Hawaii Crop Improvement Association’s “Seeds of Promise”: Safety and Worldwide Acceptance

June 2, 2010 by biotechcheck.com · Leave a Comment

Biotech crops are among the most extensively tested and well-regulated food, feed and fiber products ever developed. In this last chapter of HCIA’s video, we emphasize that all commercial biotech crops are thoroughly assessed for human and animal health, as well as environmental safety. Without the proper evaluations and regulations in place, farmers would be not be permitted to grow and sell these products. What’s more, bioengineered crops–and the food and feed produced from them–have been found to be just as nutritious and safe as their conventionally grown counterparts.

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Tackling food security in Africa

May 28, 2010 by biotechcheck.com · Leave a Comment

Tackling food security in Africa
Jos Ngonyo, of the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition, believes farmers have something to teach multinational corporations

NOVA/Frontline Harvest of Fear 6/12

May 19, 2010 by biotechcheck.com · 1 Comment

In “Harvest of Fear,” FRONTLINE and NOVA explore the intensifying debate over genetically-modified (gm) food crops. Interviewing scientists, farmers, biotech and food industry representatives, government regulators, and critics of biotechnology, this two-hour report presents both sides of the debate, exploring the risks and benefits, the hopes and fears, of this new technology.