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A new report asks: Should the U.S. State Department be promoting GMO foods around the world?
The U.S. State Department has been aggressively pushing GMO crops on countries around the world, using embassy connections to try to sway governments to adopt policies friendly to giant biotech firms like Missouri-based Monsanto, according to a new report by Food and Water Watch.
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Tags: · Africa, Asia, biotech, Biotech Ambassadors, Europe, Food & Water Watch, GE foods, genetic modification, GMOs, Monsanto, seed companies, U.S., U.S. State Department
Federal bill would require labeling of genetically modified foods
The fight to label GMO foods has arrived in Washington D.C. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR) introduced a bill Wednesday that would mandate labeling for foods that have been genetically engineered. If passed, the U.S. would join 64 other countries around the world that require labeling.
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Tags: · Barbara Boxer, corn, federal law, GE foods, GMOs, labeling, Pete DeFazio, soy, sugar beets
Happy Earth Day 2013 . . . Americans are turning activist
I remember 2007, when we started this website. People were tip-toeing toward greener behaviors. Activists were writing kids’ books explaining the greenhouse effect and urging tots to turn off the faucet while brushing their teeth. Scholars had assembled tomes, politely pointing out that we’d be running out of oil pretty soon. How things have changed on this Earth Day 2013…
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Climate Change, Earth Day, food system, Fossil Fuels, GMOs, green incentives, Keystone XL pipeline, Plastic bottles, pollution, Recycle & Reuse
Will Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s kill the genetically modified salmon?
The GE-salmon known variously as the AquAdvantage salmon and a “frankenfish” has been swimming toward approval, but is currently bogged in a heated public comment period. Learn more about the tug-and-pull over what would be the first genetically modified animal to debut on your plate.
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Tags: · AquAdvantage, Atlantic salmon, FDA, frankenfish, GE foods, genetic modification, GMOs, labeling, Pacific salmon, safety, Salmon
GMO farming produces a bumper crop of weeds
GMO crop/pesticide farming kills the weeds. And then the weeds take their revenge. A new survey shows American farmers are being blighted by superweeds…
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Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, GMOs, monocultures, Monsanto, super weeds, weed resistance
Some consumers saying cheerio to Cheerios for supporting GMO foods
Food activists who support GMO labeling have been letting General Mills know that they don’t appreciate the corporation’s recent contributions toward defeating the labeling ballot initiative in California.
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Tags: · Cheerios, Facebook, General Mills, genetic modification, GMOs, Prop 37
Scientists criticize French study of GMO corn
September 20th, 2012 · No Comments
Research by French scientists showing that rats fed GMO corn developed tumors and died prematurely has prompted the French government to continue its ban on genetically engineered crops.
But the study came in for criticism from scientists in other countries shortly after it was published Wednesday in Food and Chemical Toxicology.
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Tags: · corn, Food/Drink, French study, GE, GMOs, health, Monsanto, Rats
Food Inc.: Eat, drink and be wary
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Food, Inc. could easily have turned our stomachs upside down. There’s lots of raw material – cows mired in manure, pig carcasses whacked about on conveyor belts, immobilized chickens locked in dark crowded coops – to make the point about how mass food production can be an unhealthy affair.
The film does dish up selected gross-out shots of slabs of beef, downer cows, dead hens and grimy CAFOs. There are a few gasp-aloud moments, such as when chickens are beheaded (inexplicably, this hard-to-watch scene is on a small sustainable farm operation). But the beauty of this wonderful documentary lies in its restraint. Rather than beating up corporate culprits Smithfield, Cargill and others with the big stick of blood and guts, Food Inc. strolls confidently and methodically into our packaged food wonderland, armed with words, telling anecdotes and revelations of corruption and greed that make its case more compelling.
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Tags: · agricultural-industrial complex, Cargill, corporate agriculture, documentaries, environmental movies, Eric Schlosser, FOOD INC., GMOs, grocery stores, health food, high fructose corn syrup, Michael Pollan, Monsanto, Robert Kenner, Smithfield, sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, Tyson
Toxicologists say media, activists overstate chemical threats
From Green Right Now Reports:
As toxicologists see it, our chemical world is neither as dangerous as portrayed by the mainstream media and environmental groups, nor as safe as the American Chemistry Council and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) would have us believe.
That’s according to a survey of 937 members of the Society of Toxicology in early 2009. The survey, released Thursday, was administered by Harris Interactive and conducted by the nonprofit Statistical Assessment Service (STATS) and Center for Health and Risk Communication at George Mason University.
“This survey suggests that the public doesn’t get a full and balanced picture of chemical risk,” said Dr. Robert Lichter, the survey director.
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Tags: · bisphenol-A, chemicals, genetically modified organisms, GMOs, high fructose corn syrup, hormone disruptors, Organic Food, organic products, pesticides, phthalates, Teflon
Grape news: researchers develop another pesticide-resistant food
By Barbara Kessler
Apparently conventional farming techniques aren’t too grape for vineyard keepers in the Midwest. Their tender fruit withers when it comes into contact with a commonly used herbicide, called 2, 4-D that is spread on corn and other field crops to control broadleaf weeds.
So researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new grape that can stand up to 2, 4-D (or R2D2 if you’re playing Star Wars).
This new improved grape – imperially named “Improved Chancellor” — does not die when confronted with 2, 4-D (the D stands for Dicholorophenoxyacetic) because it has been genetically altered with an added bacterium that breaks down the herbicide, according to an Environmental News Service release.
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Tags: · corn, Dichlorophenoxyacetic, GMOs, grapes, Improved Chancellor grape, Organic Food
Ten reasons to buy local food
October 14th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Brenton Johnson, who hosted a recent local-food gourmet dinner on his organic farm, Johnson’s Backyard Garden, just east of Austin, Texas, represents a new breed of young, organic farmer whose philosophy is to live in harmony with the land and bring back the sustainable ways. Naturally (no pun intended), he advocates buying local food.
 In between tending his turnips and perusing the potatoes, Brenton penned this wise, authoritative list, which he agreed to share with us. (We couldn’t write it any better.)
This isn’t just about helping the local farmer, it’s about preserving our planet (and eatin’ better, too!).
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Tags: · gardening, genetic diversity, GMOs, heirloom produce, Johnson's Backyard Garden, Local Food, Locavore, Organic Food
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