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 »
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Europe’s Big NO to Half Baked GMO Compromises
The Ecologist by Molly Scott Cato MEP Molly Scott Cato MEP Source: European Parliament Political groups in the European Parliament have sent a clear message to the Commission on its GMO proposals, writes Molly Scott Cato – we are not willing to have piecemeal and vaguely-defined ‘opt-out’ legislation forced down our throats. Last week something… 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 »
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 »
Measuring Biodiversity on Organic Farms
Legally Mandated, But Ignored [This article was previously published in the winter issue of The Cultivator, Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter.] by Linley Dixon, PhD Senior Scientist at The Cornucopia Institute Source: Adobe Stock Regardless of whether a farm is certified organic or not, when you step on a real organic farm, you know it. How? Biodiversity. While surprising… Read more »
Why Monsanto Will Never Rule the Food World
The Three-Prong Movement That’s Stopping the Beast in Its Tracks Nutiva by John W. Roulac [Originally published in Green Money Journal] John Roulac, Nutiva The issue of how we grow and process our food, while it’s always been important, is now a hot topic both at the kitchen table and on Wall Street. From the recent… Read more »
Round Three: Wendy’s Continues to Ignore Farmworkers’ Rights and Safety
Cornucopia’s Take: In 2013, Wendy’s refused to join the Fair Food Program to protect farmworkers in tomato fields from abuses and ensure they earn at least minimum wage. Wendy’s chose to begin buying tomatoes from Mexico, where human rights violations are as horrific or worse. Due to continued criticism, Wendy’s is moving its sourcing out… Read more »
Leading the GMO Food Fight
The Hill By Elise Viebeck According to Dave Murphy, the national movement to label genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, sprang to life in 2007 because of presidential candidate Barack Obama, the same man Murphy now criticizes as inactive on the issue. “It’s an incredibly heartbreaking failure,” said Murphy, the 45-year-old activist from Iowa, referring to… 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 »
