Tag: GMO
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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…
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Look Who’s Spent $100,000,000 To Keep Americans Eating In The Dark
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) sounds friendly enough. The word “grocer” brings to mind wholesome mom-and-pop shops out to feed the community. But the GMA is not an association of small-time corner stores. In reality the GMA represents the arguably sordid interests of its members – some of the biggest junk food and pesticide companies…
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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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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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Did Monsanto Trick California Voters?
California could have been the first state in the nation to mandate the labeling of genetically engineered foods. We would have joined more than 60 countries where consumers have the right to know if their food has been genetically modified. But the prospect of Proposition 37 terrified the junk food and pesticide companies that want to keep…
