Minnesota-based group leads national battles over labeling that identifies genetically modified ingredients. Star Tribune By Mike Hughlett Consumers who want to know if their food contains genetically modified ingredients can thank Ronnie Cummins for his efforts to slap labels saying as much on everything from taco chips to coffee cake. Food companies can blame him… Read more »
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GMO Salmon is Being Sold as Sushi
Cornucopia’s Take: Although AquaBounty, the makers of engineered fast-growing salmon, have refused to tell the public where their product is being sold, their CEO recently bragged to investors that it is being used in the Canadian buyer’s “high-end sashimi lines, not their frozen prepared foods.” Consumers must continue to be wary of the origin of… Read more »
Stonyfield Chairman Throws Weight/Commitment behind Proposition 37 in California
Gary Hirshberg Encourages All Organic Stakeholders to Invest in GMO Labeling Cornucopia, WI – At least one chapter in what some in the organic industry described as a “family feud” has been amicably settled after one of the organic industry’s most prominent corporate leaders, Gary Hirshberg, cut a check supporting the campaign to pass California… Read more »
Agrochemical Companies Sue to Block Anti-GMO Law in Hawaii
Reuters By Christopher D’Angelo Three of the world’s largest agrochemical companies have filed a lawsuit in Hawaii to block a law enacted on the island of Kauai in November to limit the planting of biotech crops and the use of pesticides. DuPont, Syngenta and Agrigenetics Inc, a company affiliated with the Dow AgroSciences unit of… Read more »
So You Want To Be a Farmer…
Ever dream of chucking it all for the simple life? Read this first. Modern Farmer by Jesse Hirsch Credit: John Carrel “Sorry — you’re low man on the totem pole.” With those words, farmer Eliza Winters dispatched me to the field. I was on rock duty — a tough job on any day, but especially… Read more »
GMO Lobbying Spiked 31 Percent in First Quarter
Bloomberg BNA by Casey Wooten Source: Umberto Salvagnin As the Senate geared up earlier this year to debate legislation establishing a nationwide, voluntary system for labeling foods made with genetically modified organisms, so did K Street. But for all the lobbyists, public campaigns and press releases, Congress couldn’t agree on a national labeling standard. The… Read more »
ACTION ALERT: Act Now to Stop Monsanto’s Congressional DARK Act
[This action alert is now closed] The U.S. Senate will be holding a hearing on Monsanto’s and Big Food’s dream bill to crush the right of states to require labeling of foods containing GMO ingredients. Dubbed by opponents the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act, H.R. 1599 is being pushed as several states… Read more »
Organic, Small Farmers Fret Over FDA Regulation
San Francisco Chronicle Carolyn Lochhead, Chronicle Washington Bureau Washington — Small farmers in California who have led a national movement away from industrial agriculture face a looming crackdown on food safety that they say is geared to big corporate farms and will make it harder for them to survive. The small growers, many of whom… Read more »
GMO Labeling Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress
Food Safety News By Dan Flynn Today Colorado’s Jared Polis will announce, outside a reborn organic retail store in Boulder, that he is introducing a federal bill in Congress to mandate the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms in all 50 states. And next Tuesday, the Maryland House Health and Government Operations Committee will… Read more »
Can GMOs Save the World?
Aljazeera America by Anna Lappé Source: Peter Blanchard In October in Istanbul, farmers, agricultural researchers and advocates from around the world gathered for the Organic World Congress, organized by the 42-year-old International Federation of Organic Agricultural Movements (IFOAM). With 800 affiliates in 124 countries, IFOAM comes together every three years to gauge its global efforts to promote… Read more »
