Tag: GMO

  • No oversight of GM foods by FDA

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    Karma Allen of CNBC points out that if you want to know if a product is genetically modified – don’t ask the FDA: Last year $2.4 billion worth of products were sold with a label saying they do not contain ingredients from genetically modified organisms, but the claim wasn’t backed by any government regulatory agency.…

  • The Case for No GMO Patents

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    Friday, 14 June 2013 11:49By Tony Pereira, Truthout | Op-Ed (Photo: CT Senate Democrats / Flickr)The June 13, 2013 Supreme Court decision that human genes are not patentable should logically be the first step in reversing three decades of decisions that flouted the previously general understanding that Section 101 of Title 35 U.S.C. prohibited patenting of living organisms. In…

  • GM Foods Cont.’d

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    I’d like to know why Americans aren’t more skeptical of these GM crops. Why we are so quick to accept studies, put out by the industry, that assure us they’re safe to eat? In the industrialized world our population is the fatest and sickest. Our life expectancy, in some demographics, is decreasing. Allergies are going…

  • Another State to Require Labeling of GMO Foods

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    Steve Mistler reports on the status of a new bill, requiring the labeling of GMO products, making its way through the Main State Legislature.  The emphasis at the end of the post  is mine.  The fact that the FDA would “assume” the products are safe until proven otherwise and that the industry can dictate the…

  • GMO Foods and US World Supremacy

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    This is an interesting and, for some, possibly controversial article by Odilim Enwegbara in Leadership, a Nigerian publication.  He believes GMO Foods are synonymous with what he refers to as the “rigorous pursuit of American ascendancy,” and posits that like his oil monopoly, “Rockefeller’s agribusiness…was built on vertical integration [so] that four giant chemical multinational companies – Monsanto,…

  • Connecticut Passes First State GMO Labeling Legislation in US

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    It turns out CT is a still a revolutionary state on a number of fronts. That includes passage of the first state legislation in the county to require labeling genetically modified organisms (GMO) as ingredients, a monumental victory for the organic and pure food community. The bill, passed by the Senate on Saturday and Monday…

  • GMO Foods Cont’d

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    Keith Kloor argues in Discover magazine that “the worst misinformation and myths about genetically modified foods has spread from the anti-GMO fringes to the mainstream.”  He feels that the anti-GMO movement is based on fear and not science.  To back up his view he quotes an article published in Scientific American by Pam Ronald, a University of…

  • Top Thirteen Reasons to Avoid GMO Foods

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    Dr. Chandra’s article in today’s The Canadian clearly lays out what GMO foods are , why they are not safe for consumption and what the implications are for the environment: Genetically modified food or GMO is the food stuff prepared from genetically altered organisms, generally from modified crops by altering the DNA by means of…

  • Say No to GMO

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    Corporations will always try to cross the line, that is their nature. But government institutions are around to keep them from doing so. At least, that’s the way the system’s supposed to work. You wouldn’t know it from the kinds of stuff that GMO developer Monsanto has pulled off in just the past few months…

  • Up to 2 million in the U.S. and in over 50 countries march against Monsanto

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    Up to  two million people marched in protest against seed giant Monsanto in hundreds of rallies across the U.S. and in more than 50 other countries on Saturday to call attention to the dangers posed by genetically modified food and the food giants that produce it.  Founder and organizer Tami Canal said protests were held…