By Institute for Responsible Technology LOS ANGELES — This week, the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) called on “Physicians to educate their patients, the medical community, and the public to avoid GM (genetically modified) foods when possible and provide educational materials concerning GM foods and health risks.” They called for a moratorium on GM… Read more »
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Protecting Organic from GMO’s – New Standards Proposed
Environmental News Network Ken Roseboro, The Organic and Non-GMO Report Baltimore, MD – A draft standard for verifying the non-GMO status of natural and organic foods was introduced at a meeting held at Natural Products Expo East in Baltimore in September. The Board members of the Non-GMO Project, an industry initiative to verify the non-GMO… Read more »
USDA’s “GMO Labeling Law” is a Farce
Cornucopia’s Take: The GMO labeling law crawled out of the swamp in time for Christmas. The USDA will allow QR codes instead of legitimate labeling and, for those who do choose to label clearly, the necessary language is the little-know phrase, “bioengineered food.” Soda and oils made from GMOs are exempt from any labeling. The… Read more »
Food Industry to Fire Preemptive GMO Strike
PoliticoPro By Jenny Hopkinson and Helena Bottemiller Evich The giants of the U.S. food industry who have spent millions fighting state-by-state efforts to mandate new labels for genetically modified organisms are taking a page from their opponents and pushing for a federal GMO law. But the Grocery Manufacturers Association, which represents such food and beverage… Read more »
Industry’s Secret Plan to Get the Feds to Kill GMO Labeling in Every State
Food Safety News By Michele Simon With the disappointing results now in from I-522, the initiative in Washington state that would have required labeling of genetically engineered food (aka, GMOs), the looming question is, what’s next? At least for the junk-food lobby, that answer in painfully clear: stop this state-level movement at any cost. In last Wednesday’s New… Read more »
Stop Making Us Guinea Pigs
The New York Times by Mark Bittman Source: Montecruz Foto The issues surrounding G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup, probably causes cancer in humans. Two… Read more »
Biotech Attack GMO Labeling in WA—Organic Brands Hide Behind Lobby Group
The Cornucopia Institute releases shopper’s guide: pro/con I-522 brands Proposition I-522, a citizen’s initiative on the ballot on November 5 in Washington state, would mandate clear labeling of genetically engineered (GE) ingredients on food packages. It has become the latest battleground pitting consumer and farmer advocates against multi-billion-dollar agribusiness corporations. Recent polling indicates strong support for… Read more »
Farmers Turn to GMO-Free Crops to Boost Income
The Des Moines Register by Christopher Doering Source: Fishhawk WASHINGTON –When Justin Dammann enters his southwestern Iowa cornfield this month, the 35-year-old farmer will sow something these 2,400 acres have not seen in more than a decade — plants grown without genetically modified seeds. The corn, which will head to a processor 20 miles down… Read more »
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 »
Dangerous Pesticides Showing Up More and More In Our Urine and Breast Milk
Farmers and consumers have been guinea pigs in a Big Ag experiment. AlterNet by Margot Ford McMillen In early April, the shocking news that breast milk carries many times the allowable amount of glyphosate, also called Roundup, came out on the web. Glyphosate is a poison that defoliates plants, but back in the late 1990s,… Read more »
