News regarding the dangers of GMOs and biotech, and the advantages of organic sustainable agriculture.
First-Ever Lifetime Feeding Study Finds Genetically Engineered Corn Causes Massive Tumors, Organ Damage, and Early Death
by Dr. Mercola
The first-ever lifetime feeding study1 evaluating the health risks of genetically engineered foods was published online on September 19, and the results are troubling, to say the least. This new study joins a list of over 30 other animal studies showing toxic or allergenic problems with genetically engineered foods.
The study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Food […]
Private Food Club Distributor Found Not Guilty by Jury in Raw Milk Case in Minnesota
by David Gumpert
The Complete Patient
A jury of six ordinary Americans did something no judge, federal or state, has been willing to do anywhere in the country, whether in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Iowa, Maryland, or Wisconsin–it ruled in favor of a farmer-food club operator providing raw milk and other nutrient-dense foods privately to its members.
And […]
Dangerous Pro-GMO Amendments May Be On Their Last Legs—If We Act Now!
by Alliance for Natural Health
Things are looking up, but it’s important that we keep up the pressure. Action Alert!
You may recall our recent reports on the two riders before Congress that the biotech industry was so excited to get inserted into important bills. The first was in the big House Ag Appropriations Bill, which controls the vast majority of spending […]
Scientists Warn of GM Wheat Threat
by GMWatch.org
1.GM crop could cause liver failure: scientist
2.Scientists wary of CSIRO GM crop
3.World Scientists Warn on GM Wheat Threat
4.Opposition calls for rethink on GM wheat trial
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1.GM crop could cause liver failure: scientist
Sean Cowan
The West Australian, September 11 2012
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/14812749/gm-crop-could-cause-liver-failure-scientist/
A world-renowned scientist has warned that one of the CSIRO’s genetically modified wheat varieties has the potential […]
FDA Turns South Floridians into Human Guinea Pigs
by Alliance for Natural Health
Untested, bio-engineered mosquitoes will likely be released in the Florida Keys.
The British firm Oxitec is in the process of seeking approval in the US for a mosquito that has been genetically engineered to combat dengue fever (an infectious, mosquito-borne tropical disease that causes fever, headache, muscle and joint pains, and […]
What Do Cigarettes, DDT, Agent Orange, and GMOs Have In Common?
by Gretchen DuBeau
Alliance for Natural Health
Scientists knew about the dangers of cigarettes, DDT, and Agent Orange long before anything reached the public. The same is true today about genetically modified food (often referred to as genetically modified organisms or GMOs). This food is being sold without even a label identifying it. A genetically modified seed […]
USDA Offers the Biotech Industry Blanket Immunity for Contaminating Organic Crops
by Alliance for Natural Health
USDA calls it “coexistence,” but it’s just a way for GMO farmers to harm whomever they like—without consequence. Action Alert!
Many countries across the globe ban genetically engineered crops and foods. The USDA, rather than banning GMOs, aggressively supports them and claims that GMO crops will coexist alongside non-GMO crops.
The USDA’s Advisory Committee on Biotechnology […]
Michelle Obama: Tell Barack to honor his campaign promise to label GMOs
By Organic Consumers Association
To be delivered to: Michelle Obama, First Lady
Michelle, tell President Obama to honor his campaign promise to require GMO labeling and ask him to endorse California’s Proposition 37, a citizens’ ballot initiative to label GMOs.
Michelle Obama is a champion of better nutrition in school lunches and of ending childhood obesity. Which makes […]
Brazil court rules Nestle must label GMO ingredients
by GM Watch
1. Brazil court rules that Nestle must label transgenic ingredients
2. GMOs written on the label
NOTE: A Brazilian court has forced the multinational food company Nestle to label GM ingredients in food products, in conformance with a Brazilian law (item 1) that says all food products containing ingredients that have more than 1% GMO content […]
Pro-GMO Propaganda in California Dismantled by New Cost Study
by Alliance for Natural Health
Opponents of GMO labeling say it will raise food costs by hundreds of dollars per family when in fact it will likely cause NO cost increase at all!
The California Right to Know 2012 Ballot Initiative, which will be voted upon in November, will tell Californians—and ultimately perhaps other Americans—whether their food […]
Monsanto Gives $4.2 Million to Kill California GMO Labeling
by Stacy Malkan
CA Right to Know
New campaign finance reports reveal that Monsanto Co. just contributed $4.2 million to defeat Proposition 37, which would require labeling of genetically engineered food. That is the largest contribution in the race. Total contributions to defeat Proposition 37 amount to $25 million, and nearly $23 million during the last week.
Other major new contributions against […]
Pitchfork Protest: Farmer Fined for Hosting 10 Year Old’s Birthday Party at the Farm
In April, Fauquier County threatened Martha Boneta, owner of a small farm in Paris, VA, with thousands of dollars in fines for a series of alleged violations, including hosting “an event” on her farm without obtaining a special events permit.
The event? A small birthday party for the 10-year old daughter of a close friend, […]
Agent Orange Soy: Just Another Day at USDA
by Alliance for Natural Health
The poison can drift up to 100 miles, and may be in your water! Action Alert!
Remember our article from February about the strain of corn that has been genetically engineered to withstand the herbicide 2,4-D, one of the active ingredients in Agent Orange? Here’s the sequel: Dow AgroSciences has petitioned USDA for the deregulation of a […]
India Moves to Ban GMO Crops
Gargi Parsai
The Hindu
In a major setback to the proponents of genetically modified technology in farm crops, the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture on Thursday asked the government to stop all field trials and sought a bar on GM food crops (such as Bt. brinjal).
The committee report, tabled in the Lok Sabha, demanded a “thorough probe” […]
The Legislative Battlefield on GMOs
by Alliance for Natural Health
Some quick updates on hot-button issues in Congress and in state legislatures. (Please send a thank-you to some stalwart US senators!)
Those Pro-GMO Riders
Last week we told you about some sneaky GMO amendments—two riders attached to the Farm Bill, and one attached to the Agriculture Appropriations Bill.
The House was scheduled to consider a […]
Decade-Long Feeding Study Reveals Significant Health Hazards of Genetically Engineered Foods
By Dr. Mercola
Scientists in Norway have released results from experimental feeding studies carried out over a 10-year period, and the verdict is in: If you want to avoid obesity, then avoid eating genetically engineered (GE) corn, corn-based products, and animals that are fed a diet of GE grain.
As reported by Cornucopia.org1, the project also […]
Will Those Sneaky GMO Amendments Pass Because of an Underhanded Maneuver?
by Alliance for Natural Health
Not if we stop them!
As we reported a few weeks ago, these amendments represent a sneaky, behind-closed-doors attempt to make GMO foods immune from court review. Now we have learned of an even sneakier, even more questionable legislative maneuver that might get them passed.
The usual procedure for passing bills in […]
Fighting GMO Labeling in California Is Food Lobby’s “Highest Priority”
by Michele Simon
Grocery Manufacturers Association Long-time Obstructionist of Public Health
In case you had any doubt that California’s Prop 37 — which would require labeling of food containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) — is a significant threat to industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear.
In a recent speech to the American Soybean Association (most […]
Call Your Representative to Oppose the GMO Riders
On the heels of the “Monsanto rider” inserted into the House Agriculture Appropriations Bill a few weeks ago, the Biotech industry managed to insert several more damaging provisions into the House version of the Farm Bill.Together, these GMO industry-promoting provisions override judicial review of GMO crops found to have been approved illegally, gut any […]
Move Over, Frankenfish—Now We Have Frankenapples!
by Alliance for Natural Health
Apples genetically engineered not to turn brown when sliced or bruised. And new, unnatural proteins are being created in the process. Action Alert!
The “Arctic Apple,” engineered by the British Columbia–based Okanagan Specialty Fruits, thinks the non-browning apples could improve industry sales the way “baby carrots” did for carrot sales. Of […]