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 »
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Rice Yields Skyrocket Thanks to Changes in Management Practices
Cornucopia’s Take: While Big Ag continues to bill toxic pesticides, herbicides, and patented GMO seeds as the only way to feed the planet, organic methods have made headlines in India and worldwide for producing giant yields. India’s rice revolution The Guardian by John Vidal in Bihar, India Source: Yamanaka Tamaki Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he… Read more »
Majority of EU Nations Seek Opt-out from Growing GM Crops
Reuters by Barbara Lewis © European Union 2015 – European Parliament Nineteen EU member states have requested opt-outs for all or part of their territory from cultivation of a Monsanto genetically-modified crop, which is authorized to be grown in the European Union, the European Commission said on Sunday. Under a law signed in March, individual… Read more »
Go Organic: Here’s Why
By Charlotte Vallaeys For babies and children, whose brains are rapidly developing, it is especially important to buy organic versions of foods whose counterparts are commonly sprayed with neurotoxic pesticides or fumigants. Even on relatively “clean” conventional foods, if pesticides were used someone was exposed to them – if not you or your child then… Read more »
Biotech Group Spent Historic $7M Against Maui GMO Farming Moratorium
Now global seed companies Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences are spending more on a legal challenge to the voter-approved initiative. Civil Beat by Anita Hofschneider Hawaiian Corn FieldSource: David Casteel A biotech group backed by Monsanto and Dow AgroSciences spent a record-breaking $7 million in its failed attempt to defeat a Maui County voter initiative that will… Read more »
The Fallacy Revealed: GMO Yields Have Not Outpaced Conventional
Cornucopia’s Take: GMO seed, developed and marketed to increase yields and lower pesticide applications, are not out-performing conventional crops in Europe, nor are they lowering pesticide usage. We are left to wonder what would happen if journalists began to ask what is possible if research and development worked on organic production rather than chemical/GMO production…. Read more »
Wildfires Rage at New Mexican Organic Meetings
Farmers, Consumers and Public Interest Groups Square off Against Corporate Interests ALBUQUERQUE, NM: Passions flared at the semiannual meeting of the USDA’s National Organic Standards Board (NOSB), last week in Albuquerque, New Mexico, as the federal advisory panel approved a number of synthetic ingredients for use in organics, over the objection of the majority of… Read more »
Lithuania Bans GM Crops as Biotech Industry Loses More Ground
Sustainable Pulse Source: Artiom P Lithuanian Agriculture Minister, Virginija Baltraitienė, announced last week that the Baltic country has demanded an EU opt-out regarding the growing of genetically modified (GM) crops. Baltraitienė stated; “So far we are not ready. We have to choose whether to promote organic production, or allow GMOs. Our strategy is to increase the number… Read more »
Is Your Pet’s Food as Safe as You Think?
5 Tips to Keeping Your Furry Friend Healthy and Well Fed By Linley Dixon, PhD In recent years, anecdotal reports by veterinarians suggest there has been a spike in serious intestinal maladies in pets. Americans spend about $22 billion on pet food each year. Source: DollarPhotoClub.com Pet food quality varies significantly and all too often includes dangerous… Read more »
Indefinite Moratorium on GM Field Trials Recommended (in India)
Supreme Court’s expert panel of scientists for ban on herbicide tolerant crops for India Down to Earth By Latha Jishnu A committee of technical experts comprising scientists from top public research laboratories and academic institutions set up by the Supreme Court last year has changed the 10-year moratorium on field trials of Bt transgenics that… Read more »
