Organic Insider Newsletter Archive

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) made the tragic decision of approving genetically-engineered diamondback moths. Here's why they won't be released just yet and what could stand in their way of being released into the wild.

If Cornell University scientist Dr. Anthony Shelton gets his way, 30,000 genetically-engineered moths will be released per week for three to four months, up to a period of two years in upstate New York. Here's a look at this very dangerous situation.

If we reflect back over the last few years, the organic industry has spent an incredible amount of time and tens of millions of dollars fighting for GMO-labeling. And what did we get from it? A horrible GMO-labeling bill that allows for the use of QR codes instead of on-packaging labeling. In hindsight, the industry might have been better served...

As many of you may know, the long-awaited, genetically-modified Arctic Apple that doesn’t turn brown hits the shelves in select supermarkets in the Midwest today. Even though no long-term safety studies have ever been done on GMOs, this new apple poses a different and potentially bigger risk than a health one. I discuss this risk in today's...

Several powerful pieces of research and news articles have appeared in the past few weeks that have made me believe that we may be getting close to a tipping point, where we are starting to win the fight against GMOs and pesticides. Here is what came out and why they are so powerful.

In today's Organic Insider -- the very first one -- I discuss findings from the Pew Research Center and a study out of Europe, both of which give us fascinating insight as to how we view organic food and GMOs. The results were both encouraging and alarming. Second, brand new findings out of Europe completely dispel the notion that GMOs are...