Tag: GMOs
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Is Corn Healthy?
Corn is one of the most widely eaten foods in the world. It’s also incredibly versatile. You’ll find it in baked goods and breads, popped as a snack, grilled on the cob, fed to cows, used to fuel cars, and as the base ingredient for a huge range of processed foods and additives. But is…
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Ditching Dairy? The Lowdown on Non-Dairy Milk — Plus a Look at 10 Popular Plant Milks
Moo-ve over dairy — the future of milk is plants!
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If You Want Clear GMO Labeling in the U.S. — Now Is The Time to Take Action!
The fight for GMO labeling in North America has been going on for more than 10 years. And now, the law requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods in the U.S. is scheduled to go into effect on July 29th. But the news isn’t as good as it sounds. The law that passed in 2016…
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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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Obama Signs Disastrous Fraudulent GMO “Labeling” Bill – Here’s How It Happened
By Max Goldberg • Originally Published on LivingMaxwell.com On late Friday afternoon, President Obama signed the sham Stabenow-Roberts GMO-Labeling bill (S. 764) which will allow, among many other things, companies to use QR codes instead of clear GMO labels on a food product’s packaging. This bill is so discriminatory and so poorly written that it…
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ConAgra And Kellogg’s Join General Mills And Mars To Label GMOs
By Colin O’Neil • Copyright © Environmental Working Group, www.ewg.org. Reproduced with permission. This is a big week for everyone who eats! Which is all of us. Four major food companies – ConAgra Foods, Kellogg’s, General Mills and Mars, Inc. – announced they will label food products that contain genetically modified organisms, or GMOs. These companies join Campbell’s Soup, which declared its intent…
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California Widow Sues Monsanto For Killing Her Husband
Teri McCall of Cambria, California, lost her husband of 40 years, Anthony “Jack” McCall, to terminal cancer in December 2015. For nearly 30 years on his 20-acre fruit and vegetable farm, Jack had used Monsanto’s herbicide, Roundup. Now, Teri has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Monsanto Co., alleging that Monsanto had known for…
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Golden Rice: Bringing a Superfood Down to Earth
By Glenn Davis Stone • Originally posted on Fieldquestions.com Few GM crops are discussed as much — and misunderstood as much — as “Golden Rice.” Golden Rice is modified to produce beta carotene in the endosperm, rather than only in the bran as in most rice. Beta carotene is a vitamin A precursor, and the…
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Monsanto, RoundUp and Junk Science
By Michael Hansen, Ph.D • Senior Scientist with Consumers Union Last weekend demonstrators joined a March Against Monsanto in some 428 cities in 38 countries, including more than 240 cities in the U.S. alone. What exactly has so many people riled up? Monsanto, of course, is an agrichemical and biotech giant, responsible for more than…
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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.
