Trump Just Made It a Lot Easier for GMOs to Enter the Food Supply
Derrick Broze – Donald Trump’s latest executive order will bring GMO’s to more consumers and give greater power to the biotech swamp.
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Idiocracy: Food Packaging Should Have Traffic Light Labels?
Heather Callaghan – “Should food products be labeled with traffic light symbols to make health-related information on ingredients easier to understand?”
Why Prevent Labeling of GMO Foods?
James Hall – Whether to require labeling on GMO foods should be the easiest and simplest of decisions.
The GMO Labeling Conundrum
Ulson Gunnar, New Eastern Outlook Waking Times It would seem that large agricultural corporations touting genetically modified organisms (GMOs) they claim possess enhanced benefits for farmers and consumers would be proud to differentiate their products on the shelves from organic and traditionally produced food. However that is not the case. Not only is big-ag attempting …
Wave of GMO Labeling Victories Emboldens Movement to Take Back Food Democracy
Michele Simon, EcoWatch Waking Times The East Coast has been getting most of the attention lately on the state by state effort to label genetically-engineered food. Vermont recently passed a bill and New York State’s bill is now moving. But let’s not forget about the western states, which are also critical to this fight. Right to know advocates in Oregon and Colorado are currently …
GMOs: Ban Them or Label Them?
Ronnie Cummins, Organic Consumers Association Waking Times Since the controversial introduction in the mid-nineties of genetically engineered (GE) food and crops, and the subsequent fast-tracking of those crops by the federal government—with no independent safety-testing or labeling required—there has been a lively debate among activists, both inside and outside the U.S., about how to drive …
Labeling Is Not the Only Thing About GMOs We Don’t Know
Catherine J. Frompovich, Guest Waking Times Genetic modification of plants—along with cloning of animals, remember Dolly the Sheep (1996)—has been going on without apparent second thoughts being given to the ramifications of what such technological advances do to the biosphere. Recently, concerned citizens have taken a second look at GMO technology relative to the toxic …
Monsanto’s Stock Becoming High Risk as Youth Demand GMO Labeling
Lauren Berlekamp, EcoWatch Waking Times Whether you believe genetically engineered (GE) foods ought to be labeled or you believe they ought to be outright banned, this very debate means bad news for notorious Big Ag biotech giant Monsanto. In a recent article published by conservative Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, well-known growth investor and columnist Chris …
7 Reasons Why Genetically Modified Foods Will Never Be Labeled And Why It Won’t Matter In The Future
Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times There are many arguments in favor of mandatory labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMO). However, corporate lobbyists have been very effective in preventing any GMO labeling legislation from being enacted into law. The public is in favor of the idea, but politicians are only on board until voting polls …
3 Signs That Anti-GMO Activism Is Working In Europe
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Waking Times There are days that Monsanto’s efforts to dominate the food supply through its patenting of GMO seeds seem so malicious and abhorrent, that any possibility of regular people and family farms taking back control over agriculture and our food source appears insurmountable. Yet, there are also days when it appears …
Unlabeled Genetically Modified Salmon Could Soon Be In Stores
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times Genetically-modified (GM) Atlantic salmon is biotech’s next venture as they circumvent nature in an effort to create salmon that grows twice as fast as wild salmon – making fish production more profitable. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a statement last Friday, on the eve of a …
30 States Pick Up Reins on GMO Labeling Initiative After Prop 37 Defeat
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Writer Waking Times With the defeat of California Prop 37, the fight to require labeling of genetically modified foods has passed on to other states, such as Washington and Vermont. Although California’s initiative failed on election day, the campaign brought national attention to the issue of labeling GM foods, with 30 other …
California’s Prop 37 Scandal: Resolution and Healing Amid the Corruption – Washington State Next?
Jack Adam Weber, Wake Up World Waking Times After elections we learned of the scandal claiming that the results of Prop 37 were announced prematurely and perhaps incorrectly. Then we discovered the official record from the California Secretary of State for all the uncounted votes, amounting to 3,334,495. Many people have begun to hope that we could still win this …
Ever Met a Person Face-to-Face That Actually Opposes Labeling of Genetically Modified Foods?
Natasha Longo, Prevent Disease Waking Times Who are these people that oppose GMO (genetically modified organisms) labeling? Have you ever met one of them? If so, who do they work for and do they have ulterior motives? Most of us have never met these people in person because they remain cloaked behind a corporate facade. …
Defeat Monsanto — Vote YES on Prop 37
Jack Adam Weber, Wakeup-World Waking Times On November 6th this year all of us that despise GMOs and Monsanto will be waiting with bated breath for the outcome of one single proposition that, if passed, could topple the GMO empire in the United States and trickle down to other countries around the world. Proposition 37, the California Right to Know …
In Support of California Proposition 37: Required Full-Label Disclosure of Genetically Modified Organisms
Tom Newmark, Drake Sadler, and Michael Besancon American Botanical Council Did you hear the recent story about the scientists who wanted to put the phosphorescent genes from jellyfish into kittens? Sounds crazy, but some cat owners whose felines stray at night would like to use this technology to find them in the dark. So imagine …
Is The End of Monsanto Near? Prop 37 Succeeding as Nations Ban GMO Crops
Anthony Gucciardi Waking Times Is the end of Monsanto within reach? It has certainly been a rough couple of weeks for the mega corporation as the real dangers surrounding GMOs are being brought to the attention of consumers on a global scale like never before. It all started with the monumental French study finding a serious link …
Brazilian Court Demands Nestle Label GMO Ingredients
Anthony Gucciardi Waking Times It appears another victory has been declared in the battle against Monsanto and GMO ingredients. According to a major Brazilian business publication and GMWatch, a Brazilian court has demanded that multi-billion dollar food giant Nestle label all of their products as genetically modified that have over 1% GMO content. The ruling reportedly coincides with Brazilian law …
Monsanto Launches Massive Campaign to Stop GMO Labeling
Lisa Garber Waking Times We’ve gone on at great lengths discussing the dangers of genetic modification. Monsanto’s GMO corn has been linked to weight gain and organ function disruption, while GMO crops and pesticides destroy our farmland and environment. According to the Alliance of Natural Health, the grandchildren of rats fed GMO corn were born sterile. GMO is just one …