Get dirty, have fun and grow more food with great gardening tips from real-life gardeners Mother Earth News By Natural Society If you’ve already been through an economic collapse, you might know a thing or two about how to feed your family with little money. More importantly, you might know how to do it without… Read more »
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Organic Farmers Say They’re Hemhorraging Thousands Because of One Problem the USDA Refuses to Address
AltHealthWORKS by Nick Meyer Source: donkeycart Even as United States consumers begin demanding more and more organic foods, organic farmers themselves are struggling with the realities of life in a system that seems set up for genetically modified crops to thrive. Subsidies for corn and soybeans are the norm here, and while farmers who wish… Read more »
Following an Email Trail: How a Public University Professor Collaborated on a Corporate PR Campaign
U.S. Right to Know by Carey Gillam Bruce Chassy Source: University of Illinois Former University of Illinois food science professor Bruce Chassy is known for his academic gravitas. Now retired nearly four years, Chassy still writes and speaks often about food safety issues, identifying himself with the full weight of the decades of experience earned… Read more »
Living With GMOs
[This action alert is now closed] The Letter From America An open letter to the citizens, politicians, and regulators of the UK and the rest of the EU about the hazards of genetically modified crops We are writing as concerned American citizens to share with you our experience of genetically modified (GM) crops and the… Read more »
Insecticide ‘Unacceptable’ Danger to Bees, Report Finds
The Guardian By Damian Carrington Campaigners say the conclusion by the European Food Safety Authority is a ‘death knell’ for neonicotinoid pesticides The world’s most widely used insecticide has for the first time been officially labelled an “unacceptable” danger to bees feeding on flowering crops. Environmental campaigners say the conclusion, by Europe’s leading food safety… Read more »
GMO Impossible Burger Using Biotech Playbook to Misinform Consumers
Cornucopia’s Take: The company responsible for the vegan meat alternative, Impossible Burger, never performed sufficient food safety studies to receive the FDA’s “generally regarded as safe” (GRAS) status. When the FDA requested lengthier studies, Impossible Burger simply put its GMO yeast-containing product on the market without GRAS status. In response to criticism, Impossible Burger has… Read more »
Why the ‘Non-GMO’ Label is Organic’s Frenemy
The Salt on NPR by Dan Charles It’s easy to think of “organic” and “non-GMO” as the best buddies of food. They sit comfortably beside each other in the same grocery stores — most prominently, in Whole Foods Market. Culturally, they also seem to occupy the same space. Both reject aspects of mainstream industrial agriculture…. Read more »
Just Label It! So We Know When it’s GMO
The Huffington Post Green by Maria Rodale, CEO and Chairman of Rodale, Inc. and book author I demand organic. It’s that simple. I know, you’re thinking, “Of course you demand organic. You wrote the Organic Manifesto and grew up on an organic farm.” True, but, even if I didn’t, I would demand organic and so… Read more »
Roberts Aims to Recruit Democratic Votes for GMO Pre-emption
Food & Environment Reporting Network by Chuck Abbott Pat Roberts (KS) Source: USDA To win Senate passage of his bill to pre-empt state GMO food-labeling laws, Agriculture Committee chairman Pat Roberts says he’ll need 60 votes — enough to quash a filibuster — and that means recruiting a substantial number of Democratic votes. “You have to… Read more »
The New Frontier: Genetically Modified Oil Wars
GMO Journal Consumer Beware: the next generation of biotech crops focus directly on you. Unlike most of GM crops currently on the market, which are genetically altered to be herbicide and pesticide resistant, the new generation of GM crops are designed to express alleged nutritional benefits. Focusing on soybean oil — the fastest way to… Read more »
