Boiling Frogs Post By Sibel Edmonds Research should be conducted by independent investigators who can freely publish their results, but should not be subject to politics.  Unfortunately, when it comes to GMOs, this is not always true.  When a research study was published in a respected scientific journal that showed harm to rats fed GMO… Read more »

Cornucopia’s Take: GMO farmers have seen big crop losses as weeds have increasingly become resistant to Monsanto’s Roundup. Monsanto has pushed its dicamba resistant soy and cotton seeds as a solution, but use of the  notoriously volatile herbicide will inevitably promote dicamba resistant weed growth. Meanwhile, the massive increase in dicamba use has caused record… Read more »

Cornucopia’s Take: The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit to learn what the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service know about how the pesticides chlorpyrifos, diazinon, and malathion harm endangered species. The Trump administration has refused to ban these pesticides that are known to be harmful to humans and animals… Read more »

Aljazeera by The Associated Press Source: Eric Chan A federal judge has ruled that federal and state law pre-empts Maui County GMO-crop ban A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Maui County ban on the cultivation of genetically engineered crops is pre-empted by federal and state law and invalid. The county’s ordinance creating the prohibition… Read more »

Cornucopia’s Take: The FDA is slowing company bids to create hornless cattle and tailless pigs, seeking regulations for the possible animals of the future. Some of these companies are working with the White House to be (less) “regulated” by the USDA, given Secretary Perdue’s recent statement on gene editing in plants. Gene editing is not… Read more »

The Center for Public Integrity by Erin Quinn and Chris Young Why doesn’t the government know what’s in your food? Because industry can declare on their own that added ingredients are safe. It’s all thanks to a loophole in a 57-year-old law that allows food manufacturers to circumvent the approval process by regulators. This means… Read more »

Cornucopia’s Take: U.S. consumers typically think of genetically engineered food as “GE” or “GMO,” but the proposed logos to identify such products on grocery shelves use the brand-new letters “BE” for “bioengineered.” Cornucopia considers this re-branding a proposed betrayal of the public trust by the USDA. Public comments will be accepted at regulations.gov until July… Read more »

Food Safety News by Cookson Beecher Like a persistent mosquito that keeps coming back no matter how many times you bat it away, the controversial issue of mandated labeling for genetically engineered foods in the United States just won’t go away. The latest example of that persistence is legislation proposed in Washington state that would… Read more »

AgriPulse by Philip Brasher Secretary Vilsack Source: USDA WASHINGTON, April 30, 2015 – A House committee is preparing for the first time to move a bill that would preempt state GMO labeling laws, and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is offering support for the effort. The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Fred Upton… Read more »