Technology Review by Antonio Regalado Deep inside its labs, Monsanto is learning how to modify crops by spraying them with RNA rather than tinkering with their genes. The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through 10 square centimeters of leaf a day, and left unchecked it will strip a plant… Read more »
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The New Frontier: Genetically Modified Oil Wars
GMO Journal Consumer Beware: the next generation of biotech crops focus directly on you. Unlike most of GM crops currently on the market, which are genetically altered to be herbicide and pesticide resistant, the new generation of GM crops are designed to express alleged nutritional benefits. Focusing on soybean oil — the fastest way to… Read more »
Just Label It! So We Know When it’s GMO
The Huffington Post Green by Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author I demand organic. It’s that simple. I know, you’re thinking, “Of course you demand organic. You wrote the Organic Manifesto and grew up on an organic farm.” True, but, even if I didn’t, I would demand organic and so… Read more »
Top 10 Most Common GMO Foods
[Note: The use of GMO inputs is expressly prohibited in organic food and agriculture.] EatDrinkBetter.com By Chris Keenan Genetically modified organisms, such as plants and livestock are already found in our supermarkets. GM plants are much more common than many people realize too. Here is a list of the 10 most common GMO foods so… Read more »
France Bans Monsanto GM Maize Ahead of Sowing Season
Reuters Credit: Hanno Böck (Reuters) – France’s agriculture ministry on Saturday banned the sale, use and cultivation of Monsanto’s MON 810 genetically modified maize, the only variety currently authorised in the European Union. The French government, which maintains that GM crops present environmental risks, has been trying to institute a new ban on GM maize… Read more »
Farmers to Monsanto: Save Our Seeds
Crosscut (Seattle, WA) By Amy Pennington Eastern Washington farmers are increasingly worried about agricultural invasion from Monsanto’s unwanted genetically modified and patent-protected seeds, which can threaten a farm’s organic status and land them in court. Now a national coalition of independent farmers is fighting back. Lazy R Ranch sits just outside of Spokane and raises… Read more »
3 Ways the Media Protects GMOs
How “fair and balanced” journalism drops the ball on GMO coverage. Rodale News by Julia Westbrook Source: Johannes Jansson As the political, economic, and environmental debates over GMOs continue, it’s easy to forget that there’s another key player: the media. From the Today show toThe New York Times, including Rodale News, media outlets play a critical role in bringing… Read more »
Blowing in the Wind
Dealing With Roundup Herbicide Drift This article first appeared in the newsletter of the Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance. by Eric Herm Credit: USDA As an organic and non-GMO cotton farmer, I wake up each and every morning to an uneasy notion: We are surrounded and heavily outnumbered. Roundup Ready cotton crops encircle most of… Read more »
GMO Companies May Soon Regulate Themselves: Comment by August 6
New rules put agriculture and the public at risk [This action alert is over.] The USDA has recently proposed a set of rules that would allow chemical companies such as Dow and Bayer/Monsanto to determine the safety of their own products. The proposed rules, now open for public comment, would further deregulate an untrustworthy industry…. Read more »
Pull GMOs Out of Similac? Shareholders Vote No
Shareholders of Abbott Laboratories voted April 26 on whether the company should adopt a non-GMO policy for its products, which include one of the nation’s leading infant formula brands, Similac. In the week prior to the vote, The Cornucopia Institute initiated a petition drive, in support of As You Sow, the shareholder activism group that… Read more »
