Organic Consumers Association By Will Allen, Cedar Circle Farm, Vermont, and Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association The world’s most hated corporation is at it again, this time in Vermont. Despite overwhelming public support and support from a clear majority of Vermont’s Agriculture Committee, Vermont legislators are dragging their feet on a proposed GMO labeling bill…. Read more »
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Too Soon? Kashi Launches Certified Organic Cereals Weeks After GMO Backlash
Organic Authority By Jill Ettinger Kellogg’s Kashi cereal division announced the launch of two new certified organic cereals on Tuesday: Simply Maize and Indigo Morning. The announcement comes just weeks after a photo condemning the cereal company for hidden genetically modified ingredients went viral on the Internet. Last year, The Cornucopia Institute, a public interest… Read more »
How Little Vermont Got Big Food Companies To Label GMOs
The Salt – NPR by Dan Charles and Allison Aubrey Listen to the story here. Legislature of VermontSource: Michel G. You’ll soon know whether many of the packaged foods you buy contain ingredients derived from genetically modified plants, such as soybeans and corn. Over the past week or so, big companies including General Mills, Mars… Read more »
Two States Ready to Fight for GMO Labeling in November While Industry Pushes Bill to Remove State Rights
Mercola.com by Dr. Mercola Credit: NRCS The pesticide and junk food industries continue to cause harm, even deaths, while destroying our rights and indemnifying themselves from liability. That’s the take-home message from the September 8 article in The Progressive,1 which recounts the travails of residents in Cedar Valley, Oregon. It’s also the take-home message of other related… Read more »
GMO Drift Renders Organic Crops Uninsurable
Cornucopia’s Take: In an apparent handshake with the biotech industry, the USDA has declared that crop insurance does not cover organic crops contaminated by chemical or GMO drift. Other problems also plague crop insurance programs for organic farmers, as the insurance doesn’t include pesticide contamination in inputs like compost. A good insurance program would pay… Read more »
GMO Labeling Requirements: Brazil Fines Nestle, PepsiCo for Failing to Disclose Genetically Modified Ingredients
International Business Times by Elizabeth Whitman The transgenic symbol, above, identifies GMO foods and ingredients in Brazil Brazil’s Ministry of Justice has fined six global food giants, including Nestlé and PepsiCo, for failing to disclose that their products contained genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, TeleSUR reported Thursday. The fines come during economically and politically turbulent times for Brazil,… Read more »
Help Protect Vermont’s GMO Food Labeling Law
If Not Blocked, Vermont’s Law May Usher in GMO Labeling Nationwide! Source: Alexandra E Rust Vermont’s landmark GMO food labeling law is scheduled to take effect on July 1. Monsanto and the Big Food opponents of the law are scrambling in the U.S. Senate to come up with a federal law to block or preempt… Read more »
GMO Alfalfa is a Slow Starter
Cornucopia’s Take: Cornucopia vigorously opposed the introduction of GMO alfalfa. We highlighted many of the problems with the GMO version of this perennial and important crop for farmers. Both organic and conventional farmers expressed considerable concern over Monsanto’s alfalfa creation. It’s interesting that it has thus far failed to meet the biotech giant’s expectations. Growers… Read more »
Organic/Natural Retailing: Anti or Pro GMO Labeling?
Prop37: Is your grocer selling-out your values? Voting with your dollars – it matters not just what you buy, but where you buy. So how is your grocer, whether it be an independent store, member-owned cooperative, or public corporation, spending some of their profits—coming from your hard-earned food dollars? Proposition 37, on the ballot in… Read more »
Big Ag Cries that Dannon Non-GMO Pledge is Not Sustainable
Cornucopia’s Take: A “who’s who” list of industrial agriculture proponents have written a strongly worded letter, calling Dannon’s non-GMO pledge “marketing flim-flam.” It appears that consumer opinion, and voting with our forks, has gained enough power to sway Big Food, to the dismay of Big Ag. Cornucopia notes that organic is by definition non-GMO and… Read more »
