Sustainability: Conclusion or Prelude? Building the Future
Posted 5/2/07
The final installment of IFCNR's four-part series on Sustainability. [more...]

Sustainability Part 3: Of Africa and Island Nations
Posted 4/13/07
The third in IFCNR's series on Sustainability. [more...]

Sustainability Part 2: What is it?
Posted 4/10/07
The second in the series on IFCNR's views on sustainability. [more...]

Sustainability: Who Defines the Terms?
Posted 4/3/07
Sustaniability has finally become a concept more and more commonplace among global traders. In this series IFCNR looks at the pros, the cons, the pitfalls. [more...]

High Priced Organics or Feeding Everyone: Must We Choose?
Posted 6/14/06
IFCNR looks at the high cost of organic foods and wonders aloud why their must be a fight or even debate over what we eat. [more...]

A FEW POINTS THE FINANCIAL TIMES MIGHT EXAMINE MORE CLOSELY
Posted 2/3/06
A bit of institutional history makes a more complete appreciation of the depth and motivation of the NGO war against human nutrition and health. [more...]

Snow Crab: Hot Commodity/Hotter Political Weapon?
Posted 7/18/05
Some ask how a food item can become a political weapon. Here's how. [more...]

WHILE GREENPEACE PROTESTS, FARMERS OPT FOR GM CROPS
Posted 5/11/05
On May 8th, agricultural analysts say the one billionth acre of farmland was planted with GMO seeds. That is high tribute to the men and women of science working to improve the world food supply via genetic research. [more...]

Careless Science Costs Lives
Posted 2/22/05
This is a must-read article by Britain's Lord Taverne. [more...]

World Health Officials See Bird Flu Inevitable Human Pandemic
Posted 11/30/04
Health officials at WHO, FAO and OIE are warning nations to prepare for the predicted worldwide spread of a mutated Bird Flu strain lethal to humans. [more...]

The Food Industry's Challenge: Brand Loyalty or Credibility
Posted 5/13/04
As NGOs focus more on the global food supply and suppliers, food industry sectors need a new strategy for success. [more...]

Farm Aid: Is it Anti-family Farms or Just Another NGO Front?
Posted 4/13/04
Willie Nelson is an icon to American farmers. Rancher Trent Loos raises question about his group, Farm Aid, and where it's true allegiance lies. [more...]

PEW PCB Study Reveals NGO Strategies for 2004 & Beyond
Posted 1/28/04
The PEW-financed study of "toxic" substances in farmed salmon is a preview of the racheting up of NGO campaigns against all natural resource reliant industries. [more...]

2004: Year of Rice - A Year of Promise or Problems?
Posted 12/3/03
Agricultural biotechnology may reap the benefits of its good works or face a renewed attack by critics during the International Year of Rice. [more...]

Organic Marketing: Political Advertising in Lamb's Clothing
Posted 11/12/03
The organic food industry has allied itself with very negative surrogate marketing from so-called "environmental" NGOs. [more...]

Of Princes, Prophets, Preserving the Earth & Feeding the Hungry
Posted 10/23/03
Feed the hungry, that's the command. How humankind does it is another question. [more...]

WTO Meetings Collapse over Power Tug-of-War
Posted 9/15/03
Non-trade interests are the victor in failure of WTO to create global trade agreement. [more...]

CBD TREATY CALLED “DISASTER” & “NIGHTMARE” TO SCIENCE
Posted 9/12/03
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) was heralded as a way to insure 3rd World participation in conservation and use of local resources. It's become quite the opposite to research scientists. [more...]

Genetic Research & Religion Are Not Mutually Exclusive
Posted 8/29/03
The Vatican is set to announce its endorsement of genetically enhanced foods. No one should be surprised. [more...]

IFCNR to Attend 19th CITES Animals Committee Meetings
Posted 7/4/03
An explanation of the importance of IFCNR's presence at CITES/FAO. [more...]

AFRICAN/WORLD POOR PAWNS IN INTERCONTINENTAL GMO CLASH OF WORDS
Posted 6/26/03
It's time nations quit fighting over GMOs and start helping to feed the hungry. [more...]

Tomorrow Pork! The Day After...Everything Else.
Posted 6/13/03
News Analysis! What's in store for biotech agriculture is demonstrated by the current NGO campaign against U.S. pork. [more...]

NGOs LAUNCH FARM CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Posted 5/29/03
Yet another "eco/humane care" certification group has been cloned by animal rights groups. [more...]

DEBATE OVER GM "FOOD FIGHT" AT WTO SPARKS INTERESTING CONCEPTS
Posted 5/16/03
One very important consequence of taking the issue of the EU's closed markets to genetically enhanced foods and medicines is the global debate over the issue. [more...]

EUROPEAN BIOTECH FEARS SHUTTING DOORS ON SCIENCE
Posted 5/5/03
Europe's (and the world's) scientific community underestimates the power of anti-biotech advocacy. [more...]

AUSSIES OK GM CANOLA/BRAZIL SELLS GM SOY/ EUCONFIDENCE LAGGNG
Posted 4/4/03
Europe remains steadfast in its objections to biotech agricutlure while the world grows, sells and consumes increasing amounts of GM foods. [more...]

WHO ARE THESE FARM AND GRASSROOTS GROUPS OPPOSING GM WHEAT?
Posted 3/17/03
News accounts of farmers opposing biotech wheat trials are not quite accurate. The correct description, rather than "farmers," is the grassroots front groups of national NGOs are opposing GM wheat trials. [more...]

EPA’s Methymercury Report: Lawyers, Liability & Politics
Posted 2/27/03
The present controversy over the health effects of methyl mercury ingested from fresh seafood demands facts not fantasy. [more...]

Proposition 65 Action Against Grocers: a Case of NGO Ingenuity
Posted 1/24/03
California's Proposition 65 is a case in point about the long range planning and strategic effects NGOs are putting in place to make "use" groups pay. [more...]

Roundup Weed Resistence: The Rest of the Story
Posted 1/17/03
When the New York Times announced that Roundup herbicide was losing its potency, some saw that as an omen that Monsanto is heading for hard times. Here's the rest of the story. [more...]

Debate over GM Crops Ignores Mendel, History, and Children
Posted 1/15/03
Claims by biotech critics that no data exists regarding the safety of biotech crops is becoming increasingly frustrating and dangeous. [more...]

U.S. Trade Rep. Zoellick Says U.S. should Take the EU to the WTO
Posted 1/10/03
After years of trying to persuade the European Union market to withdraw its barracade against genetically modified products, a frustrated U.S. Trade Representative issued a demand that the U.S. take the EU to the WTO. [more...]

GM Potatoes Put Anti-Biotech Critics on Defensive
Posted 1/3/03
NGO biotech critics are taking a noticably low-key approach to India's new GMO potato. [more...]

In IFCNR's Opinion: Monsanto's CEO is Latest NGO Victim
Posted 12/20/02
The old adage that no good deed goes unpunished seems to apply to the recent departure of Monsanto CEO Hendrik Verfaillie. [more...]

Pharma Crops: Hope, Hatred & "Messages"
Posted 12/12/02
With a variety of pharmaceuticals derived from genetically altered crops ready for clinical trials, scientists are facing increasing protests by anti-NGOs. [more...]

CITES Set to Target Major Commercial Industries
Posted 12/2/02
CITES promises to impose its regulatory will over every industry trading in or affecting threatened or endangered species. [more...]

Reports from CITES - CoP12 Conclusion
Posted 11/19/02
Commercial sustainable use interests from every sector do not appreciate the magnitude of the losses they suffered at CoP12. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 8
Posted 11/15/02
CITES CoP12 marks a course change from a focus on terrestrial to marine species. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 7
Posted 11/14/02
The final decisions will be made by the Plenary at CITES CoP12 between today and tomorrow. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 6
Posted 11/13/02
Take a close look to see how biotech crops and endangered species are entwined at the international level. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 5
Posted 11/12/02
CoP12's final Plenary is in sight as the last days of committee meetings focus on key measures. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 4
Posted 11/11/02
Part of the reason developing nations resent the U.S. can be seen in the imperious behavior of its delegation to CoP12. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 3
Posted 11/8/02
Biotechnology interests took a solid hit during the 5th day of deliberations in Santiago. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 2
Posted 11/7/02
CITES Secretary General is asserting his vision on the direction the convention should take. [more...]

Reports from CITES - No. 1
Posted 11/5/02
Summaries of the actions and decisions made at the 12th Conference of the Parties to CITES in Santiago, Chile 3-15 November. [more...]

How CITES' Species Proposals Affect Biotech/Pro-Use Issues
Posted 10/28/02
The species proposals slated for debate at CITES' CoP12 have direct bearing on sustainable use issues from biotech to fisheries, etc. [more...]

NEW SCIENTIST Calls for Global Cooperation, Not Name-calling
Posted 10/7/02
NGOs need to shun antagonistic rhetoric and adopt a sense of cooperation. [more...]

UN Official to Africa: GM Food is Safe!
Posted 9/20/02
The executive director of the UN World Food Program calls for an end to the "irrational" blockade of GM food lest millions of Africans starve needlessly. [more...]

Real Winners & Potential Losers at the World Summit
Posted 9/5/02
IFCNR's analysis of the importance of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). [more...]

Canadians See Hope Where NGOs See Cash: Agriculture
Posted 8/29/02
Canadian farmers are looking to emulate U.S. operations at the same time NGOs are opening campaigns against U.S. farmers and farm researchers. Why? [more...]

"Fair Coffee" Buzz Shows Eco-label, Anti-GMO Ties
Posted 8/7/02
The NGO players behind the campaign to discredit biotech enhanced agriculture are key players in the eco-label movement. [more...]

What Price Science by Stephen S. Boynton, President
Posted 8/2/02
A letter from IFCNR's President seeking common sense to a tragic situation in Africa. [more...]

Methyl Mercury: FDA Hold Firm Vs NGOs on Tuna
Posted 7/29/02
Seafood contains Methyl Mercury. Despite NGO claims, toxins at natural levels in seafood is not necessarily "toxic" research suggests. [more...]

Cloned Cells Not Rejected: A Step Closer to Earth Summit's Goals
Posted 6/4/02
With the breakthrough in transplanting cloned cells with no rejection, biotechnology is taking us one step closer to the goals of the Earth Summit on Sustainable Development. [more...]

Biotech Crops are Gaining a Solid Foothold Among Farmers
Posted 5/2/02
The world's farmers are seeing first hand the benefits of GMO crop varieties. [more...]

Subsaharan Africa is Why Biotech Crops are Vitally Needed
Posted 4/26/02
The UN World Food Programme predicts wholesale starvation and death throughout Africa's subsaharan region due to lack of food. Still anti-GM critics persist in blocking advances that could save lives. [more...]

Therapeutic Cloning: the Flaw in the Debate
Posted 4/22/02
Therapeutic cloning should not be a political issue. There exists a solution to meet the needs of science and molify the fears of critics. [more...]

How to Win the GMO Argument - By Dick Monroe
Posted 2/25/02
“How Can Anybody Possibly Be Against Good Science?” or How To Win The GMO Argument A Special Report by Dick Monroe Chairman, IFCNR Fisheries Committee [more...]

U.S. & German "Consumer" Official Spar at WTO Over GMO Issues
Posted 1/7/02
European resistance to biotech is an impediment to good science, economic revival and progress is the message the U.S. took to Scotlant. [more...]

A Message from IFCNR's President the Coming Year
Posted 1/3/02
A Message from IFCNR President Stephen S. Boynton on Hope for the Earth and the Hungry This New Year [more...]

US Envoy Seeks End to EU Impasse on GM Foods
Posted 12/14/01
The patience of the United States has grown thin waiting for European Union nations to stop blocking imports of GM foods. [more...]

Standard GMO Crop Tests Could Dump Biotech Resistance
Posted 12/7/01
A worldwide effort to produce a set of standardized tests for GMO presence is seen as key to reducing resistance to biotech enhanced foods worldwide. [more...]

Food Scientists Call for More Biotech Crops
Posted 12/7/01
Scientists concerned with the state of the world food supply and the affect of increased agriculture on the environment call for more, not less agricultural biotech crops. [more...]

Trader Joe's Defenseless Against Greenpeace
Posted 11/19/01
Trader Joe's was humiliated by Greenpeace because it faced the NGO assault alone. Biotech must have its own Advocacy strategies or toss in the towel. [more...]

Hunger Fighting Options: Better Yields or More Land Plowed Under
Posted 11/13/01
Norman Borlaug wants people to face facts when talking about fighting world hunger. [more...]

Pesticides Linked to Chinese Suicide Rate
Posted 11/1/01
Approximately 120,000 Chinese use pesticides to commit suicide yearly. Biotech researchers are not only working to eliminate the use of pesticides but also to relieve conditions that lead to hopelessness. [more...]

Playing the Consumer Trust Card
Posted 10/26/01
The Pew Initiative says U.S. farmers are squaring off with European Consumers over GM foods. But are they? [more...]

European Union: GM Crops Safer Than Conventional
Posted 10/12/01
The European Union's research branch has released a report on 15 years of research into biotechnology that says the stringent standards applied to biotech crops makes them safer than conventional. [more...]

US Asks China to Open Market for Soybeans
Posted 10/4/01
Delays in new orders for U.S. soybeans have US farmers/government worried over China's import policies. [more...]

IFCNR Comments to EPA on Bt Corn
Posted 9/20/01
IFCNR submitted the following comments to EPA on the environmental impact of Bt corn. [more...]

Humanity Under Attack
Posted 9/17/01
An eloquent reflection by a Canadian NGO [more...]

Anti-trade/biotech NGOs Torn over Terror's Barbarism
Posted 9/17/01
The terrible death and destruction that hit New York, Washington DC, and rural Pennsylvania has extreme anti-trade and anti-biotech groups upset...perhaps for the wrong reasons. [more...]

Yeast Researcher Demonstrates the "Precautionary Principle" Flaw
Posted 9/11/01
Geneticist Leland Hartwell is being honored for his life's work seeking answer's to cancer's uncontrollable cell division. Equally important is his life as a symbol of why the Precautionary Principle should be applied with great precaution. [more...]

Reflecting on the Hearts & Minds of School Children
Posted 9/5/01
Oregon high school science teacher, John Borowski is appalled at corporate efforts to provide materials on agricultural biotechnology to schools. Is he right to worry? [more...]