The “Monsanto Protection Act” Gets Extended?
The biotech rider dubbed the “Monsanto Protection Act” by food and agriculture activists has been extended by the House, advocacy group the Center for Food...
Tag: gmo
Monsanto puts $4.6 million into fight against GMO labeling
Monsanto has contributed $4.6 million to fight Initiative 522, the measure on this fall’s ballot that would require labeling of genetically engineered foods sold at...
Monsanto Decimates Their Credibility
Monsanto’s “Bt corn” is equipped with a gene from the soil bacteria Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), which produces Bt toxin—a pesticide that breaks open the stomach...
Monsanto: Corporate Rap Sheet
Once a controversial chemical company, Monsanto remade itself into an even more controversial agricultural biotechnology corporation that holds a dominant position in both herbicides and...
SunRidge Farms: Organic snacks, sustainable facility
Packed in snack bag in the car on my recent trip to Virginia were organic and Non-GMO snacks from SunRidge Farms. SunRidge sent me three...
The GMO labelling debate erupts in the US
US votes are getting ready for a food fight. When Washington voters decide Initiative 522 this northern autumn, they will do more than determine whether...
Hedge Funds, Insider Traders Begin Dumping Monsanto Stock as Reality of GMOs Sinks In Across Wall Street
Monsanto executives and insiders are dumping Monsanto stock in record volumes, sending the stock price spiraling downward. CEO Hugh Grant just sold off 40,000 shares...
GMO’s – The Most Dangerous Invention EVER
I just don’t understand how some humans can be so utterly stupid, so greedy, so crazed for short term profits, so corrupt for political or...
Obama Administration’s Secret Trade Agreements Threaten Food Safety and Promote GMOs
If you think the U.S. government is doing a sub-par job of keeping your food safe, brace yourself. You could soon be eating imported seafood,...
Oregon Governor Bans Canola Production Citing GMO Contamination Risks
Center for Food Safety Gov. John Kitzhaber (D-OR) signed a bill into law last week, banning commercial production of canola—also known as rapeseed—until 2019 inside...
Seed Freedom, Not GMOs, the Answer to Malnutrition and Hunger
What happens to the seed affects the web of life. When seed is living, regenerative and diverse, it feeds pollinators, soil organisms and animals—including humans....
Hedge Funds, Insider Traders Begin Dumping Monsanto Stock as Reality of GMOs Sinks In Across Wall Street
Monsanto executives and insiders are dumping Monsanto stock in record volumes, sending the stock price spiraling downward. CEO Hugh Grant just sold off 40,000 shares...
The GM safety dance: What’s rule and what’s real
In my initial foray in this series looking for facts behind the rhetoric on transgenic food, I reasoned that, since we can’t eliminate risk, we’d...
Genetically modified seed research: What’s locked and what isn’t
In the next few posts, I’m going to look at intellectual property rights in biotechnology and corporate influence over science. There are huge, philosophical issues...
CAPLAN: GMO Crops versus Traditional Plant Breeding
I got into a friendly discussion about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) with some friends on Facebook over the weekend. Readers urged me to write a...
How Genetically Engineered Foods Will Be Eradicated
We’re in really exciting times with regards to shifting the tide against genetically engineered (GE) foods and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). As you know, I...