It is bad enough that unproven, risky gene-edited food are already growing in the ground, but they are also being labeled as Non-GMO.
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It is bad enough that unproven, risky gene-edited food are already growing in the ground, but they are also being labeled as Non-GMO.
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The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has partnered with Cornell and others to expand the planting of yet another risky, unproven GMO crop — this time, it is eggplant.
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Beginning on July 23rd in Iran, all food that contains GMOs must be labeled.
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At a recent meeting in Ghana, experts and activists from Ethiopia, Kenya, Togo, South Africa and Zimbabwe discussed the importance of diversity of crops, food as part of culture and identity, and sustaining a food system without GMO crops.
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In a very positive development, Slovakia has no GE-crops under development in the country, largely due to the protests of NGOs and the influence of neighboring countries.
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Even though Bloomberg claims that GMOs are safe — something that the organic industry does not agree with — it slams the USDA’s proposed GMO-labeling standards and insinuates that they are ‘propaganda’ and potentially ‘misleading.’
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In what would have been absolutely unthinkable just a few years ago, the Grocery Manufacturers Association, a trade group that spent tens of millions of dollars fighting GMO-labeling, has now come out and said it supports full labeling of all GMO oils and sugars.
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It should come as no surprise that GMO-grass is beginning to cause real problems in Oregon, and Big Ag is off the hook in dealing with the mess.
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A strain of unapproved GMO wheat from Monsanto was found in Canada, which prompted Japan and South Korea to halt imports from the country.
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In its approval of GMO ‘Golden Rice’, the FDA said that this crop does not meet the nutritional requirements to make a health claim. This is a significant blow to advocates of Golden Rice who said that it would provide increased amounts of Vitamin A.
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Exploiting a legal loophole, the UK will grow gene-edited plants that aim to produce extra amounts of Omega-3s.
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It has been uncovered that scientists overseeing a GMO-mosquito test in the Cayman Islands said that the project was not a success, contrary to what the company claims. Is anyone the least bit surprised?
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USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue says it is very likely that the GMO-labeling rules, which Congress mandated to be finished by July 29th, will be delayed. Much of the blame rests with the White House Office of Management & Budget, he said.
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In an incredibly disappointing and flawed op-ed, Jane Brody makes the case for GMOs yet fails to mention, among many other things, the millions of acres of superweeds that we now have because of GE-crops.
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The USDA just announced that that it will not be regulating GMOs 2.0 — gene-edited plants — and shockingly said that this technology presents no risk.
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A look at the problems that synthetic biology, CRISPR and other gene-editing techniques are sure to bring.
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In an important ruling, the EU’s General Court said that consumer and environmental groups could challenge the way the European Commission authorizes the sale of GMOs.
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Biotech companies are putting the full-court press on the Trump administration to ease the way for GMO-animals, such as pigs without tails and cows without horns.
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In a Reddit post, the Microsoft founder calls GMOs “perfectly healthy” and he finds it “disappointing” that people view Non-GMO foods as better.
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In very worrisome news, GE-apples that don’t brown will hit more stores than initially planned, spurred by positive feedback from misinformed consumers.
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In this op-ed, U.S. Right to Know’s Stacy Malkan takes aim at the bizarre standard for opinion writers at Newsweek.
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Because CRISPR-edited foods can bypass the normal regulations that traditional GMOs face, they will be coming to supermarkets much faster than they should be.
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A European court has ruled that mutagenesis, a gene-editing technique, is exempt from GMO rules.
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At the CODEX meetings in Berlin, Monsanto attempted to convince committee members that genetically-engineered foods should be classified as “biofortified”, which would greatly mislead and confuse consumers.
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