Huffington Post By Homero Aridjis Homero Aridjis is a Mexican poet and environmental activist. His seminal work is “1492: The Life and Times of Juan Cabezón of Castile.” In 1985, he organized the Group of 100 — a group of prominent artists and writers, including Octavio Paz, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Rufino Tamayo — to… Read more »
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The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear
New York Times Sunday Review By Jim Robbins ON the first of November, when Mexicans celebrate a holiday called the Day of the Dead, some also celebrate the millions of monarch butterflies that, without fail, fly to the mountainous fir forests of central Mexico on that day. They are believed to be souls of the… Read more »
‘Seed Freedom is the Answer to Hunger and Malnutrition’
We must resist seed monopolies of corporates, they harm us all, writes biodiversity campaigner Vandana Shiva The Guardian What happens to the seed affects the web of life. When seed is living, regenerative and diverse, it feeds pollinators, soil organisms and animals – including humans. When seed is non-renewable, bred for chemicals, or genetically engineered… Read more »
Organic Soybean Shortage Squeezes U.S. Producers
Food companies, livestock industry look to other nations to supply needs The Des Moines Register (link no longer available) By Paula LaVigne, Staff Writer Before harvest, New Hampton organic farmer Tom Frantzen will cultivate and till his organic soybean acres at least four times to prevent weeds because he can’t use chemicals to keep his rows… Read more »
How California’s GM Food Referendum May Change What America Eats
The vast majority of Americans want genetically modified food labelled. If California passes November’s ballot, they could get it The Guardian (UK) by Richard Schiffman Last month, nearly 1m signatures were delivered to county registrars throughout California calling for a referendum on the labeling of genetically engineered foods. If the measure, “The Right to Know… Read more »
Unsafe at any Dose? Diagnosing Chemical Safety Failures, from DDT to BPA
[Cornucopia has re-posted this article for its sole merit, which does not imply endorsement of the author’s opinions expressed elsewhere.] Independent Science News by Jonathan Latham, PhD Source: Nerissa’s Ring Piecemeal, and at long last, chemical manufacturers have begun removing the endocrine-disrupting plastic bisphenol-A (BPA) from products they sell. Sunoco no longer sells BPA for products that… Read more »
Gene-Edited Food Coming to Your Grocery Store in 2019
Cornucopia’s Take: GMOs are created by splicing genes from one organisms into another, sometimes of different species. This process has brought us Roundup-ready feed crops and has resulted in a huge uptick in both pesticide use and pesticide-tolerant weeds. Gene-editing instead turns off existing genes in the organism or splices the existing genes in a… Read more »
Acreage for Genetically Modified Crops Declined in 2015
The New York Times by Andrew Pollack Source: Lindsay Eyink The world’s farmers have increased their use of genetically modified crops steadily and sharply since the technology became broadly commercialized in 1996. Not anymore. In 2015, for the first time, the acreage used for the crops declined, according to a nonprofit that tracks the plantings… Read more »
A Hole in the Regulation of GMOs that Kudzu Could Fit Through
Union of Concerned Scientists by Doug Gurian-Sherman A little-noticed, almost nonchalant, article in the Columbus Dispatch last week portends substantial environmental and economic mischief. The article notes that Scotts Company is going forward with plans to commercialize GMO Kentucky bluegrass. Mentioned in passing was that this grass, engineered for resistance to the herbicide glyphosate (AKA Roundup), is not… Read more »
The Monsanto Menace
The feds see no evil as a belligerent strongman seeks control of America’s food supply Village Voice By Chris Parker When you’re good at something, you want to leverage that. Monsanto‘s specialty is killing stuff. In the early years, the St. Louis biotech giant helped pioneer such leading chemicals as DDT, PCBs, and Agent Orange…. Read more »
