Investigation reveals damaging conflict of interest despite claims of no Monsanto funding. Report by Claire Robinson and Jonathan Matthews at GM Watch In what appears to be an exercise in damage limitation, an article in the journal Nature has disclosed that Kevin Folta, a plant…
By Heather Callaghan It’s like waking up from a bad dream – almost too good to be true. Imagine that Big Food starts changing over all the ingredients in their products to benevolent sources. Suddenly, preschoolers, hospital patients, students, the elderly and SNAP users aren’t…
by Sustainable Pulse The African Centre for Biodiversity (ACB), lodged an appeal last week to South African Agriculture, Water Affairs and Forestry Minister Senzeni Zokwana, against the general release approval of Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) maize, MON87460 granted by the Executive Council (EC): GMO Act….
By Heather Callaghan Many would be apt to call weed resistance what it is – weed resistance. A problem with weeds developing resistance to herbicides sprayed on Roundup Ready crops that are genetically engineered to withstand herbicide exposure. Some would also call that a failure…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Realistically, something is being done at ‘grassroots’ level to determine IF glyphosate—a chemical in Roundup® that is being implicated in negative health effects—is present in mothers’ breast milk. For example, one Pennsylvania citizens group, GMO Free Lancaster County, has been testing…
RT America New documents from OpenSecrets claim that House of Representatives lawmakers who voted for the Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015, a law which would stop any labeling of GMO foods, were paid at least three times as much by food industry…
Natural Blaze National Co+op Grocers (NCG) today is expressing its disappointment in the U.S. House of Representatives’ Thursday approval of The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (H.R. 1599), which has been dubbed the Deny Americans the Right to Know, or “DARK,” Act by consumer…
By Experimental Vaccines Is a new era of vaccine-infused foods upon us? As Kenny Valenzuela covers in this video, according to an article entitled “Edible Vaccines” from Scientific American, printed in 2000, they state: One day children may get immunized by munching on foods instead…
By Real Farmacy All too often we rely on the state to tell us what to eat and which companies are ethical. And all too often the companies that the state deems ethical and safe are proven to be quite the opposite. The giant agricultural…
By Adam Klasfeld, Courthouse News Tribe Mediterranean Foods claims to make its hummus with chickpeas, tahini, spices and “love,” but the purportedly “All Natural” product also contains GMOs, a New Yorker alleges in a $5 million lawsuit. Sarah Magier, who says she has bought their…
Citizens of the United States are being denied the right to know what they are feeding their families. Despite the fact that 90% of American citizens want GMO labelling on their food, big business is doing everything it can to prevent people from accessing their…
Letter to the Editor by recent California Congressional candidate, James Hinton Where’s the Beef? Or, rather, where’s the beef coming from? Earlier this year, the World Trade Organization ruled that the United States was engaging in unfair trade practices by allowing country-of-origin labeling on red…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Back in 1992, when the U.S. FDA was in the process of approving GMOs, it came up with its lame “Statement of Policy – Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties” [1], with a section that apparently was designed to lull eaters…
By Kristen Anderson On Tuesday, US food companies and Monsanto sealed a critical victory as the House Agricultural Committee approved a measure that bans the mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods and prevents cities and counties from banning GMO crops within their jurisdictions. Several counties…
Systems Biology Group, International Center for Integrative Systems: GMO Soy Accumulates Formaldehyde & Disrupts Plant Metabolism, Suggests Peer-Reviewed Study, Calling For 21st Century Safety Standards Study Concludes FDA GMO Approval Process is Flawed, Outdated, and UnscientificNatural Blaze A new study published today in the peer-reviewed…
What a bag of the new GMO potatoes looks like as spotted in a New Orleans grocery store. PHOTO: GMO Free USA/Facebook By Nick Meyer Who really wants the new genetically modified potato in their shopping cart, anyway? Certainly not the consumers, who have been…
By Jefferey Jaxen The last year has seen more happen in conscious defiance of genetically modified food and its associated chemicals than perhaps the last 20 combined. After a slow start, humanity is awakened, activated and taking no prisoners. There are now blueprints in place…
Duo Neil Young & Institute for Responsible Technology’s Jeffrey Smith Take On Monsanto With Summer Tour By Jefferey Jaxen A longtime staple and founding father of the non-GMO movement, Jeffrey Smith is practically a household name for anyone that values food, farming and community empowerment….
By Jefferey Jaxen Somewhere along the line, it become profitable for corporations to engage in genetic damage. To alter the DNA and genetic code of our species has easily surpassed the tech boom of the 90’s. The food, medical and pharmaceutical industries share one massive,…
Natural Blaze The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) has denounced the federal government’s proposal to allow exceptions to Health Canada’s safety assessment of genetically modified (GM) foods. The new policy would accept a “low level presence” (LLP) of contamination in food imports from GM products…
