Aurora Organic Dairy is supporting efforts to defeat GMO labeling laws through its membership in the GMA Organic Consumers Association FINLAND, MN – The Organic Consumers Association today called on Aurora Organic Dairy to immediately withdraw from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), a trade association that has contributed more than $2.2 million to defeat I-522,… Read more »
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After Vermont Passes GMO Labeling Law, Food Industry Announces Plans To Sue
Huff Post by Dave Gram MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — As hundreds cheered, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a law Thursday that puts Vermont on the path to be the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods and promptly announced an online fundraiser to battle expected legal challenges from the food industry. The Vermont law… Read more »
Two States Ready to Fight for GMO Labeling in November While Industry Pushes Bill to Remove State Rights
Mercola.com by Dr. Mercola Credit: NRCS The pesticide and junk food industries continue to cause harm, even deaths, while destroying our rights and indemnifying themselves from liability. That’s the take-home message from the September 8 article in The Progressive,1 which recounts the travails of residents in Cedar Valley, Oregon. It’s also the take-home message of other related… Read more »
Open Source Seeds Licensed in Germany
Cornucopia’s Take: Seed patents have made it increasingly difficult for plant breeders to find traits that are not the intellectual property of someone else. German plant breeders have become the first in the world to receive open source licenses on seeds to ensure breeding rights remain in the public commons. German breeders develop ‘open-source’ plant… Read more »
Another Score For Organically Grown Veggies
The Washington Post by Barbara Damrosch Amy’s Organic Garden Image Credit: USDA Watching the studies come out about the merits or demerits of organics is a little like watching World Cup soccer. A large study done at Stanford in 2012 claimed organic food to be no more nutritious than chemically grown. Score one for that side. But a… Read more »
‘Add-on Labels’ Designed to Show Which Farmers Employ the Spirit of Organic
Cornucopia’s Take: Continued frustration with the USDA’s watering down of organic standards and the lack of enforcement against giant scofflaws has spurred interest in an alternative food labels. We too believe that we have devolved into two organic labels. Cornucopia remains neutral on other labels, so that we can impartially evaluate them while we work to… Read more »
Growing Doubt: a Scientist’s Experience of GMOs
Independent Science News by Jonathan R. Latham, PhD cspB, from the Bacillus subtilis bacterium, inserted into the genome of corn plantsSource: BASF By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically Modified Organisms) as part of the research that led to my… Read more »
U.S. Court of Appeals Rules State and Local Laws Can Regulate GMOs, Except in Hawaii
Cornucopia’s Take: This ruling gives state and local governments the rights overall to regulate and ban GM crops – except in Hawaii. There, the ruling interprets GM-friendly Hawaii state law as superseding Hawaiian county and municipal law. Because of Hawaii’s unique climate, the biotech industry routinely tests crops there, subjecting Hawaiians to more restricted-use insecticides and pesticides… Read more »
Los Angeles May Become Largest GMO-Free Area in the US
RT.com Los Angeles is considering a ban on the cultivation, sale and distribution of genetically modified organisms, which would make the city the largest GMO-free zone in the US. Los Angeles City Councilmen Paul Koretz and Mitch O’Farrell introduced Friday a motion to curb growth and proliferation of GMO seeds and plants within the city…. Read more »
California’s Largest Tribe Bans GMO Crops and Genetically-Engineered Salmon
EcoWatch by Lorraine Chow Source: Lynn Friedman The Yurok Tribe—California’s largest tribe with roughly 5,000 enrolled members—passed a historic ban on genetically modified (GMOs) crops and salmon. The Yurok Tribal Council unanimously voted on Dec. 10 to enact the Yurok Tribe Genetically Engineered Organism (GEO) Ordinance: The Tribal GEO Ordinance prohibits the propagation, raising, growing,… Read more »
