Truthout by: Mike Ludwig, t r u t h o u t | Report Just two weeks before the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) fully deregulated Monsanto’s Roundup Ready alfalfa, a senior soil scientist alerted the department about a newly discovered, microscopic pathogen found in high concentrations of Roundup Ready corn and soy that researchers… Read more »

AgWeb (link no longer available) Charles Johnson, Farm Journal National Editor Neither side had a clear edge when the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, the case involving GMO alfalfa (read the background on the case). In fact, the justices seemed to wonder why the case wound up before… Read more »

Law.com Tresa Baldas The organic marketplace is sprouting litigation over fake organic and natural products — some of them harmful — that are being sold to unwitting consumers. In Missouri, several class actions have been consolidated into one suit against the Aurora Organic Dairy Corp., which is accused of selling bogus organic milk that does… Read more »

In a village in India’s poorest state, Bihar, farmers are growing world record amounts of rice – with no GM, and no herbicide. Is this one solution to world food shortages? The Observer by John Vidal Sumant Kumar was overjoyed when he harvested his rice last year. There had been good rains in his village… Read more »

[For more on this subject, please read The Cornucopia Institute’s recently released report, Protecting Children’s Health: Choosing Organic Food to Avoid GMOs and Agricultural Chemicals.] The New York Times by Nicholas Bakalar Source: USDA Researchers have found that when children eat organic fruits and vegetables, the amount of pesticides in their bodies declines significantly. Most organophosphorus… Read more »

The Permaculture Research Institute by Dr Mae-Wan Ho A steep decline in human male sperm count concomitant with rise in testicular germ cell cancer, congenital malformations of the male reproductive tract and drop in serum testosterone levels, all pointing towards increasing exposure to glyphosate/Roundup herbicides during the past decades, now corroborated by lab findings. A fully… Read more »

Civil Eats By Aaron French If you’ve been listening to the news in the past month, you’ve probably heard quite a bit about biofuels. Simply put, they are fuel made out of plants – principally corn and soybeans in the United States. The new Obama administration is solidly in favor of increased biofuels production. Everyone… Read more »

Examiner.com Marketing chips and other processed snack foods, sodas, and sugary GMO cereals to registered dietitians is part of big business. Registered dietitians have to keep taking continuing education courses to keep their licenses. So who’s offering a lot of the required continuing education seminars? It’s not organic produce farmers. It’s the largest food manufacturers…. Read more »