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Posted on 4:12 pm December 23, 2011
NPR Show on Labeling GMOs
On Tuesday January 3rd, Diane Rehm will be dedicating her show to the topic of labeling genetically engineered foods. This is a great opportunity for listeners to be introduced to the issue, and to ask questions. It is a live call in show and the call-in number is 1-800-433-8850. Please tell all your friends!
The show plays at 10am EST January 3, 2012
Find a station near you: http://www.npr.org/stations/
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Posted on 5:13 pm November 14, 2011
Review of Roundup Herbicide Health Effects as reported by Antoniou et al., (2011)
Below is a list of the potential health disorders that have been observed from exposure to the herbicide glyphosate as documented by the report of Antoniou et al., 2011. Below, each potential health disorder is presented separately, along with “quotes” extracted from their report and with the respective citations of refereed publications provided by the authors.
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NJ Jaeger is a veteran editor and writer for social issues, green initiatives and food policy sites. She has contributed to dozens of feature stories, and covered other beats including Olympic sports, beauty and business. Posted on 10:16 am October 3, 2011
Genetically Engineered Food – An Overview
Sept 2011 | Food and Water Watch | Genetically Engineered Food
Since the 1996 introduction of genetically engineered crops – crops that are altered with inserted genetic material to exhibit a desired trait – U.S. agribusiness and policymakers have embraced biotechnology as a silver bullet for the food system. The industry promotes biotechnology as an environmentally responsible, profitable way for farmers to feed a growing global population.
But despite all the hype, genetically engineered plants and animals do not perform better than their traditional counterparts, and they raise a slew of health, environmental and ethical concerns. The next wave of the “Green Revolution” promises increased technology to ensure food security and mitigate the effects of climate change, but it has not delivered. The only people who are experiencing security are the few, massive corporations that are controlling the food system at every step and seeing large profit margins.
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NJ Jaeger is a veteran editor and writer for social issues, green initiatives and food policy sites. She has contributed to dozens of feature stories, and covered other beats including Olympic sports, beauty and business. Posted on 10:33 am September 17, 2011
How Are Genetically Engineered Crops Affecting Foods?
How Are Genetically Engineered Crops Affecting Foods?
Rose Aguilar | Your Call, 16 September 2011
NOTE: This article accompanies a great audio interview with Eric Holt-Gimenez, executive director of Food First, Ignacio Chapela, associate professor of microbial ecology at UC Berkeley, Mike Ludwig, reporter who covers the biotech industry, and Jim Gerritsen, farmer in northern Maine and one of the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Monsanto. Access the audio at the link with this article.
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Posted on 1:52 pm September 12, 2011
YOU HAVE THE RIGHT 2 KNOW WHAT’S IN YOUR FOOD
Plant Yourself at the TX State Capital Sun. Oct 2 For the Rally For Real Food And Pressure the Government About the Lack of Labeling of Genetically Engineered Foods
AUSTIN – The “Rally For Real Food” kicks off October 2, 2011 on the South Steps of the Texas State Capital and will pressure the government about Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) food labeling. The “Rally For Real Food” group includes: Robert Bard, a Jeffrey Smith Trained Non‐GMO Speaker; Doug Foreman, a Non‐GMO Advocate & Beanitos CEO; the Right2Know March and Representative Donna Howard.
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NJ Jaeger is a veteran editor and writer for social issues, green initiatives and food policy sites. She has contributed to dozens of feature stories, and covered other beats including Olympic sports, beauty and business. Posted on 7:20 pm August 3, 2011
AGRI-MARK/CABOT “rBST-FREE” MISREPRESENTATIONS DEMAND CONSUMER EDUCATION
Smith praises Vermont Attorney General Sorrell’s statement, “There is no excuse for shading the truth about rBST or any other aspect of our food supply.” Yet under U.S. law, Smith says, genetically engineered organisms (GMOs) do not need to be listed on ingredient labels.
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Posted on 4:12 pm
The Great Food Labelling Debate
by Lucy Sharratt Co-ordinator, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
First Posted: Jul 26 2011 08:05 AMAfter 16 years of bitter negotiations, the world reaches agreement on the labelling of genetically modified foods.
While consumer groups around the world celebrated the July 5 United Nations Codex agreement on labelling genetically modified (GM) foods, the biotechnology industry argued that the final document achieved nothing new. In fact, industry came close to denying there was an agreement at all. After 16 years of negotiations, these two radically different responses to the final document can be explained by the high stakes involved, arguably the future of global markets for GM foods.
It is voluntary and now technically “guidance” rather than “guidelines,” but the new international agreement on labelling GM foods, two decades in the making, was bitterly fought over. The biotechnology industry, with its initial power base in the U.S. and Canada, is adamantly opposed to labelling, afraid that, given the choice, consumers around the world will reject GM foods, as seen in Europe. The stakes were so high that the U.S. government – with varying support from Canada and a handful of food exporting countries, including Argentina and Australia – continually tried to stop the Codex negotiations altogether. After two decades, however, food safety regulators from around the world finally agreed upon a few words that have huge global import.
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NJ Jaeger is a veteran editor and writer for social issues, green initiatives and food policy sites. She has contributed to dozens of feature stories, and covered other beats including Olympic sports, beauty and business. Posted on 2:43 pm July 26, 2011
Wafting poison makes fertile ground for suit in Stearns County Court Rules Pesticide Drifting Onto Organic Farm Constitutes Trespass
Star Tribune, July 25, 2011 | Josephine Marcotty – Improperly applied pesticides repeatedly drift over from neighboring farms, often with dire consequences for Johnson. But now, thanks to a new court ruling, he and other farmers can sue to recover their losses.
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Posted on 2:05 pm July 21, 2011
White House pact with industry to push GM crops
ENewspf.com
Thursday, 21 July 2011
http://www.enewspf.com/latest-news/science-a-environmental/25563-white-house-pactwith-industry-In an effort to boost exports, the Obama White House has entered into a joint venture with the agricultural biotechnology industry to remove barriers to the spread of genetically engineered (GE) crops, even on national wildlife refuges, according to documents posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). Today, PEER sued the White House Trade Representative, Office of Management & Budget (OMB) and the State Department to force release of documents detailing their partnership with industry.
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Posted on 1:36 pm July 14, 2011
Welcome to the Age of GMO Industry Self-Regulation
Tom Philpott
Mother Jones, July 14 2011
http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/07/welcome-age-gmo-industry-self-regulationAs I reported last week, the USDA’s recent surprise decision not to regulate genetically modified bluegrass poked yet more holes in an already-porous regime for overseeing GM crops—essentially to the point of regulatory collapse.
There were a few important strands I wasn’t able to wrestle into the story. The main one is an odd letter that USDA secretary Tom Vilksack sent Scotts Miracle-Gro as an addendum to the agency’s response to Scott’s GM bluegrass petition. Vilsack’s letter, dated July 1, acknowledges concerns that GM bluegrass will contaminate non-GM bluegrass—that is, that the Roundup Ready gene will move through wind-blown pollen and work its way into non-modified varieties. This is the process known as “gene flow,” and it has already been well-established for GM corn and other modified crops.
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