Tag: GMO

E.U. To Allow Sale Of Monsanto’s GMO Roundup Ready Soybeans, Shocks Millions Who Opposed The Move

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E.U. To Allow Sale Of Monsanto’s GMO Roundup Ready Soybeans, Shocks Millions Who Opposed The Move
Betrayal at the E.U.: Commission Approves Sale Of Monsanto’s Gmo Roundup Ready Soybeans In a surprise move the E.U. Commission has approved the sale of Monsanto’s genetically modified soybeans, after extended debate over the use of the company’s signature herbicide Roundup delayed approval for months. Environmental groups and food safety organizations expressed their dismay as the company continued to roll over governmental bodies around the world in order to push its products on people who don’t want them.… Read the rest

Glyphosate Battle Is Over In The EU, But The War Continues: EU To Allow Glyphosate Sales For 18 More Months

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Glyphosate Battle Is Over In The EU, But The War Continues: EU To Allow Glyphosate Sales For 18 More Months
Euros Grant Stay Of Execution For Glyphosate: Sales To Be Allowed To Continue For 18 More Months, Sure To Remain A Contentious Issue The European commission has granted glyphosate a stay of execution for another 18 months, as the member states failed again to vote on an extension of the permit allowing it to be sold across the Union. Health Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis said that the extension would be granted in order to allow time for further studies to examine claims that it is a carcinogen and dangerous for use as both an industrial weed-killer as well as a consumer product.… Read the rest

Del Monte, Nestle Join Ranks Of Other Major Food Companies Pledging To Switch To Non-GMO Ingredients

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Del Monte, Nestle Join Ranks Of Other Major Food Companies Pledging To Switch To Non-GMO Ingredients
The People Have Spoken: Del Monte and Nestle to Join Dozens Of Major Food Corps In Going Non-GMO For all the talk the elites generate about “market forces” and “the invisible hand” and how these things are basically like forces of nature–despite the manifest facts of the system being fiercely protected and rigged in favor of said elites–there are actually moments where it works as advertised in our high school textbooks.… Read the rest

Nebraska Farmers Stricken With Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma File Lawsuit Against Monsanto For Lack Of Labeling On Roundup

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Nebraska Farmers Stricken With Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma File Lawsuit Against Monsanto For Lack Of Labeling On Roundup
Nebraska The Latest Battleground In The War Against Glyphosate: Four Farmers Sue Monsanto Over Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma-Roundup Link The latest salvo in the war against glyphosate has come straight out of corn country, the agricultural heartland of the US, where most people are expected to lean pro-pesticide, pro-herbicide, pro-whatever it takes to increase crop yield in the increasingly challenging life and career of a farmer.… Read the rest

Dannon Yogurt To Go GMO Free By 2018; Eliminating GMO Feed From Milk Source Cows’ Feed

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Dannon Yogurt To Go GMO Free By 2018; Eliminating GMO Feed From Milk Source Cows’ Feed
Dannon The Latest Company To Announce It’s Going GMO-Free In The Wake Of Vermont Passage Of GMO Labeling Law Sometimes change is slow and incremental, and sometimes it comes down like a hammer on the unsuspecting. And although it usually seems like it’s the good changes that take forever to be implemented, that is not the case in the wake of Vermont’s recent passage of its first-in-the-nation GMO labeling law.… Read the rest

Controversial New Technology Allows Scientists To Doctor DNA Strands, May Sidestep GMO Regs

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Controversial New Technology Allows Scientists To Doctor DNA Strands, May Sidestep GMO Regs
Genetically Modified Franken-Fungus That Doesn’t Go Brown Stirs Controversy A genetically-modified mushroom created by scientists at Penn State University is at the center of controversy due to the use of new technology to modify the fungus’ genes directly, without injecting the DNA of other organisms into it. The ease with which the new technology, called CRISPR can rewrite gene code and the way the method will fit into the framework of GMO regulations is at the heart of the problem.… Read the rest

What Won’t They Think Of Next? Monsanto Scientists Find A Way To Alter Insects Rna By Spraying Plants

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What Won’t They Think Of Next? Monsanto Scientists Find A Way To Alter Insects Rna By Spraying Plants
Monsanto Using RNA Spray To Alter The Genetic Makeup Of Insects, Seeks To Get Plants To Do The Same On Their Own. File under: Jesus Christ, here they go again. The evil geniuses at Monsanto have come up with yet another novel way to disrupt life as it has existed on this pale blue ball for billions of years, this time not by creating a laboratory-birthed crop seed, but by actually altering the genetic makeup of pest insects through a spray applied to crops.… Read the rest

Genetically Modified Canola Produces More Omega-3s–But Causes Deformities In Butterflies

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Genetically Modified Canola Produces More Omega-3s–But Causes Deformities In Butterflies
GMO Canola And Camelina Produces Alarming Deformities In Butterflies. Its getting harder and harder to keep up with all the chemicals that are sprayed on our food sources. Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide has been in the news lately as scientists learn more and more about the damage it can do to humans and the ecosystem as a whole. Same with pesticides; the more we learn about neonicotinoids and the harm they do to pollinating insects, birds, and humans, the more people are sounding the alarm around the world.… Read the rest

Deaths From Antibiotic-Resistant “Superbugs” Will Outpace Cancer Deaths By 2050

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Deaths From Antibiotic-Resistant “Superbugs” Will Outpace Cancer Deaths By 2050
The Coming Superbug Attack: Deaths From Antibiotic-Resistant Infections To Outpace Cancer Deaths By 2050 O, antibiotics, how we loved thee. And how we mourn thee. There was a time when we thought there was nothing they couldn’t do: people would demand them for head colds–despite the fact that rhinovirus is unaffected by them–and doctors handed them out like candy. But the sad fact is in our demand for antibiotics, we have pretty much loved them to death.… Read the rest

Monsanto: Lower Profits, Lower Earnings–High Pressure From Consumers Works!

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Monsanto: Lower Profits, Lower Earnings–High Pressure From Consumers Works!
Fighting Back Against The Machine: Monsanto Earnings Report Shows Lower Profits This is a tough world in which to try to bring up a child with good moral values. It seems like the moral of every story these days always ends up with some reprehensible jackass suffering no consequences for bad behavior. Millionaire rich kids get a slap on the wrist when they run afoul of the law, corporate polluters the same.… Read the rest