China's Genetically Altered Food Boom
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China is gearing up to dominate the genetically modified crop game. And the West is increasingly worried about monitoring these products around the globe
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China tightens food safety standards amid a string of scares over toothpaste, pet foods, and other goods.
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Take your pick: The widening adoption of genetically engineered crops by farmers around the world is reducing global pesticide use, increasing agricultural yields and bringing unprecedented prosperity and food security to millions of the world's poorest citizens. Or, it is fueling greater use of ...
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A conference on genetically-modified crops opens in Germany with calls for Europe to take up GM foods.
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With its performance in China, Yum! offers a significant opportunity for investors.
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A fluorescent green Chinese pig has given birth to two piglets which share their mother's transgenic characteristic after she mated with an ordinary pig, state media said.
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As genetically engineered agriculture takes off worldwide, the biggest growth in its popularity in 2007 came in the developing world, according to a report released Wednesday.
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03/11/2004 - The de-regulation of the China retail market is set to provide significant opportunities for international food retailers next year as restrictions that have limited foreign players to joint ventures in the major conurbations are lifted.
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Forget genetic engineering. The new idea is synthetic biology, an effort to rewire the genetic circuitry of living organisms.
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Culinary solution to Three Gorges Dam rodent disaster Residents downstream of China's controversial Three Gorges Dam in Hunan province have responded in traditional fashion to a plague of two billion rats forced into farmland by rising water levels - by offering them to restaurants in neighbouring Guangdong province, the home of "if it's edible, we'll eat it" Cantonese cuisine.â¦
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Breast cancer has risen sharply in  China's capital and its top financial centre during the last  decade due to unhealthy diets, a poor environment and increased  stress at work, state media reported on Tuesday.
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Food scares are the latest indications that cutting corners or producing fake goods is still woven into the fabric of Chinaâs economy.
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BINHU, China, July 14 -- It was early morning when an odd noise awoke Tao Qunxian, a farmer in this village on the banks of Dongting Lake in Hunan province. He looked out his front door to see his entire rice paddy had disappeared overnight. The culprit was a seasonal pest: the eastern field mous...
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Scientists in Singapore who have been striving to produce an edible SARS vaccine have made a breakthrough by using genetically-modified Lactobacillus to help lab mice acquire SARS antibodies.
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Asia is set to become the driving force  behind biotech crops in the next decade, despite hesitance by  China to commercialize GMO rice, a Chinese scientist and an  international body said on Monday.
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The global food business is gargantuan and growing fast.
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The number of obese people in China doubled to 60 million in the 10 years to 2002 with diseases related to an unhealthy diet and lifestyle also on the rise.