Are You Ready for the New Wave of Genetically Engineered Foods?

March 20, 2018 GMO

By Stacy Malkan Everyone loves a feel-good story about the future. You’ve probably heard this one: high-tech foods enhanced by science will feed the 9 billion people expected on the planet by 2050. Food made in labs and crops and animals genetically engineered to grow faster and better will make it possible to feed the crowded world, […]

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Syngenta to Pay Farmers $1.5 Billion in Massive GMO Corn Settlement

March 18, 2018 GMO

A $1.51 billion settlement has been reached in the nationwide class action lawsuit filed in Kansas federal court over Syngenta’s genetically modified corn seed.  It is believed to be the largest agricultural litigation settlement in U.S. history.  The settlement covers all U.S. corn producers – farmers and crop share landlords – as well as grain handling facilities and ethanol plants […]

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New Study Links Glyphosate to Shortened Pregnancy Lengths in American Women

March 14, 2018 GMO

  This unique study was performed by scientists from the Indiana University Fairbanks School of Public Health, the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) and the Indiana University School of Medicine. The study conclusion states: “This is the first study of GLY [glyphosate] exposure in US pregnant women using urine specimens as a direct measure of exposure. We found that […]

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MSM, University Blaming Russia for Anti-GMO Sentiment

February 28, 2018 GMO

  By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze The American mainstream corporate media has turned into a literal madhouse in the period of the last two years. Any doubt whether or not mainstream outlets are actually propaganda outlets should have been erased around the time of the 2016 elections. Now, however, it appears that outlets are trying to see […]

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California Court Ruling Ends Decades of State Pesticide Spraying

February 27, 2018 GMO

Judge Strips State Food Agriculture Agency of Authority to Use Chemicals SACRAMENTO, Calif – A judge has ordered the California Department of Food and Agriculture to stop using chemical pesticides in its statewide program until the agency complies with state environmental laws. The injunction, issued late last week, is a sweeping victory for 11 public-health, conservation, citizen and food-safety groups and the city […]

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Glyphosate Residues Discovered in Almond Milk, Bread and Veggie Burgers

February 21, 2018 GMOTop

New laboratory testing commissioned by Moms Across America has shown the presence of the world’s most used herbicide – glyphosate – in almond milk, vegetarian burgers, bread and Skippy’s “100% Natural” peanut butter and Lipton’s “100% Natural” Mint and Green tea. The new round of testing follows on from similar testing commissioned by Moms Across America on popular U.S. orange juice brands […]

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Monsanto Sues Avaaz for Identity of 2 Million Anti-GM Activists, But Whose Side is Avaaz On?

February 20, 2018 GMOTop

SPECIAL REPORT By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze George Soros and Monsanto are battling it out. And the only people who are going to lose are activists and consumers. This is because Avaaz, often labeled the world’s most “biggest and powerful activist network” in existence online, is being dragged into court by Monsanto. The organization has received a […]

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Transforming the Food We Eat With DowDuPont

February 19, 2018 GMO

By Stacy Malkan The world’s largest pesticide and seed companies want you to believe they are on the side of science. High-tech foods are the future, they say, and people who raise concerns about their pesticides and genetically engineered seeds are “anti-science.” The Atlantic magazine will provide a platform to those industry talking points in […]

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Burkina Faso Set for Risky GM Mosquitoes Trial with ‘No Benefits’

February 15, 2018 GMO

Genetically modified (GM) “male-sterile” mosquitoes are due to be released in Burkina Faso this year by the Target Malaria research consortium. However, Target Malaria, which is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation amongst others, acknowledges that there are no benefits to the proposed GM mosquito release. The project is set to apply for […]

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The Monsanto Cover-Up – “Decades of Deceptive Tactics to Make Billions of Dollars”

February 13, 2018 GMO

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Monsanto and human health have never had a good relationship. Despite having been involved in the creation and application of Agent Orange resulting in the deaths and lifelong crippling effects to many American and Vietnamese people and the environment, the corporation did not hang its head in shame but instead rose to […]

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Corporate Power, Not Public Interest, At Root of Science Committee Hearing on IARC

February 13, 2018 GMO

By Carey Gillam Commentary: Corporate power, not public interest, at root of upcoming science committee hearing Score another point for corporate power over protection of the public U.S. Rep Lamar Smith, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, & Technology, has slated a full committee hearing for Feb. 6 with an agenda aimed squarely […]

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Germany Will Phase Out Glyphosate Herbicides ”As Fast As Possible”

February 12, 2018 GMO

The new German government will aim to end the use of glyphosate herbicides “as fast as possible”, according to the draft deal to establish a new German coalition government published on Wednesday on the homepage of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party. The draft states; “We will with a systematic minimalisation strategy significantly restrict use of […]

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Glyphosate in L.A. River Causes Controversy, Lawmaker Responds

February 9, 2018 GMO

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze Glyphosate poisoning of the L.A. river has become so bad and such a contentious issue that a congressman from the area has urged the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stop using the weedkiller. Over the last few years, the use of glyphosate to control weeds and other vegetation around the L.A. […]

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FDA Tries to Kill FOIA on Alter of GMOs

February 8, 2018 GMO

By Brandon Turbeville, Natural Blaze In a surprising turn of events, a U.S. federal court has ruled in favor of the public interest. Even more surprising, the court ruled against the FDA which has been pushing the approval of GE salmon for human consumption. The approval of the GE salmon, which is made from the DNA of […]

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RT America’s Lawyer: Monsanto Weed Killer is Killing Humans

February 2, 2018 GMO

Mike Papantonio and the author Carey Gillam discussed her new book on Thursday, which reveals how Monsanto viciously worked to cover-up the fact that their weed-killer could cause cancer, as part of the America’s Lawyer program on RT . Source: trofire.com Mike Papantonio: The story with Monsanto’s round that begins as early as the 1980s when laboratory tests on glyphosate began […]

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Newsweek and USA Today Have Bizarre Standards for Opinion Writers

February 1, 2018 GMO

By Stacy Malkan Why are Newsweek and USA Today so willing to let special interests mislead their readers? Clear standards are needed for disclosing conflicts of interest Facts don’t matter in commentaries printed by Newsweek so long as the writer “seems genuine.” That’s the takeaway from a troubling email exchange with Newsweek Opinion Editor Nicholas Wapshott in response to concerns […]

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Monsanto’s Fingerprints All Over Newsweek’s Hit on Organic Food

January 31, 2018 GMO

By Stacy Malkan “The campaign for organic food is a deceitful, expensive scam,” according to a Jan. 19 Newsweek article authored by Dr. Henry I. Miller of the Hoover Institution. If that name sounds familiar – Henry I. Miller – it may be because the New York Times recently revealed a scandalinvolving Miller: that he had been caught publishing an article ghostwritten […]

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Organic CSA Faces Ruin After Herbicide Drift Destroys the Family Farm

January 30, 2018 GMO

By Natural Blaze “Vesterbrook Farm, which supplies a 150-member CSA near St. Louis, suffers huge losses of vegetable and fruits from herbicide drift from a neighbor’s soybean field,” Non-GMO Report stated. The Brabo family ran a farm that was in the family for over a century. After letting grass grow on it for 15 years, they […]

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Glyphosate Herbicides Are Loaded With Toxic Heavy Metals Like Arsenic

January 26, 2018 GMO

By Natural Blaze As if glyphosate wasn’t bad enough for being linked to breast cancer in parts per trillion, more research is finding previously hidden and toxic heavy metals in herbicides that are readily eaten up by humans and animals thanks to GMO crops that are engineered to withstand Roundup spraying. (Glyphosate is the active ingredient […]

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Germany to Ban Glyphosate Herbicides in Shock to Monsanto-Bayer Merger

January 24, 2018 GMO

By Sustainable Pulse In a shock announcement Friday [Jan 12], Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed on a blueprint for formal grand coalition negotiations, which includes a complete ban on glyphosate herbicides. Details of the suggested ban are yet to be announced. Sources in the German Social Democrats (SPD) […]

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