Just why is Big Food Fighting So Hard, and Paying So Much Money, to Prevent Labeling GMOs? Because They Are Toxic and Nobody Wants Them? Yes, That Could Be It!
Why is NOT Labeling GMOs So Important? What Are Pepsi, Coca-Cola Got Hiding?
Category: Food/GMOs
Pushback Works: 4 Food Giants Join General Mills, Campbell’s to Label GMOs
. “The GMO food giants aren’t used to losing, but they were just knocked on their collective keister by the state of Vermont,” said Paul Burns, the Executive Director of Vermont’s largest consumer and environmental organization. “Consumers across the country will no doubt take notice.”
PORTLAND TO SUE MONSANTO OVER PCBS
City of Portland to join six other west coast cities in suing Monsanto over PCB clean-up
The city of Portland has announced plans to sue chemical maker Monsanto for costs accrued cleaning up PCBs from contaminated waterways in the Oregon city. PCBs, or polychlolrinated biphenyls are a highly toxic group of chemicals that were manufactured by the company for decades, and which threaten human health as well as that of fauna and flora.… Read the rest
Court: Grocery Manufacturer’s Association Guilty of Illegal Fundraising, Efforts to Defeat CA GMO Labeling Referendum
Grocery Manufacturer’s Association, a GMO Support Group, Broke Campaign Finance Laws in Fight Against Labeling
Take Action Now: Compel GMO Labeling: http://TinyURL.com/AllowGMOLabels
The enormous, and enormously powerful Grocery Manufacturer’s Association (GMA), a staunchly pro-GMO group. broke multiple campaign finance laws in its fight against GMO labeling, according to a Washington court. This deals yet another setback to the forces of Big Biotech and Big Agribize following Tuesday’s defeat of the Senate version of the mis named Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act (SAFE Act), which would have forbidden states from requiring the labeling of GMO foods.… Read the rest
GMO Labeling Blocked by Congress, Coming Soon, Won’t Raise Prices!
GMO Corporate claims that labeling GMO food will raise prices are lies. The recent de0railing of Congressional efforts to prevent labeling of GMOs means that we just might have GMO labeling in the US at some time in the near future. And it won’t raise prices at all!
Tell Decision Makers you demand the right to know what you are eating!@… Read the rest
Are We (M)eating Ourselves Out of House and Home Through Factory Animal Agriculture?
“Meat production, globally, is an environmental disaster now,” said Ken Cook, president of Environmental Working Group. “If we try and expand production to reach 9 billion people by 2050, it will be a complete and unthinkable disaster. The problem is that our focus is on making the meat as cheap as possible.”
Deny Americans the Right to Know Act Pushed Off Senate Floor by ONE VOTE – Pushback is Vital!
The battle is won; the war continues. But one thing is clear: PUSH BACK WORKS!
Here is the Action Item that did it: http://tinyurl.com/AllowGMOLabels - use this updated action to send a "Thank you!" to your Senators now.
SENATE AG COMMITTEE APPROVES S.A.F.E. ACT (Which is Really the DARK Act)
Monsanto states on its website: “There is no need for, or value in testing the safety of GM foods in humans.”
No value, indeed, if you are a giant multi-billion dollar conglomerate bent on taking over the world’s food supply so you can profit from it.
But in reality the SAFE Act is not even about the well-known dangers of eating GMO foods, nor the dangers of allowing the biotech companies to continue to run roughshod across the entire planet, spreading their poison and lies.
No. This bill answers a simple question: do we have a right to know what we are putting into our bodies?
Fourteen senators answered in the negative.
Cornell University Accused of Accepting GMO-tainted Funding to Fromote a Pro-GMO Stance
Why is CAS even pretending to any kind of academic neutrality, or scientific objectivity? The goals are clear: continue flogging the misleading and misguided science pumped out by the pro-GMO corporations, using their cash to indoctrinate a new generation of true believers, who will continue to send us down the road to a poisoned, unlivable planet incapable of sustaining natural life as it has done for countless millennia.
Cutting Fresh Fruit/Veggie Cost $1.50/Day to Save 200,000 Lives Over 15 Years Say Tufts, UK Researchers.
All told, by reducing the prices of fresh fruits and vegetables 30 percent and making the necessary foods just cheaper by just $1.50 per day, we could save the lives of 200,000 people in just 15 years time.