Huff Post by Dave Gram MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — As hundreds cheered, Gov. Peter Shumlin signed a law Thursday that puts Vermont on the path to be the first state to require labeling of genetically modified foods and promptly announced an online fundraiser to battle expected legal challenges from the food industry. The Vermont law… Read more »
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Stop Making Us Guinea Pigs
The New York Times by Mark Bittman Source: Montecruz Foto The issues surrounding G.M.O.s — genetically modified organisms — have never been simple. They became more complicated last week when the International Agency for Research on Cancer declared that glyphosate, the active ingredient in the widely used herbicide Roundup, probably causes cancer in humans. Two… Read more »
Leading the GMO Food Fight
The Hill By Elise Viebeck According to Dave Murphy, the national movement to label genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, sprang to life in 2007 because of presidential candidate Barack Obama, the same man Murphy now criticizes as inactive on the issue. “It’s an incredibly heartbreaking failure,” said Murphy, the 45-year-old activist from Iowa, referring to… Read more »
U.S. Court of Appeals Rules State and Local Laws Can Regulate GMOs, Except in Hawaii
Cornucopia’s Take: This ruling gives state and local governments the rights overall to regulate and ban GM crops – except in Hawaii. There, the ruling interprets GM-friendly Hawaii state law as superseding Hawaiian county and municipal law. Because of Hawaii’s unique climate, the biotech industry routinely tests crops there, subjecting Hawaiians to more restricted-use insecticides and pesticides… Read more »
Los Angeles May Become Largest GMO-Free Area in the US
RT.com Los Angeles is considering a ban on the cultivation, sale and distribution of genetically modified organisms, which would make the city the largest GMO-free zone in the US. Los Angeles City Councilmen Paul Koretz and Mitch O’Farrell introduced Friday a motion to curb growth and proliferation of GMO seeds and plants within the city…. Read more »
No No Nano: Macro-Objections to Micro-Machinations of Industrial Processed Food
The Call of the Land by Steven McFadden “To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.” – Wendell Berry Steven McFadden Steadily, stealthily, corporations are driving the goodness of natural life itself from our food, and cleverly – though unwisely – infesting it with dim bits of microscopic material substance… Read more »
Whistleblower Speaks Out Against USDA, Corruption and Systemic Pesticides
truthout by Maryam Henein, HoneyColony Dr. Jonathan Lundgren, a respected expert on the risk assessment of pesticides and genetically modified crops, worked for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research (ARS) for more than a decade. But when his findings on the ill effects of systemic pesticides and RNAi on pollinators began to gain… Read more »
California’s Largest Tribe Bans GMO Crops and Genetically-Engineered Salmon
EcoWatch by Lorraine Chow Source: Lynn Friedman The Yurok Tribe—California’s largest tribe with roughly 5,000 enrolled members—passed a historic ban on genetically modified (GMOs) crops and salmon. The Yurok Tribal Council unanimously voted on Dec. 10 to enact the Yurok Tribe Genetically Engineered Organism (GEO) Ordinance: The Tribal GEO Ordinance prohibits the propagation, raising, growing,… Read more »
Money Appears to Talk at Pew Research Group
Cornucopia’s Take: Pew Research Group’s recently released results from a public opinion survey, noting public opinion is at odds with the “scientific consensus” that GMOs are safe. Interestingly, Pew received funding from the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS), a group which promotes GMOs as being safe. Scientific funding must always be taken… Read more »
The GMO Fight Ripples Down the Food Chain
Facing Consumer Pressure, More Firms Are Jettisoning GMOs From Their Foods The Wall Street Journal by Annie Gasparro Two years ago, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. initiated a plan to eliminate genetically modified ingredients from its ice cream, an effort to address a nascent consumer backlash and to fulfill its own environmental goals. This fall, nearly a… Read more »
