I’ve eaten golden rice and I hope to eat it again—even though a group of judges here in the Philippines just banned its cultivation. The bad news came on April 17, when a court of appeals revoked a ...

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Greenpeace may be committed to "saving the whales," but it's happy to let poor children go blind and die. Their eyes tell their sad stories as ghostly white irises give way to vacant stares. We can ...

In my recent radio conversation with John Batchelor (CBS Eye on the World), we delved into the sad saga of Golden Rice — a revolutionary crop engineered to combat Vitamin A deficiency, a condition ...

China's health authorities are investigating allegations that genetically modified "golden rice" was tested on Chinese children as part of a joint China-U.S. research project, Reuters reported. The ...

South Asia sees no new GM crops this year, except Pakistan, amid regulatory confusion in India and Bangladesh.

LOS BANOS, Philippines (Reuters) - Some rice-producing nations may drop their reluctance to use genetically modified (GM) seeds in the next few years to help offset a crisis that has forced millions ...

Government scientists appear to have found an alternative to contentious genetically modified (GM) crops with the launch of two genome-edited varieties of rice—a key staple and export. The main ...

On May 4, 2025, India made history. The country introduced the first genome-edited rice to the world. At a grand event in the national capital, Union Agriculture Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan ...

I’ll admit—I’ve never quite understood the obsession surrounding genetically modified (GM) crops. To environmentalist opponents, GM foods are simply evil, an understudied, possibly harmful tool used ...

In this article, we will look into the 15 countries that produce the most genetically modified crops. If you want to skip our detailed analysis, you can go directly to the 5 Countries That Produce the ...