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GMO: It’s Time to Move On.

July 20, 2016Tim CanslerAgriculture, Food Safety, Govt NewsAgriculture, biotech, biotechnology, Food Safety, Genetically Modified, GMO, Lobbying, Lobbyist, Senate, Washington, Washington DC

Cansler Consulting Washnigton DC The House & Senate have approved GMO labeling legislation and the President will soon sign it into law. While a few legislators were unhappy, this compromise is in the best interest for the country. Republicans and lawmakers from rural states overwhelmingly supported the legislation. Agriculture groups have backed it, hoping it will bring more certainty to farmers who grow genetically modified crops. According to the US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, U.S. farmers have adopted genetically engineered (GE) crops widely since their commercial introduction in 1996.

About the GMO Legislation

USDA will have two years to write the rules of the new legislation, which will cover foods created with conventional recombinant DNA techniques. It will not extend to plants or other food products created with CRISPR, a new and more precise gene-editing technology. Foods that consist primarily of beef, poultry, pork or eggs will not be required to carry a GMO label, even if they ate feed containing GM corn or soybeans.

As The Hill noted, the initiative would force food companies to “create QR codes that consumers scan with a smartphone to find out if a product contains GMOs.” The aforementioned states require labels to identify goods “produced with genetic engineering.”…

Agri-Biotech Summit Nov 18-19

October 1, 2014Tim CanslerAgriculture, BioTechAgri-Biotech, agricultural, Agriculture, biotech, biotechnology, Food Safety, Lobbying, Lobbyist, McKimmon Conference Center, NC. North Carolina, NCSU, Raliegh, summit, Washington DC

Agriculture, biotech leaders to gather at NCSU for food ‘summit’

Food and agricultural experts from around the nation will join North Carolina peers at the McKimmon Conference Center in Raleigh Nov. 18 and 19 for a wide-ranging discussion of technologies and policies affecting food production.…

Taking the Scary Out of Biotech

September 4, 2014Tim CanslerAgriculture, BioTechAgriculture, biotech, biotechnology, botech, genetically modified organisms. food safety, GMO, Lobbying, Lobbyist, Washington, Washington DC

Dr. Cathleen Enright

If You Can’t Beat ‘Em…

The biotech industry has been taking a pounding on social media, but thinks it is successfully reaching some of its critics now. “GMO Answers,” the industry’s online Q&A forum, which launched a year ago, has fielded 750 questions and answered 650 of them, with the other 100 being reviewed by experts. BIO’s Cathy Enright, who heads the effort, also has been touring the country, giving more than 100 presentations and sit-downs with groups of all stripes.…

Cansler Consulting Opens Office in Gaithersburg, MD

August 3, 2014Tim CanslerCansler News, PressAgriculture, biotech, biotechnology, Cansler Consulting, Gaithersburg, Lobbying, Lobbyist, MD, MOntgomery County, new office, Washington, Washington DC

Cansler’s Gaithersburg Office

Gaithersburg, MD – Cansler Consulting has announced the opening of new headquarters in the cradle of agricultural, food, and science and technology industries in Maryland, just outside of Washington DC at 9711 Washingtonian Boulevard, Suite 550, Gaithersburg, MD 20878.

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Biotechnological Agriculture Helps Economy

May 15, 2014Tim CanslerAgriculture, BioTechAgriculture, biotech, biotechnology, crops, GMO, Lobbying, Lobbyist, Washington, Washington DC

Want to Help a Small Farm Prosper? Biotechnology in Agriculture

In 2013 more than 18 million farmers in 27 countries around the globe planted more than 175 million hectares (432 million acres) with scientifically improved seeds that produced high yields of food, feed and fiber. 90% of the those farmers (that’s over 16 Million farmers) who grow biotech crops are resource-poor with farms of less than 10 hectares (a hectare is just under 108,000 square feet or 2.47 acres). So a small farmer using modified seeds can increase crop yields as high as 53%.…

Are GMO Crops Really Safe?

May 9, 2014Tim CanslerAgriculture, BioTechAgriculture, biotech, biotechnology, Food Safety, genetically modified seeds, GMO, improved crops, Lobbying, Lobbyist, Washington, Washington DC

The answer is: YES.

Food from GMOs (genetically modified organisms, or bio-technologically modified crops) is digested into the body the same as any other type of food product including organic and/or non-GM crops. Hundreds and hundred of studies (and those ongoing) demonstrate that improved crops do not present any health risk. Before they reach the market, crops from GM seeds are studied extensively to make sure they are safe for people, animals and the environment. Today’s GM products are the most researched and tested agricultural products in history. Not only do they NOT cause new allergies or cancers, infertility, ADHD or any other diseases, but in the decades that farmers have been growing crops from GM seeds, there has not been a single documented instance of harm to human health resulting from genetic modifications, including new allergic reactions.…

Year 2050: 9 billion mouths to feed?

May 16, 2011Tim CanslerAgriculture, Industry NewsAgriculture, biotech, biotechnology, Lobbying, Lobbyist, Policy Changes, Washington, Washington DC

According to scientists, by the year 2050, the world population will be at about 9 BILLION people. Unless we adjust today’s agricultural and food production methods, this will mean that about 1 BILLION people on the planet will be starving and malnourished.

ANOTHER Population Boom!

In the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s there was a great deal of lip service given to the term “population boom”. Families reunited after World War II literally spawned the Baby Boomer generation. In the last five decades the world population has expanded from a few billion to nearly triple at 6.8 billion currently. Projections indicate that number will increase, adding another 2-6 billion in the next 4 decades.…