The Summer issue of Cornucopia’s quarterly newsletter is now available online. Download it in PDF form: Cultivator Summer 2013 In it you’ll find: Cover story: State of Fever – Monsanto’s GMO Policy Infecting All Levels of Government Editorial: Profit Over Your Health News: Antibiotic Use in Orchards News: GMO in Infant Formula Feature: Citizen Lobbyists… Read more »
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Ben & Jerry’s to Go Glyphosate-Free, But Not Organic
Cornucopia’s Take: While Ben & Jerry’s is planning to stop using ingredients made with crops that have been desiccated with glyphosate, it changes nothing about the conventional milk upon which their ice cream is based. Conventional milk comes from cows fed GMO feed crops sprayed with toxic chemicals. The cows live in CAFOs, where they… Read more »
Arkansas Farmers Say Syngenta Tainted Grain Supply To Promote GMO
Arkansas Business by Jan Cottinham Source: John Lillis At least a dozen Arkansas farmers have joined hundreds of farmers in 19 other states in almost 800 lawsuits against Swiss seed maker Syngenta over genetically modified corn seed, a case that has been widely reported in the media. But one of the lawsuits, filed on behalf… Read more »
Kauai County Council Override Frees Way For GMO Bill
Huffington Post After a cunning political maneuver, the Kauai County Council has overridden Kauai Mayor Bernard Carvalho’s veto of Bill 2491, freeing the way for the GMO-related bill. Bill 2491, which passed a County Council vote on Oct. 16, will force agricultural companies to disclose when and where they spray pesticides, restrict spraying to a… Read more »
The Unregulation of Biotech Crops
The Scientist by Kerry Grens Source: Pictures of Money Genetic engineering—once a trigger for federal oversight—is now ushering some modified crops around scrutiny. Thirty years ago, scientists could have only dreamed about techniques to manipulate the genome that researchers have at their disposal these days. It should come as no surprise, then, that regulations governing… Read more »
Untested GMO Ingredient Sold Without FDA Approval
Cornucopia’s Take: Many highly processed plant-based foods are currently on the market masquerading as health food. Cornucopia believes people should have access to the healthiest and most nutritious food, and no matter what your dietary choice, purchasing authentic organic food should be of paramount importance. Eaters should also avoid hexane-extracted soy protein, found in many… Read more »
GMO Science Deniers: Monsanto and the USDA
Huff Post by Andrew Kimbrell Perhaps no group of science deniers has been more ridiculed than those who deny the science of evolution. What you may not know is that Monsanto and our United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are among them. That’s right: for decades, Monsanto and its enablers inside the USDA have denied… Read more »
GMO Labeling Measure Makes Colorado’s November Ballot
Washington Post By Niraj Chokshi A proposal to require the labeling of genetically modified food qualified for Colorado’s November ballot, the secretary of state’s office announced Wednesday. Backers of the measure, Proposition 105, submitted nearly 40,000 more valid signatures than the required 86,105. The placement of the measure on the ballot could bring a huge… Read more »
The Anti-GMO Labeling Crowd in California
The mis- and/or under-informed, the lackeys and the malevolent actors opposing the California GMO labeling ballot initiative are announcing their opposition to the food labeling measure. These organizations, who oppose you knowing what’s in your food, include: Agriculture California Farm Bureau Federation California Women for Agriculture California Grain and Feed Association California Seed Association Agricultural… Read more »
California GMO Labeling Initiative Headed for Ballot
Right to Know Campaign Turns in Nearly One Million Signatures California Right to Know Campaign SAN FRANCISCO — In victory rallies across state today, supporters celebrated as the California Right to Know campaign filed 971,126 signaturesfor the state’s first-ever ballot initiative to require labeling of genetically engineered foods. The huge signature haul, gathered in a… Read more »
