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Aynsley Genga is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Kenya. She reports from Nairobi. Where do I start? A lot has happened since the presidential elections back in August. Currently, Kenya is in a really sad state. Inflation is becoming too much for the public and poverty is steadily on the rise. Food is expensive, oil [...]

US District Judge Raag Singhal of the Southern District of Florida has dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Burger King fast-food chain of failing to disclose that the plant-based “Impossible Whopper” patty and regular beef patties are cooked on the same grill, using the same oils, resulting in vegetarian and vegan customers inadvertently consuming animal fats. [...]

A judge for the US District Court for the Northern District of California approved a 6.5 million dollar settlement agreement on Friday in a class action lawsuit against Chipotle over a misleading non-GMO advertising campaign. Plaintiffs accused Chipotle of false advertising for claiming that the food they serve is non-GMO. The Plaintiffs say this is [...]

The European Court of Justice  ruled  Wednesday that genome editing, a process when DNA in a living thing is altered, is a form of genetic engineering. A French agricultural union and eight environmental groups challenged a French policy that did not regard genome editing as a form of genetic engineering and sought to compel the French [...]

The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday that individual counties in Hawaii may not ban genetically engineered crops and pesticides . At issue for the court in this multi-year battle was...

US President Barack Obama signed Senate Bill No. 764 into law on Friday, which requires labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food products under a single national standard. The law requires the Department of Agriculture...

In a 63-30 vote, the US Senate approved legislation Thursday requiring food packaging to display genetically-modified organism (GMO) contents using words, pictures or scannable bar codes. If passed in the House , this law would...

Environmental groups filed a lawsuit on Thursday against the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) . The lawsuit challenged the FDA's authority to approve genetically modified animals for use as food. In November the FDA approved [WSJ...

States are having a difficult time passing proposed legislation requiring manufacturers to label products containing GMOs. There is an outcry from the food producing industry to stop the implementation of laws that require GMOs to be labeled. Manufacturers throughout...

Laws requiring the labeling of food products created from genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been an important topic of discussion to individuals in the health and food industry for nearly as long as GMOs have existed. However, despite the attention...