Coalition Demands Probe on Dow & Monsanto GMOs & Pesticides

Digital Journal By Anne Sewell Farmers and food industry representatives are demanding a probe into the potential outcome of a new genetically modified crop in combination with the usage of the 2,4-D pesticide. Dow Chemical is currently awaiting the go-ahead from the U.S. government to start using a new genetically modified corn crop. This crop… Read more »

Scientific American By Holly Summers A series of graduate student conversations with leading women biologists, at the Women in Science Symposium at Cornell April 2-3. Prof. Pamela Ronald, a Professor in Plant Pathology at University of California, Davis and director of Grass Genetics at the Joint Bioenergy Institute, studies genes that control the plant response… Read more »

International Business Times By Ryan Villarreal Bioengineering agricultural giant Monsanto has touted the safety of genetically modified crops, but a new study has found that insecticide-containing corn can be harmful to the overall health of soil ecosystems. Genetically modified corn has been linked to a decrease in a subterranean fungus that forms a symbiotic bond… Read more »

PR Web Textile Exchange (TE) launches their sixth Farm & Fiber report giving an update on the organic production worldwide. Lubbock, TX — Momentum to seriously address sustainability issues within the textile industry is gaining traction at the brand level. While initial surveys from the 2011 Cotton Market Report indicate the clear majority of responding… Read more »

The Washington Post By Susan Freinkel In a study published last year in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, researchers put five San Francisco families on a three-day diet of food that hadn’t been in contact with plastic. When they compared urine samples before and after the diet, the scientists were stunned to see what a… Read more »

Pesticide Action Network Hats off to this mother of three who got fed up and took charge. Sofía Gatica challenged powerful corporate interests to protect her family and community from pesticides — and won. And now, the Argentine mother is one of six grassroots leaders from around the world being honored with the Goldman Environmental… Read more »

New research models real-world exposures to environmental cause of autism Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy By Katie Rojas-Jahn and Renee Dufault, FIHRI Minneapolis — The epidemic of autism in children in the United States may be linked to the typical American diet according to a new study published online in Clinical Epigenetics by Renee… Read more »

The Portland Press Herald (Maine) By Mechele Cooper, Staff Writer BELGRADE — Jonathan Dyer enjoys introducing visitors to the slithering creatures in his basement. The lower half of his home on Main Street in Belgrade Lakes is brightly lit with an array of bins, wooden boxes and tubs filled with, well, poop. It’s not just… Read more »

KSL Newsradio (Utah) By Stephen Singer, Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – Robert Burns, an organic farmer in eastern Connecticut, is candid in describing his business interest in state legislation requiring that genetically modified food be labeled. “If you’re an organic producer now, you should get ready for an increase in sales,” said the grower… Read more »

Huffington Post by Lynn Peeples An expectant mother’s exposure to commonly used pesticides might pose risks to her developing fetus comparable to those long associated with tobacco smoking, new research suggests. In both cases, a fetus exposed to such chemicals during a mother’s pregnancy might result in childbirth taking place a few days earlier and… Read more »