Tag: Genetically Modified Food
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GMOs. 2.0 — The Truth About The Next Wave of Genetically Engineered Foods
New GMOs are arriving. Discover the realities behind the rhetoric.
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Scotland to issue formal ban on genetically modified crops
By Severin Carrell • Originally published on The Guardian Ministers aim to use recent EU powers to opt out of a regime that is expected to see greater commercial use of GM crops around Europe Scottish ministers are planning to formally ban genetically modified crops from being grown in Scotland, widening a policy divide with the…
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Herbicide and Insecticide Use on GMO Crops Skyrocketing While Pro-GMO Media Run Interference
Former EPA Senior Scientist’s New Article Sets Record Straight Michael Specter’s recent articles bashing Vandana Shiva and the labeling of genetically engineered foods (Seeds of Doubt and The Problem with G.M.O. Labels, 8/25/14) in the New Yorker are the latest high-profile pro-GMO articles that fail to engage with the fundamental critique of genetically engineered food…
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Bill Nye on GMOs
This is a powerful and entertaining explanation of GMOs. You can share this with friends who just don’t get it. Make sure to check out the part that starts at 6:27.
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Ruin is forever: When the precautionary principle is justified
Originally published on Resource Insights (ResourceInsights.Blogspot.com) by Kurt Cobb. Click here to view the original. If you are dead, you cannot mount a comeback. If all life on Earth were destroyed by, say, a large comet impact, there would be no revival. Ruin is forever. The destruction of all life on Earth is not 10 times worse than…
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Confused by the Oregonian’s GMO Confusion
That didn’t take long. In the past few months, New York Times and Consumers Union polls both found over 90% of respondents wanted GMO food labeled. Three days after GMO labeling supporters turned in over 155,000 signatures to put their initiative on November’s ballot, and four months before Election Day, the Oregonian editorial board sounded the…
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Is The USDA Really Dumb Enough To Approve Agent Orange Corn?
The Obama administration announced last week that it expects to approve corn and soybeans that have been genetically engineered by Dow Chemical company to tolerate the toxic herbicide — 2,4-D. They are planning this approval despite the fact that use of this herbicide is associated with increased rates of deadly immune system cancers, Parkinson’s disease, endocrine disruption, birth defects,…
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Huge news: Hawaiian mayor signs GMO ban into law
It’s official. The mayor of the island of Hawaii, Billy Kenoi, has signed bill 113 into law. This bill prohibits biotech companies from operating on the island, and it bans farmers from growing any new genetically altered crops. (The papaya industry, which has more than 200 farms on the island, is exempt from the bill.)…
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In 2013, The GMO Food Fight Continues
A guest post by Food Revolution Summit Speaker Ronnie Cummins On November 6, in the wake of one of the most expensive and scurrilous smear campaigns in history, six million voters scared the hell out of Monsanto and Big Food Inc. by coming within a razor’s edge of passing the first statewide mandatory labeling law for genetically…
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Can GMOs Help End World Hunger?
Can genetically engineered foods help feed the hungry? Are anti-GMO activists and over-zealous environmentalists standing in the way of the hungry being fed? The hope that GMO foods might bring solutions to malnutrition and world hunger was never more dramatically illustrated than when Time magazine ran a cover story titled “Grains of Hope.” The article…