Michelle Perro, MD - GMOScience

Regulation of Genetically Engineered Foods

In the US, genetically engineered (GE) organisms are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the US Department of Agricultural (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Since the first commercialization of GE foods, the US National Academy of...

Do We Need GM Crops to Feed the World?

Environmental Toxins, Glyphosate, GMO, Pesticides, Regenerative Farming

This well-researched article examines the claim and validity of whether or not we need GM crops to feed the world.Read More

Dirty Money, Dirty Science

Environmental Toxins, Glyphosate, GMO, Pesticides, Regulations

The biotech industry’s web of attempts to buy credibility, by laundering its messages through supposedly independent academic scientists, is unraveling and beginning to reveal the influence of a huge amount of industry money on the independence of academic...

Rocky Road for Roundup

Environmental Toxins, Glyphosate, Pesticides, Regulations

It didn’t take much convincing to get Mike Pietzyk to try a new weed-killing product on one of his cornfields in southeastern Nebraska. “The days of going out and spraying Roundup twice a year—those are long gone,” says Pietzyk, a second-generation grower who has...

GM Foods: A Moment of Honesty

GMO, Nutrition, Parent Advice

So many have claimed that GE foods are perfectly safe, that the science is settled and only fools would deny this. However, professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies Glenn Davis Stone explains that precisely identical claims have been made before for...