Tag: Genetically Modified Organisms
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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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Election Day And The Food Movement
In California in 2012, and then in Washington in 2013, and now in Oregon in 2014, it’s been the same story. In each case, voters have initiated ballot measures to mandate GMO labeling. At first, the measures have been overwhelmingly popular. Because, after all, most people want to know what’s in their food. Then Monsanto, DuPont,…
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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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Changing Labels Won’t Increase Food Prices
As a lobbyist for the food industry, I spent five years fighting proposals that would have raised food prices — ranging from ethanol mandates that drove up the cost of corn and other commodities to taxes that consumers had to pay at the register. At a time when so many Americans have been struggling to…
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U.S. Government Ties El Salvador USD 277 M Aid Package to Monsanto’s GMO Seeds
It has come to light that the U.S. government is withholding $277 million in aid money from El Salvador in order to pressure it to accept Monsanto’s GM seeds. The President of the El Salvadoran Center for Appropriate Technologies (CESTA), Ricardo Navarro, has demanded that the U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador, Mari Carmen Aponte, stops…
