Category: Media/News

Home/News/Media/News
October 2, 2012

PCC Joins Push for New Law Requiring GMO Labeling

The Seattle-based grocery chain said it will spend $100,000 to help collect signatures in support of legislative Initiative 522, which would require labeling in Washington ...

October 2, 2012

Pesticide Use Ramping Up as GMO Crop Technology Backfires: Study

Reuters By Carey Gillam (Reuters) – U.S. farmers are using more hazardous pesticides to fight weeds and insects due largely to heavy adoption of genetically ...

September 28, 2012

Fight Over Expanding Canola in Oregon Pits Organic Food Lovers Against Biofuels Advocates

Washington Post and AP SALEM, Ore. — Wet winters and cool, dry summers make Oregon’s Willamette Valley one of the best places on the globe ...

September 27, 2012

Poll Finds Prop. 37 is Likely to Pass

In USC Dornsife/L.A. Times poll, supporters of labeling for genetically engineered food outnumber foes 2 to 1. Los Angeles Times By Marc Lifsher By more ...

September 26, 2012

Russia Suspends Import and Use of American GM Corn After Study Revealed Cancer Risk

Mail Online By Sean Poulter The European Food Safety Authority orders review in to the research, conducted at a French university Russia’s decision could be ...

September 24, 2012

Scientists and Farmers Call for Action on Antibiotic Use in Animal Agriculture, Again. Will FDA and Congress Listen?

Keep Antibiotics Working 159 scientists and 50 farmers released statements today calling for strong action on the long-neglected issue of antibiotic use in animal agriculture. ...

September 23, 2012

Why the World Needs a Renaissance of Small Farming

The greed for profit is ruining agriculture – and the world – but the trend for local shops and farmers’ markets offers real hope The ...

September 21, 2012

Plenty at Stake in Farm Bill Standoff

North Country Public Radio by David Sommerstein Listen with NCPR Player Sep 20, 2012 — UPDATE: Thursday afternoon, the Wall Street Journal reports House Speaker ...

September 19, 2012

French Study Finds Tumours in Rats Fed GM Corn

Reuters London – Rats fed a lifetime diet of Monsanto’s genetically modified corn or exposed to its top-selling weedkiller Roundup suffered tumours and multiple organ ...

September 17, 2012

Monsanto, Pesticide Companies Contribute Another $5.5 Million to Kill GMO Labeling Initiative

Gnom.es National News Service (link no longer available) SACRAMENTO, Calif.- The following is being released by the California Right to Know campaign: Monsanto just gave ...

September 12, 2012

GM Crop Could Cause Liver Failure: Scientist

Sean Cowan, The West Australian A world-renowned scientist has warned that one of the CSIRO’s genetically modified wheat varieties has the potential to cause a ...

September 11, 2012

Stanford Organic Food Study: Amidst Pushback, Co-Author Acknowledges Limitations

Huffington Post Last week, a controversial study concluding that organic food has no real health benefit over conventionally grown food received a great deal of ...