New York State’s GMO Labeling Bill, A3525-A, is getting a public hearing on July 30, 2013. The New York state Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection will be holding the hearing. Testimony is by invitation only but anyone can attend, according to GMO Free NY. The Assembly committee is seeking information regarding scientific research… Read more »
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The Next Great GMO Debate
Technology Review by Antonio Regalado Deep inside its labs, Monsanto is learning how to modify crops by spraying them with RNA rather than tinkering with their genes. The Colorado potato beetle is a voracious eater. The insect can chew through 10 square centimeters of leaf a day, and left unchecked it will strip a plant… Read more »
GMO Companies May Soon Regulate Themselves: Comment by August 6
New rules put agriculture and the public at risk [This action alert is over.] The USDA has recently proposed a set of rules that would allow chemical companies such as Dow and Bayer/Monsanto to determine the safety of their own products. The proposed rules, now open for public comment, would further deregulate an untrustworthy industry…. Read more »
With No Labeling, Few Realize They Are Eating Genetically Modified Foods
Some consumers are concerned that such foods may pose health risks and say manufacturers should be required to identify them for consumers The Chicago Tribune By Monica Eng, Tribune reporter When a team of activists wearing white hazmat suits showed up at a Chicago grocery store to protest the sale of genetically modified foods, they… Read more »
GMO News Coverage is Carefully Controlled
Cornucopia’s Take: The article below describes the lengths to which the biotech industry goes to control messaging around its products. Cornucopia supports the precautionary principle and advocates for strict regulations and food transparency so that consumers understand the food they are eating as well as the technology used to produce it. Does the Biotech Industry… Read more »
Food Labeling Bill Stirs Debate at State Capitol about Genetically Modified Products
A bill requiring the labeling of genetically modified foods got an informational hearing in St. Paul. Star Tribune by Tom Meersman An emerging controversy over requiring labels for genetically engineered food arrived at the State Capitol on Thursday. A few dozen proponents wearing green “Label GMOs” stickers listened to Rep. Karen Clark, DFL-Minneapolis, describe “a… Read more »
NEWS RELEASE Unveiled: GMO Labeling Opponents Come Out of the Shadows 10.22.13
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Mark Kastel, 608-625-2042 Unveiled: GMO Labeling Opponents Come Out of the Shadows Natural/Organic Brands No Longer Hiding Behind Lobbying Organization The Cornucopia Institute releases shopper’s guide: pro/con I-522 brands https://www.cornucopia.org/2013/10/unveiled-gmo-labeling-opponents-come-shadows/ CORNUCOPIA, WI: Proposition I-522, a citizen’s initiative on the November 5 ballot in Washington state that would mandate clear labeling of genetically engineered… Read more »
Farmers to Monsanto: Save Our Seeds
Crosscut (Seattle, WA) By Amy Pennington Eastern Washington farmers are increasingly worried about agricultural invasion from Monsanto’s unwanted genetically modified and patent-protected seeds, which can threaten a farm’s organic status and land them in court. Now a national coalition of independent farmers is fighting back. Lazy R Ranch sits just outside of Spokane and raises… Read more »
Groups Aim to Put GMO Food Labeling Measure on the Ballot in Oregon
EarthFix by Cassandra Profita Undeterred by the failure of GMO labeling measures in Washington and California, advocate groups have launched a campaign to put a similar statewide measure on the November ballot in Oregon. A group called Oregon Right To Know announced Thursday that it will be collecting signatures for an initiative that would require new labels on foods… Read more »
The New GMO
Cornucopia’s Take: This insightful interview with Michael Hansen discusses the new wave of genetically engineered foods, the problematic language in the recent national GMO food labeling law that could keep those foods unlabeled, and why GMOs are not the future of food. GMO 2.0 Foods Coming Your Way: Will They Be Labeled? U.S. Right to… Read more »
