Tag: Center for Food Safety
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The Truth About Monsanto You Need to Know
By Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety Most of us have told a lie a time or two and probably a variety of them. For example, there is the excuse lie as in the timeless “my dog at my homework,” and the proverbial “white lie” as in “No you really do look great in those…
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Four Ways the US Government Just Derailed Climate Progress
By Andrew Kimbrell • Founder and Director, Center for Food Safety | Photo from chesapeakeclimate In order to avert another government shutdown, President Obama will sign a 1,600 page, 16 pound, $1.1 trillion spending bill–oddly called “the cromnibus.” While it may sound like a robot from the latest Transformers saga, it’s actually a term referring to the continuing…
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Genetically Engineered Crops Threaten Monarchs
In the past 20 years, the widespread planting of genetically engineered crops in the Midwestern United States has precipitated the widespread loss of more than 90 percent of monarch butterflies. Like the honeybee, the monarch is a modern “canary in the cornfield,” an environmental indicator and crucial pollinator. Now a coalition of the Center for…
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Will Coca-Cola support mandatory GMO labeling?
The global food revolution is now affecting the bottom line of Coca-Cola. The company recently announced their second-quarter profits for the year fell from $2.68 billion to $2.6 billion, and their revenue decreased by 1%. Latin America also saw a 1% decline in volume and a 9% drop in sales, which was partially blamed on…
