Independent Science News by Thomas Bøhn and Marek Cuhra Soybeans Credit: USDA NRCS Food and feed quality are crucial to human and animal health. Quality can be defined as sufficiency of appropriate minerals, vitamins and fats, etc. but it also includes the absence of toxins, whether man-made or from other sources. Surprisingly, almost no data exist… Read more »
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Genetically Modified Canola Goes Wild
‘Feral’ plants found growing along roads from North Dakota to Manitoba The Vancouver Sun By Margaret Munro, Postmedia News Genetically modified canola has escaped from the farm and is thriving in the wild across North Dakota, according to a study that indicates there are plenty of novel man-made genes crossing the Canada-U.S. border. GM canola… Read more »
Half of Europe Opts Out of New GM Crop Scheme
The Guardian by Arthur Neslen, Brussels Source: European Parliament Bid for exclusion by 14 countries and three regions would make two-thirds of Europe’s population and arable land GM-free Half of the European Union’s 28 countries and three of its regions have opted out of a new GM crop scheme, in a blow to biotech industry… Read more »
A Change We Can Believe In – Dumping Industrial Agriculture
CommonDreams.org by Jim Goodman As 2009 approaches, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) notes nearly a billion people a day go hungry worldwide. While India supplies Switzerland with 80% of its wheat, 350 million Indians are food-insecure. Rice prices have nearly tripled since early 2007 because, according to The International Rice Research Institute,… Read more »
Voting Beyond Our Forks
Attention shoppers: it’s going to take more than consciousness at the checkout line to fix our broken food system Whole Life Times By Christopher D. Cook Bacterial scares aside, these are propitious days for good food. Burgeoning interest in organic, nontransfatty, local, slow, GMO-free foods suggests a ripening of consciousness that could transform today’s corporate… Read more »
How These Farmer Janes Are Making Organics Profitable
Rodale’s Organic Life by Audra Mulkern Farm-to-table gets a serious dose of girl power. All across America, women are returning to the land and reviving age-old traditions of farming, which, as a business, is often fraught with struggles to turn a profit. But these four superwomen have combined their individual passions for food, organic farming,… Read more »
Pregnant Women Who Eat Genetically Modified Foods Risk Endangering Their Unborn Babies
The Independent By Geoffrey Lean, Environment Editor Women who eat GM foods while pregnant risk endangering their unborn babies, startling new research suggests. The study – carried out by a leading scientist at the Russian Academy of Sciences – found that more than half of the offspring of rats fed on modified soya died in… Read more »
U.S. Won’t Regulate Modified Grass
The Calgary Herald From Herald News Services SCIENCE . An herbicide tolerant Kentucky bluegrass engineered by Scotts Miracle-Gro is not covered by U.S. biotechnology rules nor is it a weed, the Agriculture Department ruled on Friday.
