraud, Lies, & Errors.
SLATE \ July 15, 2015 / A systematic takedown of the causes for GMO opposition, obstruction and labeling, which are deeply dishonest and causing society more harm than the ...
Was Bill Nye Paid by Monsanto to Change His Mind on GMOs?
ECOWATCH \ July 14, 2015 / Bill Nye, the Science Guy, explains why he moved from anti- to pro-GMO in this podcast, concluding that "genetically modified food has no effect ...
Could Big Island Feed All the People Using Traditional Methods?
HAMAKUA SPRINGS \ July 12, 2015 / Claims that Hawaii should return to traditional Hawaiian agriculture ignore the vast changes in labor, land use, politics and willingness ...
Should Companies Be Required to Label Genetically Modified Foods?
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL \ July 12, 2015 / Andrew Kimbrell of the Center for Food Safety makes the case in favor of GMO labels and the right to know; Dr. Nina Fedoroff, Pug ...
Pesticide Residue in Food No Danger to Consumers
REAL CLEAR SCIENCE \ July 11, 2015 / Data from 2,240 food items collected between 2004 and 2005 shows that any pesticide residues on American food do not remotely approach ...
The Chamber View: Efforts to Stop Cane Burning Unbalanced
MAUI NEWS \ July 10, 2015 / The President of the Maui Chamber of Commerce calls out the unbalanced reporting on the cane burning issue, which amplifies false complaints an ...
Scientist Pinpoint Gene for Better Rice
PHYS.ORG / July, 8, 2015 / By crossing rice varieties, Chinese researchers discovered mutations in a gene that improved both yield and quality. Visit http://phys.org/n ...
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