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GMO Answers website launched by biotech companies
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A new website has been launched, called GMOanswers.com, funded by the members of The Council for Biotechnology Information, which includes BASF, Bayer CropScience, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont, Monsanto and Syngenta, according to information on the website. The site is designed to be consumer-friendly, emblazoned with bright green accents and an easy-to-navigate forum. Under a tab titled Explore the Basics, website visitors can learn the timeline of genetic modification in crops, New Hope 360 reports.
Non-GMO advocates have demanded increased transparency for years. Still, there is no reason to rejoice. This website is a threat to the non-GMO movement for several reasons, according to New Hope 360. Though the information is technically correct, the syntax is off. For example, going back to the timeline, humans did begin crop domestication using selective breeding 10,000 years ago, but the graphic fails to mention that current GMO creation methods are vastly different.
Website users can explore how GMOs are made by watching a video. It uses Hawaiian papaya as an example for GE food. In the 1990s, a virus nearly wiped out the papaya crop. Genetic modification allowed researchers to make papaya resistant to the scourge and is credited with saving Hawaii's papaya production industry. But the video did not focus on herbicide-resistant soybeans, which account for 93% of all soybeans grown in the USA, and skyrocketing sales of glyphosate herbicides sold also by biotech companies. New Hope 360's full article is available here.
Non-GMO advocates have demanded increased transparency for years. Still, there is no reason to rejoice. This website is a threat to the non-GMO movement for several reasons, according to New Hope 360. Though the information is technically correct, the syntax is off. For example, going back to the timeline, humans did begin crop domestication using selective breeding 10,000 years ago, but the graphic fails to mention that current GMO creation methods are vastly different.
Website users can explore how GMOs are made by watching a video. It uses Hawaiian papaya as an example for GE food. In the 1990s, a virus nearly wiped out the papaya crop. Genetic modification allowed researchers to make papaya resistant to the scourge and is credited with saving Hawaii's papaya production industry. But the video did not focus on herbicide-resistant soybeans, which account for 93% of all soybeans grown in the USA, and skyrocketing sales of glyphosate herbicides sold also by biotech companies. New Hope 360's full article is available here.
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