Cornucopia reached out to Dr. Jennifer Tucker, the National Organic Program (NOP) Deputy Administrator, for further comment on the issues raised by Civil Eats, below. NOP Deputy Administrator Dr. Jennifer Tucker Source: USDA Tucker stated that she did not feel the context was illustrated well in the article. Her quotes came out of a discussion… Read more »
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Sri Lanka, Brazil, Chile, South Africa Move Against Monsanto
SustainableBusiness.com Like the cigarette companies, Monsanto continues to defend Roundup (Glyphosate) as safe to use, but accumulating scientific evidence shows it could be among the most dangerous products on earth. The world’s top selling herbicide is now implicated in a series of epidemics of fatal chronic kidney disease that’s affecting poor farming regions across the world,… Read more »
Organic Farming Grows, North Dakota No. 2 in the Nation
The Dickinson Press (North Dakota) (link no longer available) By: Betsy Simon Minus the lack of chemicals on his crops, life at Patrick Frank’s 1,200-acres of organic farmland north of South Heart mirrors that of any other farmer. “There’s not really a difference in what I do, except that when spring comes instead of just… Read more »
EPA Announces Plan to Require Disclosure of Secret Pesticide Ingredients
Environmental Health News By Marla Cone, Editor in Chief Reversing a decade-old decision, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it plans to require pesticide manufacturers to disclose to the public the inert ingredients in their products. An inert ingredient is anything added to a pesticide that does not kill or control a pest…. Read more »
Genetically Modified Crops Causing an Increased Use of Harmful Pesticides
Net News Publisher (link no longer available) A new report shows that planting genetically modified (GM) crops is causing an increased use of harmful pesticides in major biotech crop producing countries. The 2008 edition of the Friends of the Earth International “Who Benefits from GM crops?” report series is titled “The Rise in Pesticide Use” and… Read more »
New Herbicide and GE Seeds: EPA and USDA Poised to Approve Herbicide with Insufficiently Unexamined Cumulative and Long-Term Health Effects
The Pump Handle by Elizabeth Grossman Credit: NRCS If the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) give their approval to a new herbicide called Enlist Duo and to corn and soybean seeds genetically engineered (GE) to resist that chemical, the United States could see a significant increase in what is already one of the country’s most… Read more »
Monsanto’s Deception Game on GMO in Europe
RT.com By William Engdahl On May 31 world media headlines read “Monsanto backing away from GMO crops in Europe.” But before the world opens the champagne to celebrate the death of GMO, it is worthwhile to look more closely at what was officially said and what not. The original source for the story is attributed… Read more »
Balancing Environmentalism and Profits Works for Texas Farmers
High Plains Journal By Jennifer M. Latzke Jimmy and Susan Wedel don’t consider themselves “radical environmentalists.” “I’m not a radical environmentalist, I’m a reasonable environmentalist,” Jimmy Wedel said. It’s that “reasonable environmentalism” that has the Wedels farming 3,700 acres of organic crops–including forage corn–near the Texas-New Mexico border in the southern Texas Panhandle. A change… Read more »
WikiLeaks Cables Reveal U.S. Sought to Retaliate Against Europe over Monsanto GM Crops
Democracy Now JUAN GONZALEZ: U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks reveal the Bush administration drew up ways to retaliate against Europe for refusing to use genetically modified seeds. In 2007, then-US ambassador to France Craig Stapleton was concerned about France’s decision to ban cultivation of genetically modified corn produced by biotech giant Monsanto. He also… Read more »
Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
Independent Science News By Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years? In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has belatedly… Read more »
