How will GMO Salmon Impact Human Health?

    Right now President Obama and bureaucrats at the Food and Drug Administration are preparing to unleash genetically engineered salmon on the market. After years of controversial regulatory review, this past week the Obama administration cleared a final hurdle for AquaBounty’s GMO salmon to be approved at any moment. The deadline for the comment period for GMO salmon is ending this Friday, April 26th, 2013. We need your help to get as many comments as possible, please make a comment and pass this on! Every voice counts!

      Get GMOs out of Infant Formula

      Many of the ingredients used in infant formula, especially soy-based formula, are derived from crops that have been genetically altered. Nobody should be eating GMO foods, especially babies. But until infant formula makers stop using GMO ingredients, hundreds of thousands of newborns and infants will be unwitting participants in this huge, uncontrolled experiment with the health of the next generation.

        AND Responds to Dietitian GMO Whistleblower

        The "media relations manager" for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics contacted us regarding the N.Y. Times story we featured: Registered Dietitian Dismissed from Panel Researching GMO Nutrition for Pointing out Other Members Ties to Monsanto. We are publishing their response unedited below, as well as the response from Ms. Bartolotto.

          “Monsanto Protection Act” Triggers a Firestorm of Protest and Public Outrage

          It’s being called the straw that broke the camel’s back. Bloomberg, The New York Times, Politico—media of all political persuasions—ran searingly critical articles about the biotech rider that the Senate slipped into the Continuing Resolution despite messages pouring into Congress.

            Scientists Want Assurances New GMO is Safe

            The scientists’ latest concerns relate to GM plants which are being designed to make a new ribonucleic acid molecule which has the ability to silence or activate certain genes in the plant and the impacts this could have on humans, perhaps even turning off human genes.

              Seeds of Dissent: How the Biotech Industry is Gagging the Science Around Genetically Modified Foods

              Independent scientists whose findings contradict claims of biotech companies regularly come under attack by GM proponents.

                How GMO Farming and Food Is Making Our Gut Flora UNFRIENDLY

                by Sayer Ji
                GreenMedInfo.com 

                Two studies published in the past six months reveal a disturbing finding: glyphosate-based herbicides such as Roundup® appear to suppress the growth of beneficial gut bacteria, leading to the overgrowth of extremely pathogenic bacteria.

                Late last year, in an article titled Roundup Herbicide Linked to Overgrowth of Deadly Bacteria, we reported on new research indicating that glyphosate-based herbicides such […]

                  More Educated Parents Less Likely To Vaccinate and Feed Children Sugar and GMO Foods

                  by Dr. Dave Mihalovic
                  PreventDisease.com

                  The education level of parents has an influence on the frequency with which their children eat foods linked to obesity and if they will be vaccinated. The children of parents with low and medium levels of education eat fewer vegetables and fruit and more processed food products including genetically modified foods. They […]

                    Big Agriculture Takes Control of Congress – Gets Immunity from GMO Lawsuits

                    Health Impact News Editor Comments:
                    Since the Alliance for Natural Health published this report below, more information has been uncovered about the GMO protection rider that Food Democracy Now had labeled “The Monsanto Protection Act.” The law containing the rider was signed by President Obama late last night (March 26th). David Rogers of Politico has […]

                      30 Years of genetically engineered plants – Consequences of commercial growing in the US

                      Cultivation figures for genetically engineered crops in the United States (source: www.isaaa.org)
                      Health Impact News

                      A German group supplied a critical review of the commercial genetically modified agricultural program at the beginning of 2013. Most Europeans have been very cautious and skeptical of genetically modified crops from the U.S., and there is very limited production of […]

                        Stop the Monsanto Protection Act today!

                        Update 3/14/2013 from Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance:

                        Greetings!

                        As we alerted you yesterday, Monsanto and Agribusiness companies have managed to insert two dangerous provisions into the Continuing Resolution (“CR”) that is about to be voted on by the U.S. Senate.

                        The first provision is the “Monsanto rider” that destroys the few protections that currently exist against the planting of […]

                          U.S. State Department Wants to Pressure the EU to Accept our GMO Products

                          by Alliance for Natural Health Europe

                          Food crisis needed for Europe to accept GM: US government adviser
                          It will take a food security crisis to make European consumers recognise the need for genetically modified (GM) food, warns a senior US government adviser.

                          Jack Bobo, senior biotechnology adviser to the US State Department, told a Chartered Institute of […]

                            GMO fail: Monsanto foiled by feds, Supreme Court, and science

                            By Tom Laskawy
                            Grist.org
                            Excerpts:
                            It’s been a good week if you enjoy a little GMO schadenfreude. The FDA has reportedly bowed to public pressure to extend the comment period on its approval of genetically engineered salmon, and Illinois, Maryland, and Iowa are the latest states to buck GMOs by introducing labeling bills into state legislature.
                            Even the […]

                              New Report Exposes Devastating Impact of Monsanto Practices on U.S. Farmers

                              by Center for Food Safety

                              Center for Food Safety and Save Our Seeds Investigate Role of Seed Patents in Consolidating Corporate Control of Global Food Supply

                              Today, one week before the Supreme Court hears arguments in Bowman v. Monsanto Co., the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and Save our Seeds (SOS) – two legal and policy organizations […]

                                Dow’s Controversial New GMO Corn Delayed Amid Protests

                                By Carey Gillam
                                Reuters

                                Excerpts:

                                A controversial new biotech corn developed by Dow AgroSciences, a unit of Dow Chemical, will be delayed at least another year as the company awaits regulatory approval amid opposition from farmers, consumers and public health officials.

                                Dow wants to roll out Enlist corn, and then soybeans and cotton to be used in combination […]

                                  Seeds of Discontent: A Texas Organic Cotton Farmer Takes On Monsanto

                                  by Eva Hershaw
                                  TexasObserver.org and ReportingTexas.com

                                  This story was produced as part of a joint venture with Reporting Texas, an online publication at the University of Texas-Austin’s School of Journalism.

                                  Through the windows of LaRhea Pepper’s pickup, turnrows of blooming Texas cotton stretched to the horizon under an impeccably blue sky. We barreled down a dirt road toward her brother-in-law […]

                                    How GMO Seeds Lead to Suicides in India and Threaten Native Heirloom Seeds

                                    Two Options: The story of an environmental activist (Dr. Vandana Shiava) and a farmer (Bija Devi) and their fight to preserve heirloom seeds in India amidst great opposition.

                                    In this brief video Dr. Vandana Shiava explains how the policies of Monsanto have led to farmer suicides (they lose their farms after believing they will get […]

                                      US farmers may stop planting GMs after poor global yields

                                      by Robyn Vinter
                                      Farmers Weekly

                                      Some US farmers are considering returning to conventional seed after increased pest resistance and crop failures meant GM crops saw smaller yields globally than their non-GM counterparts.

                                      Farmers in the USA pay about an extra $100 per acre for GM seed, and many are questioning whether they will continue to see benefits from using […]

                                        Viral Gene in Genetically Engineered Foods Could Promote Disease

                                        By Dr. Mercola

                                        I’ve previously warned of the potential dangers of genetically engineered (GE) foods for many years now, pointing out that such crops might have wholly unforeseen consequences.

                                        In recent years, such suspicions have increasingly proven correct, and now researchers have released yet another bombshell.

                                        Genetic manipulation of crops, and more recently food animals, is a dangerous […]

                                          Demand Growing for Non-GMO Corn Seed Among Farmers

                                           

                                          by The Organic & Non-GMO Report

                                          Excerpts:

                                          Farmers questioning the value of GMO traits in corn.

                                          Interest and demand for non-GMO corn seed among US farmers is growing, according to seed suppliers who say that higher yields and returns, less cost, dissatisfaction with genetically modified traits, and better animal health are driving the demand.

                                          Tim Schneider, a sales representative for Tom […]