Tag: Washington

  • GMO Apple Comment Period Opens

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    A final, 30-day public comment period on USDA consideration of opening the United States to the growing and sales of genetically modified apples began Nov. 8 and will conclude on Dec. 9. The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is seeking public comment on its environmental assessment and plant risk assessment documents for the…

  • Take a minute to listen to David Bronner’s impassioned plea for GMO labeling. And then say “thanks”!

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    Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps, a fifth-generation family-owned business, believes consumers should have the right to know if their food, or other products, contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs). So the Bronner Family has donated $2 million so far to YES on I-522, the campaign to pass a GMO labeling initiative in Washington State. Please go to…

  • Food Industry Hiding Behind GMA in Labeling Fight

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    Others have asked, and I agree, if GMO’s are as benign as the industry claims they are, why not label foods and let the consumer decide?  Instead “companies like Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, General Mills and Kellogg’s have thrown down plenty of cash to defeat various initiatives across the country, and the story isn’t any different in…

  • Fishey Fleet Coast-to-Coast Tour Ends at Seattle HempFest

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    Yesterday, the Fishy Fleet coast-to-coast tour ended at the 22nd annual Seattle HempFest. East coast driver Shannon Spectra, wrote a song about GMOs on the 10 day trip. In this video, she sings, hoop dances and reads the Yes On 522 Dr Bronner’s label that will be available in stores nationwide next month. Fishy Tomato: A genetically modified tomato, or…

  • Anti-GMO Activists Launch Fishy Art Car Campaign

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    Fishy Art Cars set to launch anti-GMO campaign on August 5th reports Arin Greenwood at the Huffington Post: On August fish — sorry, make that August 5th — anti-GMO activists will be launching a nationwide demonstration with a visual punch. Part of that punch is a car topped by a fish tomato sculpture, nicknamed Fishy Tomato,…

  • 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…

  • NASA Flights Target How Pollution, Storms And Climate Mix

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    More than 250 scientists, engineers, and flight personnel are participating in the Studies of Emissions, Atmospheric Composition, Clouds and Climate Coupling by Regional Surveys (SEAC4RS) campaign. The project is sponsored by the Earth Science Division in the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. Brian Toon of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences…

  • Do Americans Have a Democratic Mission?

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    Excerpted from “Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century” At one end of the Reflecting Pool in Washington, D.C., in the expanse between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, the Bush administration authorized a memorial to World War II. This message, chiseled into a stone tablet, greets the visitor to the World War II…