To label or not? That was on the California ballot during last year's US elections, owing to a push from food safety advocates to have genetically modified food advertised as such, as has been standard in Europe for years. Those lined up in favor of the food labeling initiative argued that the consumer has a right to know what they're eating. But in a counterattack , a coalition of agribusiness...

Received: 13 August 2013; accepted: 13 August 2013; published online: 20 August 2013. Citation: Frontiers in Genetics Editorial Office (2013) Retraction: GMO debate: inconclusive. Front. Genet. 4:169. doi: 10.3389/fgene. 2013.00169 This article was submitted to Plant Genetics and Genomics, a section of the journal Frontiers in Genetics. Copyright © 2013 Frontiers in Genetics Editorial Office. T...

This paper surveys the level and distribution of economic impacts of GMOs in the Americas from 1996–2004. Key institutional factors influencing GMO diffusion are discussed. In 2004 the Americas accounted for 94%, of world GMO area. Diffusion has been concentrated; four countries, four crops and two traits account for the vast majority of area. The economic benefits of the diffusion of GMOs have...

background and objective: over the recent years, genetically modified food in varieties of corn, soybeans, canola and cotton have been introduced to the global market. this study reviews the health and nutritional value of genetically modified foods in the past two decades. results and conclusions: contrary to the present biotechnological claims, transgenic products did not prove to be so flawl...

In his Foreword to my book Haldane’s Daedalus Revisited, Nobel laureate Joshua Lederberg (1995) correctly emphasized the difficulty of making accurate scientific predictions. Nevertheless, I agree with M. S. Swaminathan (2012) that the current concerns of biosafety will soon give way to an appreciation of the potential benefits of the new genetics including the GMO technology. I have reviewed t...

Purpose The current paper aims to explore how brand coolness can mediate the relationship between tactical green marketing orientation (GMO) and willingness pay (WTP), by exploring differences two global brands with opposite perceptions. Design/methodology/approach Based on stimuli-organism-response (S-O-R) framework, relation GMO, consumer's WTP is examined through a survey 272 participants, w...