LAST September, the Philippine Court of Appeals affirmed an earlier decision (it rendered in May 2013) ordering the University of the Philippines Los Baños Foundation (UPLBFI), the University of the Philippines itself, UP Los Baños (UPLB), the Department of Agriculture (DA), and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) to “permanently cease and desist from further conducting BT Talong field trials.”

BT or Bt in “Bt (or BT) Talong” is not the abbreviation for “biotech.”