Independent Science News by Jonathan Latham, PhD Source: United Soybean Board Pregnant goats fed with genetically engineered (GE) soybeans have offspring who grow more slowly and are shorter, according to a new Italian study (Tudisco et al., 2015). Publishing in the journal of Small Ruminant Research, the researchers were testing the results of supplementing the feed… Read more »
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BREAKING NEWS: USDA to Fully Deregulate Monsanto’s Genetically Engineer Alfalfa — Gene Contamination of Feed, Milk, Meat and Other Products to Follow…
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced this afternoon that the agency will fully deregulate Monsanto’s controversial genetically engineered alfalfa. The choice was favored by the biotech industry and one of three options identified in the USDA’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) released last month. USDA could have maintained regulatory status over the perennial crop that is… Read more »
Top 10 USDA Organic Crimes
Dear good food advocates, I’ve always said that the organic seal is the best guide to good food when you can’t talk to the farmer directly. I still say that, and I mean it. If you follow the work we do at Cornucopia, you know we’re vocal watchdogs of organic policy because we want to… Read more »
CMD Unveils Documents Detailing Insidious PR Campaign to “Greenwash” Weed-Killer Polluting Drinking Water Across the Country
Syngenta’s PR Team Investigated the Press and Paid “Experts” to Shape the News and Counter Scientific Claims of Potential Endocrine Disruption Center for Media and Democracy Madison – The Center for Media and Democracy has posted more than 200 emails, invoices and other documents unsealed as part of a major lawsuit against Syngenta Crop Protection,… 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 »
(ALERT OVER) – Sign the Grassroots Letter Today
Center for Rural Affairs President-elect Barack Obama launched his campaign in Iowa with a promise to create genuine opportunity for rural people and family farmers. Obama proposed changing the failed rural policy of Washington by capping payments to megafarms and enforcing rules against unfair practices by meat packers to strengthen family farms. To revitalize rural… Read more »
Bacterial Ecosystems Divide People Into 3 Groups, Scientists Say
The New York Times By CARL ZIMMER Correction Appended In the early 1900s, scientists discovered that each person belonged to one of four blood types. Now they have discovered a new way to classify humanity: by bacteria. Each human being is host to thousands of different species of microbes. Yet a group of scientists now… Read more »
Escaped GE Bacteria from China Cause Identification Headaches in EU
Cornucopia’s Take: Riboflavin for conventional animal feed is now commonly made using commercially fermented genetically engineered (GE) strains of bacteria. German and Italian regulators found unapproved GE bacteria in animal feed supplements from China. Tracking the strains, which antibiotics are resistant to, has proven onerous. GE ingredients are not allowed in organic production. Illegal GE Bacteria Detected… Read more »
(ALERT OVER) Taking Food Out of the Mouths of Babes
EWG Action Fund The budget legislation passed by House Republicans in the wee hours of February 19 (no Democrats voted for it) would slash $747 million — about 10 percent — from the 2011 budget for the Special Supplemental Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children. It’s commonly known as “WIC.” Created in 1974, WIC… Read more »
Find the GMO Apples!
Cornucopia’s Take: Our colleagues at the Organic Consumers Association are looking for help in finding the GMO apples released into Midwest grocery stores. The apples have been genetically modified not to brown. The anti-browning gene adds nothing nutritionally. Rather it is a marketer’s dream, allowing a long shelf life for apples you wouldn’t eat if… Read more »
