Cornucopia’s Take: The innocuously named industry think tank, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), has filed a Citizen Petition [PDF] with the FDA to request a prohibition on use of Non-GMO labeling on food. ITIF stops short of declaring all GMOs safe in their petition, but they do argue that there is no scientific difference between genetic… Read more »
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Anger as EU Ministers Give Green Light to GM-Contaminated Organic Food
Friends of the Earth has criticised the decision by EU Ministers to allow organic food to be contaminated with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). EU Agriculture Ministers, including the UK, have adopted a new law which allows organic food containing up to 0.9 percent of GM content to be classed – and labelled – as organic…. Read more »
OpEd: Ten Good Reasons Why GMOs Are Not Compatible With Organic Agriculture
Rodale Institute By Jim Riddle Despite fundamental differences in what they represent, there are occasional calls to allow the use of genetic engineering (which produces genetically modified organisms, known as GMOs) within the USDA National Organic Program. GMO varieties are currently most widespread in corn, soybean, canola and cotton crops, in dairy production, and in… Read more »
Claims Of GMO Yield Increases Don’t Hold Up
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 »
USDA Refuses to Regulate Gene Editing
Cornucopia’s Take: While President Obama considers signing the GMO labeling compromise, the newest GMO technique, gene editing, is escaping federal regulation. Cornucopia supports the precautionary principle: companies should prove the safety of their products before bringing them to market. Americans Are Buying Gene-Edited Food That’s Not Labeled GMO Bloomberg Technology by Craig Giammona and Jack Kaskey Source: Neil Howard… Read more »
GMOs Won’t Save the World – Sorry NY Times
Tucson Citizen (link is unavailable) by Kate Kaemerle But local, sustainable agriculture will. Here’s a piece from Anna Lappe on Grist.org taking on a NY Times editorial piece from a GMO drum-beater. They’ve had fifteen years to prove their point. Time’s up – ding, ding ding!
Golden Rice Flops
Cornucopia’s Take: Virtually all of the genetically modified cultivars commercially available provide different advantages to conventional farmers (like being able to spray a crop with herbicides, for weed control, that would otherwise kill the plant). Golden Rice was one of the few promises of GE food that would have some benefit to eaters. Evidently, it… Read more »
As Labeling Vote Looms, Inconvenient Truths Are Ignored
HuffPost by Carey Gillam Source: Donkey Hotey The U.S. Senate looks poised to vote this week on the contentious national debate over GMO labeling, but as the potentially landmark vote looms, facts that should be at the heart of the discussion are being lost. And in that void, the issue has become highly divisive, pitting… Read more »
GMO Food Labeling Law Pressure Mounts
The Des Moines Register by Christopher Doering WASHINGTON – Congress could face pressure to establish a uniform, nationwide law on the labeling of foods made with genetically modified ingredients as early as next year, as more states regulate the controversial technology found in much of the U.S. food supply. The debate over whether to label salad… Read more »
Pressure Mounts to Remove GMOs From Infant Formula
Abbott Laboratories Shareholders Set To Vote on Non-GMO Policy Cornucopia, WI – Shareholders of Abbott Laboratories will vote on whether the manufacturer of Similac, a leading brand of infant formula, should adopt a policy of sourcing ingredients that have not been genetically engineered. The vast majority of corn and soy-based ingredients in processed foods in… Read more »
