Tag: Genetically modified organism

  • Another Victory for Seed Freedom

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    Dr. Vandana Shiva, a world-renowned advocate for seed freedom and opponent of GMO’s, explains why the Indian Court’s rejection of Monsanto’s climate resilient plant patent is so important to seed freedom: Monsanto tried to create an irrelevant and false opposition of natural production of plants versus production based on human intervention. This is false because…

  • Cracks in GMO Empire Beginning to Appear

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    When it comes to food policy, Monsanto always seems to be at the fore.  Will Fantle tells us why in EcoWatch: From the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to foreign policy, Congress, state governments, elections and the courts, the feverish politics of genetically modified foods (GMOs) have infected decision making and dramatically tilted policies towards the desires…

  • Key summit set in genetically modified food label fight

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    Published in The Hill by Ben Goad: Major players in the food industry have scheduled a crucial meeting for next week that could become a turning point in the regulatory battle over genetically modified foods. Challenges to the use of biotechnology have created an “unprecedented period of turmoil” for food producers, the Grocery Manufacturers Association…

  • Greenpeace exhorts FDA to stop misleading the public

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    Greenpeace calls on the FDA to stop feeding the public propaganda about the safety of eating GM products: ‘The FDA should stop feeding the public with propaganda. They are not truthful in saying that GMOs are safe for consumption. There is no scientific proof that GMOs pose no danger to human health and the environment.…

  • GMO Crops Mean More Herbicide, Not Less

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    By Beth Hoffman: Forbes Over the past 15 years, farmers around the world have planted ever larger tracts of genetically engineered crops. According to the USDA, in 2012 more than 93 percent of soy planted was “herbicide tolerant,” engineered to withstand herbicides (sold by the same companies who patent and sell the seeds).  Likewise, 73 percent of all corn…

  • Hawaiians fight back against GMO experiments

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    By John Upton The state of Hawaii has become a lot like the island of Dr. Moreau. Except that instead of Dr. Moreau — the mad scientist in H.G. Wells’s 1896 novel who vivisected animals into beast-people — Hawaii is ruled by the GMO industry. Shutterstock: The Island of Dr. Monsanto. Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, Syngenta, DuPont Pioneer, and BASF…

  • Human Genes Engineered Into Experimental GMO Rice Being Grown in Kansas

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    Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation today, a GM rice product made by biotechnology company Ventria Bioscience is currently…

  • New study finds nothing impressive about GM crop yields

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    By Laura Rance in the Winnipeg Free Press: The debate over genetically modified crops has often generated more heat than light. Some opponents claim the stuff is hazardous to our health, which seems unlikely, given that just about anything with vegetable oil or corn in it (and that’s just about everything these days) comes from…

  • Opposition to GMO’s Growing Around the World – Cont’d.

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    A reader pointed me to an article by Jon Entine,  published by the American Enterprise Institute, that questions the methodology used by Séralini to conclude that rats fed genetically modified corn developed grotesque tumors.  I’ve posted an excerpt from the article below.  You can find the entire article here. The study concluded, controversially, that rats fed corn genetically modified…

  • Opposition to GMO’s Growing Around the World

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    In a piece in bulatlat.com, Rhennie Cantiga cites toxicologist Dr. Romy Quijano: “There are numerous studies on the harmful effects of GMOs but pro-GMO scientists refuse to see this. Their blindness is not caused by GMO but by the money offered by big companies.” Cantiga goes on to further report: Citing hazards to health, environment and…