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89% of Americans want GM labeling
Senator John Edwards, Governor Bill Richardson, and Senator Chris Dodd have all gone on record in favor of mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods this week in Iowa. In response to questions during their campaign visits to Fairfield this week, each candidate stated he would support legislation to require the mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods if elected to be President of the United States.
New Study Shows Genetically Engineered Corn Could Pollute Aquatic Ecosystems
A study by an Indiana University environmental science professor and several colleagues suggests a widely planted variety of genetically engineered corn has the potential to harm aquatic ecosystems. The study is being published this week by the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
EU stands up to US pressure – unfazed by genetically modified 'Herculex'
European Commission documents show US pressure to ignore risk assessment concerns and push GMOs - including this GM Maize 'Herculex' of biotech company Pioneer - onto the European market
You Are What You Grow
The smorgasbord of incentives and disincentives built into the farm bill helps decide what happens on nearly half of the private land in America: whether it will be farmed or left wild, whether it will be managed to maximize productivity (and therefore doused with chemicals) or to promote environmental stewardship. The health of the American soil, the purity of its water, the biodiversity and the very look of its landscape owe in no small part to impenetrable titles, programs and formulae buried deep in the farm bill.
Keeping an eye on transgenic crops
Did you know that genetically modified, or "transgenic" crops are now commonplace on North American farms?
A Disaster in Search of Success: Bt Cotton in Global South
By 2004, 85% of farmers who used to grow Bt cotton had given up.
Organic standards under attack from GMOs?
EU Agricultural Ministers have decided to allow organic food accidentally contaminated with genetically modified organisms to be classified as organic as long as the GMO presence is less than 0.9%. Consumers would not be notified.
Why Monsanto loves ethanol
American farmers, spurred by ethanol frenzy, are planting the largest corn crop in more than 50 years.The demand is so high, reports Farm News, that seed companies are running out of the most popular varieties of corn seed.
If we want to save the planet, we need a five-year freeze on biofuels
Oil produced from plants sets up competition for food between cars and people. People - and the environment - will lose.
Secrecy, danger surround genetic engineering of grapes
Two groups of Cornell scientists are researching GE grapes in California. The head of one of them, Dr. Bruce Reisch, was willing to communicate with me, perhaps because he already completed his research in California. He said that they did their test in a “coastal county,” but would not say which one.
Glyphosate-resistant weeds more burden to growers’ pocketbooks
There’s no doubt glyphosate-resistant horseweed has set back conservation tillage efforts in Tennessee, says Steckel, who spoke on “The Impact of Glyphosate-Resistant Horseweed and Pigweed on Cotton Weed Management and Costs.”
USDA Gives Rubber-Stamp Market Approval to Genetically Engineered Rice Contaminating Food Supply
'Approval-by-Contamination' Policy Puts Consumers and Environment at Risk, Erodes Trust in U.S. Food. USDA Continues to Allow Bayer to Test Experimental Genetically Engineered Crops.
Another GE rice from Bayer contaminates EU food supplies
News that French authorities have detected another variety of illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice contained in US imports to the EU – the third illegal GE rice scandal in Europe in two months – should prompt urgent action on behalf of regulatory authorities.
Mexico rejects biotech corn planting
Mexico this week barred Monsanto Co. and other biotechnology companies from planting genetically engineered corn, rekindling fierce debate in that country over the technology.
Report highly critical of the Rockefeller and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations
Ten Reasons Why the Rockefeller and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundations' Alliance for Another Green Revolution Will Not Solve the Problems of Poverty and Hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa
EU countries to vote on measures to keep contaminated rice out of Europe
Environment Ministers and national food safety experts are meeting separately today to discuss how to deal with the contamination of rice from both the United States and China with illegal genetically modified (GM) experimental strains.
89% of Americans want GM labeling
