GMOs

FDA Approves Genetically Engineered Potato

January 20, 2016 Just Label It, www.nationofchange.org Educate! FDA, Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Just Label It for Nation of Change - The new GMO potato cleared this week by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for sale in the U.S. is yet another in the long list of reasons why consumers deserve an on-package, federal mandatory labeling system, according to Just Label It. The FDA’s decision means that the Idaho company responsible for the new GMO potato, J.R. Simplot, will be able to bring the product to market next year, assuming it gets final approval from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Organic Farmers Score Victory In ‘David And Goliath’ GMO Fight

January 6, 2016 Nadia Prupis, www.commondreams.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto, Oregon, Pesticides

By Nadia Prupis for Common Dreams - Jackson County, Oregon wins new protections against cultivation of genetically engineered crops. Organic farmers are racking up new victories in the fight against 'franken-food', as a growing number of counties line up to bar genetically engineered (GE) crop cultivation throughout the country. A federal judge in Jackson County, Oregon recently upheld a consent decree that designates the region a "GE-free zone," a ruling which officially protects the decree from appeal, granting new protections to farmers, consumers, and the environment.

Documents Reveal Canadian Teenager Target Of GMO Lobby

December 23, 2015 Allison Vuchnich, www.globalnews.ca Educate! Canada, GMOs

By Allison Vuchnich for Global News - At the time, Rachel Parent was 14 years old and had a growing social media following. Her message to label genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in food was attracting attention – including from those who promote GMOs in the U.S. Their internal emails reveal they were discussing how they could counter her message. “To think at this point, I was on their radar and I had no clue,” Parent said. The strategizing was revealed in emails, along with thousands of other pages of documents released in a freedom of information request by US Right to Know(USRTK), a non-profit advocacy group funded by the Organic Consumers Association concerned with the safety of GMOs.

GMO Chestnuts? Ho Ho No!

December 15, 2015 Staff, www.globaljusticeecology.org Resist! Food and Agriculture, GE Trees, GMOs

By Global Justice Ecology Project. New York (15 December 2015)– In the midst of the holiday season, while thoughts turn to roasting chestnuts, a handful of scientists are working to genetically engineer the iconic American chestnut tree which they hope to release throughout the Appalachians and the Eastern US. Indigenous Peoples, scientists and others are raising alarms about the risks of these trees, cautioning about their dangerous impacts to forests, wildlife and human health [1]. Due to these unassessed risks, they warn, GE chestnuts, or any GE trees trees should never be approved for planting. But GE tree scientists appear less worried about risks than about public relations.

Big Food Aims To Kill Mandatory GMO Labels Before Year’s End

December 10, 2015 Jason Best, www.takepart.com Educate! Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Jason Best for Take Part - There's no doubt about it: The food industry is counting on you to be distracted at this busy time of year, what with all those visions of sugarplums, etc., as it tries to make a stealth end run to quash any effort to require the labeling of foods that contain genetically modified ingredients. That presumes, of course, that you want food made with GMOs to be labeled, but the odds are pretty heavy that you do: After all, just last week yet another poll confirmed that a whopping nine out of 10 Americans think the federal government should come up with a GMO label and require food makers to use it.

EPA Bans Highly Toxic GMO Pesticide

November 29, 2015 Ocean Robbins, www.foodrevolution.org Resist! EPA, Food Safety, GMOs, Herbicides, Pesticides

By Ocean Robbins for the Food Revolution Network. In phenomenal and ground-breaking news, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has just announced that it is revoking the registration of the controversial chemical Enlist Duo. This is a huge set-back for the GMO industry. Enlist Duo is the super-toxic herbicide (a combination of glyphosate and 2,4-D) that is designed to be sprayed on Dow Chemical’s genetically-engineered corn (and soy), widely referred to in the organic industry as Agent Orange Corn. The EPA recognized that the two active ingredients in Enlist Duo could result in greater toxicity to non-target plants, and issued a ruling that may effectively end the threat of Agent Orange Corn. But, at the very same time, Monsanto, Dow, and their special interest friends have unveiled a new, sneaky approach to hide information about GMOs. Recognizing that the “Deny Americans Right to Know (DARK)” act that they pushed through the U.S. Congress is likely dead in the Senate, they're offering a "compromise" piece of legislation. It would require GMO labels on food products, but ONLY if they're hidden in QR codes (which take a smart phone to decipher) on the back of a product.

Newsletter: Movement Mobilizes To Stop The TPP

November 22, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Corporatism, Environment, Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Healthcare, Jobs, TPP, Trade, Trade Deal, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Now that the TPP is public, opposition is rising as we see the TPPis actually worse than expected. In an interview with Jaisal Noor of The Real News, Margaret Flowers explains how the TPP was a victory for the corporations on issue after issue, including reducing wages and worker rights, undermining environmental protection, making healthcare more expensive, undermining Internet freedom and more. Kevin Zeese in a conversation with Chris Hedges talks about how the TPP is the greatest corporate power grab in US history and how people have to rise up to stop the race to the bottom that will affect every aspect of our lives. A few days after the text was released, we highlighted ten shocking realities of the TPP. The final text showed that critics were right about what it would contain. In fact, the TPP is a step backward on many important issues.

GMO Free Zone To Protect Traditional & Organic Farmers

November 14, 2015 Staff, www.centerforfoodsafety.org Create! Colorado, GMOs

By Staff of Center for Food Center - SAN LUIS, COLORADO (November 12, 2015)— THE CENTER FOR FOOD SAFETY (CFS) is proud to support a new ordinance introduced today in Costilla County, Colorado that would establish a “Center of Origin” GMO-Free Zone of Protection to preserve the county’s unique agricultural products and traditional farming systems. The ordinance is intended to protect the county’s traditional acequia (community irrigation ditch) farmers and their land race heirloom maize varieties that are unique to the Upper Rio Grande watershed.

$10 Million Challenge To Monsanto: Prove Your Crops Are Safe

November 13, 2015 Staff, www.mintpressnews.com Resist! GMOs, Monsanto

By Staff of Mint Press News - MINNEAPOLIS — An outspoken opponent of Monsanto’s genetically-modified crops recently challenged the agribusiness giant to prove that it’s working with safety assessment standards for its GMO soybeans and other products. If Monsanto follows through, the challenger’s Boston-area property could be at stake. Shiva Ayyadurai, an American scientist with a PhD in systems biology from MIT, challenged Monsanto Corporation to disprove a study published in Agricultural Sciences, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

GMO Bar Codes, The Newest Gimmick To Keep You In The Dark

November 2, 2015 Staff, www.organicconsumers.org Educate! Food and Agriculture, GMOs

By Staff of Organic Consumers Association - “The [Oct. 21, 2015] Senate Agriculture hearing reaffirmed the broad consensus among scientists and regulators that GMOs are safe . . . We were pleased to hear Senator Stabenow’s [D-Mich.] personal commitment to work to develop a bipartisan bill that can pass the Senate by the end of this year…”. - Pamela Bailey, Grocery Manufacturers Association, in an October 21, 2015 press release. In the ever-complicated debate over labeling of genetically modified foods, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack offers this idea: Use your smartphone. Vilsack told members of Congress on Wednesday that consumers could just use their phones to scan special barcodes or other symbols on food packages in the grocery store.

Europe – Big Problem For Biotech Industry

October 22, 2015 Jim Goodman, www.popularresistance.org Educate! Corporatism, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Monsanto

By Jim Goodman for Popular Resistance. Wonewoc, WI - The US farm press is a segment of the media that most people never see. The glossy magazines tell farmers everything they need to know in order to be successful, efficient and progressive--- that is, in constant growth mode. Most have no subscription fees, there are plenty of advertisers to cover costs. Editorial content is clearly tailored to keeping advertisers happy. By supporting the trend to bigger farms, they also support the sale of bigger and more expensive machinery. Labor management articles clue farmers in on how to keep the growing Hispanic agricultural labor force productive. Editorials endorsing Genetically Modified (GM) seed, the associated pesticides and their inherent ability to feed the world are frequent and insistent.

At Least 16 European Countries Move Toward GMO Bans

October 4, 2015 Staff - www.greenpeace.org Create! Europe, GMOs

By Greenpeace - In the latest blow to the European Commission’s laissez-faire approach to GM crops, at least 16 EU countries and four regions (in two other countries) are in the process of banning the cultivation of GM crops on their territories, with more expected to follow by a 3 October deadline for notifications to the EU, said Greenpeace. Greenpeace EU food policy director Franziska Achterberg said: “A clear majority of the EU’s governments are rejecting the Commission’s drive for GM crop approvals. They don’t trust EU safety assessments and are rightly taking action to protect their agriculture and food. The only way to restore trust in the EU system now is for the Commission to hit the pause button on GM crop approvals and to urgently reform safety testing and the approval system.”

‘GE Trees Fall’ Activists Arrested At World Hdqtrs Of ArborGen

October 1, 2015 Anne Petermann, www.PopularResistance.org Resist! GE Trees, GMOs

By Anne Petermann of Global Justice Ecology Project - A new organizing initiative called “GE Trees Fall” launched with a four day GE trees action training camp outside of Asheville North Carolina, over September 24th to the 27th. Following the camp, activists converged on the world headquarters of ArborGen in Ridgeville, SC on Monday September 28th, resulting in two arrests. The action at ArborGen exposed their secret research and pointed out the potentially serious risks presented by these GE loblolly pine trees. Ruddy Turnstone, GJEP’s GE Trees Campaigner and I were arrested during the protest, which demanded ArborGen tear down their wall of secrecy surrounding their GE tree research and development, and pointed out that resistance to GE trees is growing, with more than a quarter of a million people signing on to letters and petitions rejecting GE trees, and protests against GE trees on six continents in 2015 alone.

Activists Arrested Protesting Genetically Modified Trees

September 29, 2015 Global Justice Ecology Project, www.globaljusticeecology.org Resist! Civil Disobedience, GMOs, Trees

By Global Ecology Justice Project - A plan by activists to inform Andrew Baum, President and CEO of ArborGen that over 250,000 people signed letters and petitions [1] rejecting Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees was interrupted when police arrested the two people who intended to deliver that message. Executive Director of Global Justice Ecology Project and Coordinator of the international Campaign to Stop Genetically Engineered Trees, Anne Petermann, and Global Justice Ecology Project’s GE Tree Campaign organizer, Ruddy Turnstone were stopped by police and arrested. The letters and petitions rejecting GE Trees and international protests mark a growing concern about the dangers of GE Trees and the threats they pose to the environment.

Russia Completely Bans GMOs In Food Production

September 28, 2015 Amanda Froelich, www.trueactivist.com Create! Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Russia

By Amanda Froelich in True Activist - Victory! Following news of Scotland and Germany opting to ban genetically modified foods, news has surfaced of the Russian Government completely banning the use of genetically modified ingredients in any and all food production. During an international conference on biotechnology, Deputy PM Arkady Dvorkovich stated: “As far as genetically-modified organisms are concerned, we have made decision not to use any GMO in food productions.” Basically, Russia flew past the issue of GMO labeling and shut down the use of any and all genetically modified foods that would have otherwise entered the food supply through packaged foods (and the cultivation of GMO crops). For anti-GMO proponents, this is huge, exciting news. To put the bold move into perspective, imagine what effect this would have in the United States.

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