Prolonged Psychological Fear Based on Unfounded/Distorted Claims:

Genetically Modified (GM) Crops - a.k.a. Frankenfood Scare

Environmentalist Attack on Disaster Relief and Food Aid

• Biotech Food Politics: Zambia Revisited
• Africans Starve Rather than Accept Bounty of GM Corn
• Dr. Strangelunch
• Zambia Allows Its People To Eat
• NY Times’ Jane Brody: Benefits Of Biotech Crops
• Greenpeace—Poverty Be Damned
• Activism in the Time of Cholera
• Fear-Mongering Greens Doom Children to Death
• Haitian Farmers Commit to Burning Monsanto Hybrid Seeds (Environmental extremists attack Haitian earthquake disaster relief)
• Haitian ‘Social Justice’ Groups Want to Burn Aid
• The Right to Choose – for Farmers in Haiti
• Greenpeace's Crime Against Humanity

 

The Benefits of GM Food

• How to Fight Childhood Blindness
• Greenpeace Farming Plan Would Reap Environmental Havoc around the World
• Biotech Cottonseed Shows Promise to Alleviate Third World Hunger
• GM Crops A Viable Option For Food Crisis?
• GM Crops Saving Farm Economy from Drought
• Biotech Advances Are Making Foods Healthier
• We Can Feed the World
• Biotechnology A Key To Solving Food Crisis - US Says
• GM Wheat Yields Hope for Big Dry
• Biotech Wheat to Ease World Food Shortage
• Farmers Praise GM Crops in EU Study
• Yummy, The Anti-Cancer Modified Tomato
• Why Indian Farmers Lust after Genetically Modified Eggplant
• Potent Potato to Boost Food Security
• Future of GM Crops
• Prince Charles Promotes World Hunger
• Charles's Fantasy Farming Won't Feed Africa's Poor
• An Advocate for Science Diplomacy
• Farmers Using Biotech Seed May Pay Less Insurance
• Global Impact of Biotech Crops: Socio-Economic and Environmental Effects, 1996-2006
• The World Bank Now Agrees: We Need Another Green Revolution
• GM Licorice could help Stop Desertification
• GM Potato Blessing for Small Farmers: South African Group
• Farmers Embrace Genetically Modified Beets
• RSA okays GMO Sorghum Trials to Improve Nutrition in Africa
• Genetically Modified Crops 'Greener' Than Assumed
• Africa now Focuses on Biotechnology as Poor Yields Begin to Bite
• Toxicity-Resistant Crops
• Tropical Wastelands to Croplands with Biotech
• Michigan State University Scientists find New Gene that Helps Plants Beat the Heat
• Biotech Makes Eggplants Resistant to Devastating Insects
• Biotechnology "To The Maximum" to Avert Looming Sub-Saharn Food Crisis
• Foreign Visitors Hear Iowans Tout Biotech Crop Advantages
• Foodie Freak: Considering Genetically Modified Foods
• Agricultural Biotech a Critical Link to Sustainability around the Globe
• Carrots Genetically Engineered to Express Elevated Levels of Calcium
• Farmers can Breathe Easy as Salt-Tolerant Crops Arrive
• Gene-Altered Crops Gain Favor
• GM Crops 'Reduce Toxic Pesticide Use'
• Fighting Hunger with Flood-Tolerant Rice
• Agricultural Biotechnology's Contribution to Improving the Standard of Living of Farmers around the World
• The Green Monster: Could Frankenfoods be Good for the Environment?
• Increasing Africa's Grain Harvest
• Pioneer GM Canola Planter Ready For More
• Biotechnology: An Agriculture Success Story
• Scientists Develop Salt Tolerant Plants
• GM Crops Are Another Tool In The Struggle Against Poverty
• GM Crops could cut Costs and Methane
• Cassava Virus Dealt A Blow In Southern Africa
• Genetically Speaking
• Climate-Proof Food Plants Are Coming
• Mr. Green Genes
• Cloned Gene Used to Develop Aluminum Tolerant Crops
• Bt or not to be
• Green Thumbs: Genetically engineered crops are more environmentally friendly than organic ones
• Areawide Suppression of European Corn Borer with Bt Maize Reaps Savings to Non-Bt Maize Growers (the halo effect)
• Biotechnology: Rice at the forefront of research (Benefits of GM goes beyond food.)
• Biotech: To Survive the Mega-Droughts
• India’s growing malnutrition could be ameliorated by approving biotech crops and pesticides
• Golden rice holds key to alleviating vitamin A deficiency
• Saving potatoes, and starving people too — if permitted
• Bt cotton success in India: Reduced pesticide use, fewer poisonings and farmer suicides
• GM (Genetically Modified) benefits are plain to see
• Biotech (Bt) Cotton has benefited farmers, raised yield
• Hawaii's Biotech Papayas Hold a Lesson for America
• Genetically modified crops encourage beneficial bugs
• Genetically modified crops shrink farming's pesticide footprint
• USDA Approves Apples Genetically Engineered to Resist Browning
• Biotech crops help farm income rise $78 Billion
• Ireland's potatoes in GM trial spared from late blight infection
• GMO Crops Do Help Poor Farmers
• Will oranges go the way of the dodo?
• GMO rice to fight rotavirus
• Meta-analysis shows GM crops reduce pesticide use by 37 percent
• EPA/USDA strangled biopharming in its cradle
• New variety of GMO potato introduced by JR Simplot
• Golden Rice: An example of the potential benefits of genetic engineering technology
• Genetically modified crops: Field research
• How GMOs Offer Unexpected Salvation from a Potential Banana Apocalypse
• Are bananas going extinct?
• GE crops could save the planet, if Organic advocates let them
• By opposing Golden Rice, Greenpeace defies its own values – and harms children
• The ‘Gene Gun’ That Saved Hawaii
• Genetically Engineered Wheat Reduces Need For Fertilizer, Helps Environment
• Let Them Eat (GM) Bananas!
• Move Over, Golden Rice — Golden Potatoes Are On The Way!
• All I Want For Christmas Is Golden Rice
• GM Corn Is Better For You, Farmers, And The Environment. Who Knew?
• GMO Cassava Can Provide Iron, Zinc To Malnourished African Children

 

Activist Spreading Fear

• Divide Grows Between Biotech Reality and Activist Rhetoric
• Modern Activism 101
• Food Fetish
• Genetically Altered Foods are the Key to Feeding an Increasingly Hungry World
• Technology's Unworthy Adversaries
• Time to Stand Up to Anti-GM Thugs
• Some Still Can't Digest Idea of Biotech Food
• GM Corn Protest Based on Bio-Fraud
• Memo To Unbelievers: GM Crops Safe And Sound
• Bt Cotton: Why do so Many Smart People get it so Wrong?
• Biotech Food
• Activist Delusions, Stranger Than Fiction
• Greenpeace Funded GM Survey Backfires
• Hawaii’s Farmers Want the Right to Choose
• This Week In Science Fiction: The Biotech Files
• Germany: Biotech Opponents are Playing with Human Lives
• Green Fanatics vs. Genetic Science
• Why I Planted Genetically Modified Maize on My Welsh Farm
• Hawaii: We Must Not Squander Our Biotech Expertise
• BIO Debunks Myths in Anti-Biotech Report
• Article on GM Food not based on Fact
• Alfalfa Heats Up Biotech Debate
• Debate over GM Eggplant Consumes India
• Feeding the Propaganda of Anti-Technology Activists
• SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) lifts partial ban on GM alfalfa in Monsanto v Geertson Seed
• GM foods and pesticides pose no danger to health
• The right to know nothing
• The anti-GM food circus rolls through Connecticut
• Opinions on Genetic Engineering That Aren't Worth A Bean
• GM mislabeling on the California ballot
• Alarmists attack biotech in California — where else!
• Greenpeace misleads on ‘golden rice’
• On Biotech, Common Sense Speaks Louder than Pseudoscience
  • Corny scare tactics
  • GMO Opponents Are the Climate Skeptics of the Left
• ‘Grassroots’ support for Prop. 37 exposed
• The Roots Of The Anti-Genetic Engineering Movement? Follow The Money!
• Falling on a genetically modified sword
• There’s just no stopping anti-GMO agitators, apparently
• GM wheat found in Oregon: a real tempest in a teacup
• Monsanto suggests sabotage in genetically modified wheat case
• Lipstick on a Pig Study
• Hawaii takes hypocrisy to new level
• The tarnishing of Golden Rice
• Big Island, small minds: GMO ban on Hawaii flouts science and sense
• How do anti-GMO activists appeal to America’s mothers?
• The co-existence of organic and GMO foods
• When It Comes To Food, Do You Trust Science Or A Yogic Flying Instructor?
• The dark side of the anti-GMO movement
• The case for Golden Rice
• Can Greenpeace finally admit they’re wrong? The “Allow Golden Rice Now! Campaign” hopes so.
• Who's afraid of GMOs? Let's serve up science without scare stories and eat without fear
• Whole Foods’ Anti-GMO Swindle
• No excuses to be against science now: Monsanto patent expires
• Germany Rightly Skewered for GMO Nonsense
• 'March Against Monsanto' Is Now An Anti-Vaccine, Conspiracy Movement
• Cyberbullying: The Strategy To Destroy Scientists
• Putin’s ‘sock puppets’: How Russia ‘uses’ anti-GMO activists to undermine crop biotech and science
• 40 Years Ago, GMO Insulin Was Controversial Also
• Putin Is Mounting Sly, Self Serving Attacks On American Science
• Almost All Anti-GMO Articles In The US Are 'Clickbait' Promoted By Russian Propaganda Sites

 

The Science

• Peer Reviewed Publications on the Safety of GM Foods
• Transgenic Travesty
• Biotech Crops Good for the Environment
• With 2000+ global studies affirming safety, GM foods among most analyzed subjects in science
• Plant Biotechnology: Current and Potential Impact for Improving Pest Management in U.S. Agriculture
• 4,000+ Scientists Sign Petition Supporting Biotech
• The Benefits of Biotech
• Can Biotechnology Survive Bad Science, Media Hype, and Environmental Extremists?
• GM Food can Help Ease Hunger
• Have These People Never Been to a Farm to see What Weeds and Insects do to Crop Yields?
• Drought-Tolerant Wheat: 'Promising Results'
• GM Study Adds to Pressure on Brussels
• The War over GM is Back. Is the Truth any Clearer?
• Effects of Bt Corn and Cotton on Non-Target Insects
• Do GM Crops Increase Yield?
• Genetically Engineered Crops Benefit Many Farmers, but the Technology needs Proper Management to Remain Effective
• The USDA’s Anti-Science Activism
• Engineering Food for All
• Europe’s Biotech Food Ban Must End
• Assessment of the health impact of GM plant diets in long-term and multigenerational animal feeding trials: A literature review
• Fedoroff Letter to EPA raises serious concerns over EPA blundering -- Biofortified
• Major Scientific Conference Convened to Review The Safety Of GMO Crops
• Genetic Engineering: It's a Technology, not an Ideology
  • Studies for GENERA
• Something else to be thankful for: Retraction of a junk study
• GM food safety gains impressive support
• GMOs: A Plateful of Promises
• In a Face-to-Face GMO Debate, The “For” Side Wins
• NGOs are spreading lies about GMOs
• Informed Consent Mistake, Not Science, Trips Up ‘Golden Rice’ Research

 

Environmental Terrorism

• Threats To Biotech Food, French And Otherwise
• UK: Yes To Biotech, No To Scaremongers
• Canadian Anti-Biotech Fraud Goes To Court
• Lunatics Pledge To Sabotage Biotech Crops
• Greenpeace Invades Big Island, Chops Papaya Trees
• Starbucks
• Activists Destroy Three GM Fields in France
• Anti-Biotech, Techno-Illiterate
• Anti-Biotech "Crop Crushing" is the new Book-Burning
• Activist Gets Nearly 22 Years in Prison for Michigan State University Arson
• Strange Fruit: Could Genetically Modified Foods offer a Solution to the World's Food Crisis?
• While others strive to feed the world, Greenpeace and activists destroy field trials
• Anti-GM wheat protest thwarted by police
• Witless GM vandalism
• Genetically engineered sugar beets destroyed in southern Oregon
• The Case for Golden Rice
• Golden Rice Moves Closer to Reality in Asia

 

GM Food Taking Root

• In Lean Times, Biotech Grains are Less Taboo
• Food Crisis May Open Door to Genetically Modified Rice
• Science Supersizes Crops
• China Releases Biotech Rice, Bars Biofuel to Protect Food Supply
• Vietnam to Allow Genetically Modified Crops to Reduce Imports
• Burkina Faso Plants Bt Cotton
• Global Food Production's Olympic Moment
• Bt Cotton Pushes India's Farm Biotech Revenue up by 30%
• Bt Brinjal to go Commercial Next Year
• After Rain, Biotech Might Be a Farmer's Best Friend
• Danish Farmers to Grow GM Crops
• Vietnam to Plant Genetically Modified Corn Next Year
• More GM Crops being Grown across Europe
• Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) Lady turns Biotech Corn Farmer
• Certain Crops Require Genetic Modification: Scientists
• Bt Cotton Catches On In AP, Green Activists See Red
• Food Crunch Opens Doors to Bioengineered Crops
• Tortilla Chips going Biotech as Limits Change on Seeds
• Genetically Modified Hawaii
• World goes for GM Crops to Tackle Food Crisis
• Rainy-Day Rice
• Can GM Farming Avert Malthusian Doomsday of More People than Food?
• Consumers in Asia Ready for Benefits of Biotechnology Derived Foods
• India: GM Crops May Double Agricultural Growth Rate
• Biotech Crops Poised for Second Wave of Growth
• Global Biotech Plantings Rose by 9 Percent Last Year
• GM Crops - Thirteen Successful Years of Commercialization
• Expansion of Biotech Crop Plantings in 2008
• GM Crops Raising the Standard of Living
• Kenya Approves GM After Years of Delays
• Crops with Attitude: Poor Nations are now Starting to Shake off the Old 'Frankenfood' Taboo
• Feeding the Hungry
• European Union Clears Biotech Potato for Cultivation
• Taking Root
• GM Crops Increased 7% in 2009
• Drought tolerant GM wheat makes great progress in China
• BANGLADESH: Farmers Bet on Climate-Proof Crops
• Prominent anti-GMO activist changed his mind after learning the science
• Simplot genetically engineered potato gets USDA nod for deregulation
• For Biotech Crops Down Under, Logic Rules
• Cassava Crop Poised to Be Next GM Success
• Another Win For Golden Rice: Canadian Government Approves
• Science For The Win: Golden Rice Gets The Nod From FDA

 

Books

• Genetically Modified Crops by Nigel G. Halford
• The Frankenfood Myth by Henry I. Miller and Gregory Conko

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