Tag: GMO
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Monsanto’s Roundup. Enough to Make You Sick.
By Alexis Baden-Mayer • Originally posted on Organic Consumers Association Monsanto invented the herbicide glyphosate and brought it to market under the trade name Roundup in 1974, after DDT was banned. But it wasn’t until the late 1990s that the use of Roundup surged, thanks to Monsanto’s ingenious marketing strategy. The strategy? Genetically engineer seeds to grow…
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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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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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Vermont Attorney General’s Office Releases Draft GMO Labeling Rules
In Vermont, GMO labeling law goes into effect July 2016. However, a lawsuit has been filed by food companies. Who will prevail? Vermont will hopefully be the first state in the nation to require the labeling of food made with genetically modified organisms. The right to label was hard won in a fight against biotech…
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US Farmers Launch Billion Dollar Suit Against Syngenta
By Christina Sarich • Originally published on Nation of Change Another biotech-giant fail: Syngenta may have destroyed the corn export business that U.S. farmers count on by releasing a genetically altered variety before its was approved. Will the U.S. still be the world leader in corn production? Syngenta may have single-handedly destroyed the corn export business that US…
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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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Cancer deaths double in Argentina’s GMO and intensive cropping areas
Originally published on GMeducation.org by Lawrence Woodward. Click here to view the original. (6th July 2014) A report by the Ministry of Health in Córdoba, Argentina reveals that deaths from cancerous tumours are double the national average in areas where genetically engineered crops are grown and agro-chemicals are used. This comprehensive report documented five years…
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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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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…
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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…
