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Bills Would Require Labels on Genetically Engineered Food in Minnesota

Bills in the state Legislature are opposed by Minnesota’s major food manufacturers. Star Tribune By Mike Hughlett Minnesota could become the next battleground in the fight over mandatory labels for genetically modified food. Bills were introduced Thursday in the Minnesota Legislature that would require food manufacturers to label their products to indicate whether they contain… Read more »

Are America’s Nutrition Professionals in the Pocket of Big Food?

Eat, Drink, Politics Public health attorney and author Michele Simon asks: Are America’s nutrition professionals in the pocket of Big Food? While the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ 74,000-member trade group partners with the likes of Coke and Hershey’s, the nation’s health continues to suffer from poor diet. The largest trade group of nutrition professionals—the… Read more »

Supreme Court Hears Monsanto v. Geertson Arguments

AgWeb (link no longer available) Charles Johnson, Farm Journal National Editor Neither side had a clear edge when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, the case involving GMO alfalfa (read the background on the case). In fact, the justices seemed to wonder why the case wound up before… Read more »

Battle Over Organic Products Turns Toxic

Law.com Tresa Baldas The organic marketplace is sprouting litigation over fake organic and natural products — some of them harmful — that are being sold to unwitting consumers. In Missouri, several class actions have been consolidated into one suit against the Aurora Organic Dairy Corp., which is accused of selling bogus organic milk that does… Read more »

India’s Rice Revolution

In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages? The Observer by John Vidal Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village… Read more »

Glyphosate/Roundup & Human Male Infertility

The Permaculture Research Institute by Dr Mae-Wan Ho A steep decline in human male sperm count concomitant with rise in testicular germ cell cancer, congenital malformations of the male reproductive tract and drop in serum testosterone levels, all pointing towards increasing exposure to glyphosate/Roundup herbicides during the past decades, now corroborated by lab findings. A fully… Read more »

Re-assessing Biofuels, an Interview with Dr. David Pimentel

Civil Eats By Aaron French If you’ve been listening to the news in the past month, you’ve probably heard quite a bit about biofuels. Simply put, they are fuel made out of plants – principally corn and soybeans in the United States. The new Obama administration is solidly in favor of increased biofuels production. Everyone… Read more »

Eating Organic Lowers Pesticide Levels in Children

[For more on this subject, please read The Cornucopia Institute’s recently released report, Protecting Children’s Health: Choosing Organic Food to Avoid GMOs and Agricultural Chemicals.] The New York Times by Nicholas Bakalar Source: USDA Researchers have found that when children eat organic fruits and vegetables, the amount of pesticides in their bodies declines significantly. Most organophosphorus… Read more »

Huge Snack and Cereal Food Manufacturers Offer Dietitians Continuing Education

Examiner.com Marketing chips and other processed snack foods, sodas, and sugary GMO cereals to registered dietitians is part of big business. Registered dietitians have to keep taking continuing education courses to keep their licenses. So who’s offering a lot of the required continuing education seminars? It’s not organic produce farmers. It’s the largest food manufacturers…. Read more »