Environmental Working Group by Emily Cassidy, Research Analyst Source: Lindsay Eyink At a hearing of the House Agriculture Committee this week, opponents of mandatory labeling of GMO foods trotted out the now familiar argument that genetically engineered crops are the key to feeding Earth’s mushrooming population. One witness was Professor Nina Fedoroff of Penn State… Read more »
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Unveiled: GMO Labeling Opponents Come Out of the Shadows
Natural/Organic Brands No Longer Hiding Behind Lobbying Organization The Cornucopia Institute releases shopper’s guide: pro/con I-522 brands Proposition I-522, a citizen’s initiative on the November 5 ballot in Washington state that would mandate clear labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients on food packages, has become the most expensive initiative campaign in the state’s history. The… Read more »
Public Hearing for New York State GMO Labeling Bill
New York State’s GMO Labeling Bill, A3525-A, is getting a public hearing on July 30, 2013. The New York state Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection will be holding the hearing. Testimony is by invitation only but anyone can attend, according to GMO Free NY. The Assembly committee is seeking information regarding scientific research… Read more »
Obesity, Corn, GMOs
Brattleboro.com Anthony Samsel If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered ( GE ) corn, corn based products and animals that are fed a diet of GE grain. Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies, carried out over a ten year period. The results show a positive link between… Read more »
The Shocking Difference Between Organic & Non-GMO Labels – It’s Huge!
Food Babe by Vani Hari One of the things I love to do every year is visit The Natural Products Expo, I go to both shows every year (west coast and east coast) to see the types of natural products food companies are creating and meet the founders behind them. Every year I see more… Read more »
Can GMOs Help End World Hunger?
Huffington Post by John Robbins Can genetically engineered foods help feed the hungry? Are anti-GMO activists and over-zealous environmentalists standing in the way of the hungry being fed? The hope that GMO foods might bring solutions to malnutrition and world hunger was never more dramatically illustrated than when Time magazine ran a cover story titled… Read more »
State of Fever: Monsanto’s GMO Policy Infecting All Levels of Government
By Will Fantle, Codirector From the Summer issue of The Cultivator From the USDA to foreign policy, Congress, state governments, elections and the courts, the feverish politics of genetically modified foods (GMOs) have infected decision making and dramatically tilted policies towards the desires of Monsanto and the Biotech industry. Candidate Barack Obama in 2008 promised… Read more »
European Study Concludes GMO-Organic Coexistence is a Sham
Cornucopia’s Take: The USDA insists that coexistence between GMO and organic crops is necessary, and they have provided guidance for organic farmers to lessen GMO contamination of their crops, effectively putting the onus on the victims of unwelcome DNA drift. There are crops (i.e. alfalfa) that have a pollination radius of five miles, making it… Read more »
Roberts Aims to Recruit Democratic Votes for GMO Pre-emption
Food & Environment Reporting Network by Chuck Abbott Pat Roberts (KS) Source: USDA To win Senate passage of his bill to pre-empt state GMO food-labeling laws, Agriculture Committee chairman Pat Roberts says he’ll need 60 votes — enough to quash a filibuster — and that means recruiting a substantial number of Democratic votes. “You have to… Read more »
Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
Independent Science News by Jonathan R. Latham, PhD cspB, from the Bacillus subtilis bacterium, inserted into the genome of corn plantsSource: BASF By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically Modified Organisms) as part of the research that led to my… Read more »
