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New Report: GMOs Causing Massive Pesticide Pollution

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Gentically Engindeered Foods, Pesticides, The Organic Center, Bayer, Dupont, Monsanto, Gmos, Union of Concerned Scientists, Syngenta, Food Safety, Crop Yields, Herbicides, Biotech, Center for Food Safety, Dow, Climate Change, Green News
Andrew Kimbrell

There is one fact about genetically engineered foods that there is no debate about: no one wakes up in the morning eager to buy gene-altered food. There's good reason for this.

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On Farmers, Activists and Scary Food Issues

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 10.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Iowa, Gmos, Cafos, Michael Pollan, Corn, Ohio, Food Politics, Issue 2, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Originally published on The Green Fork. I must confess that before I traveled to Iowa earlier this month, I had rubbed elbows with quite a few farmer...

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Vilsack Mistakenly Pitched "GMOs-Feed-The-World" to an Audience of Experts--Oops

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green

Read More: American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Hans Herren, Ge, Secretary Vilsack, Iaastd, Bill Gates, Small Farmers, The International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, GM Food, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Global Population, Usda, Dupont, Monsanto, Biotechnology, Hunger, World Food Prize, Union of Concerned Scientists, GE Food, Local Food Systems, GM Crops, Science and Technology for Development, GE Crops, Feed the World, Syngenta, Agribusiness, Community Food Security Coalition, Gmos, Vilsack, Genetically Modified Foods, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

It is clear to the experts that the current generation of GMOs do not live up to the hype continuously broadcast by biotech companies and their promotional East Coast wing--the federal government.

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Obama's Chief Agricultural Negotiator Nominee a Pesticide Pusher

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Ustr, Pesticides, International Food Policy, Free Trade, Food Policy, Obama Administration, Gmos, Croplife, Green News
Paula Crossfield

The Obama administration has chosen someone from an organization dedicated at all costs to chemical-based agriculture to represent our trade interests abroad.

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Judge Rejects U.S. Approval of Genetically Modified Sugar Beets

nytimes.com | ANDREW POLLACK | Posted 11.23.2009 | Green

Read More: GM Sugar Beets, Gmo Sugar, Gmos, Sugar Beet Farmers, Sugar Beets, Food Politics, Farmers, Sugar, Green News

A federal judge has ruled that the government failed to adequately assess the environmental impacts of genetically engineered sugar beets before appro...

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Evaluating the Legacy of the Father of the Green Revolution

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Norman Borlaug, Crop Yields, Hunger, Gmos, Technology, World Hunger, Food Security, The Green Revolution, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Norman Borlaug, known for winning the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his role in the Green Revolution, died this past weekend at age 95. His life was dedicated to ending hunger through technology.

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Examining Monsanto's Greenwashing

guardian.co.uk | Fred Pearce | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Gmos, Monsanto Gmos, Green Washing, Water, Agriculture, Monsanto Greenwashing, Water Shortages, Monsanto Water, Monsanto, Green News

In part, no doubt, to help salvage its GM-tarnished reputation, Monsanto now makes great play of its efforts to help engineer a second green revolutio...

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"Non-GMO" Seal Identifies Foods Mostly Biotech-Free

nytimes.com | WILLIAM NEUMAN | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Whole Foods, Gmo Crops, Gmos, Non-Gmo, Food Biotech, Seeds, Biotech Seeds, Food Politics, Biotech, Non-Gmo Seal, Green News

Alarmed that genetically engineered crops may be finding their way into organic and natural foods, an industry group has begun a campaign to test prod...

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Lyme/Autism Group Blasts Genetically Modified Foods as Dangerous

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living

Read More: Seeds of Deception, Roundup Ready, Roundup, Infertility, Safety Test, Toxin, LIA Foundation, Lyme Induced Autism Foundation, Patient Advocacy, Liberty Herbicide, Campaign for Healthier Eating in America, Soy, Allergy, Shopping Guide, Digestive Disorders, Amy Dean, Cancer, Infant Mortality, Environmental Toxin, Genetic Engineering, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, Sterility, Genetically Modified Foods, Corn, Genetically Engineered Foods, Carcinogens, Reproductive Problems, Inflammation, Immune System, Rbst, Beneficial Bacteria, Arpad Pusztai, GE Crops, Gmos, Autistic Spectrum, Bt, Institute for Responsible Technology, Kimberly Wilcox, Liberty Link, Rbgh, Gut Flora, Genetic Roulette, Gmo, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Livestock Disease, Dna, Fraternal Twins, Fda, Side Effects, Immune Reaction, World Health Organization, Autism Relief Foundation, Food Allergies, Herbicide-Tolerant, Lyme Disease, Jannelle Love, Animal Feeding Studies, Genetically Modified Organisms, Igf-1, Soy Allergies, GM Crops, Autism, GE Foods, Bovine Growth Hormone, Non-GMO Shopping Guide, GM Foods, Allergies, Aaem, Non-Gmo, Bt-Toxin, Living News
Jeffrey Smith

Stop eating dangerous genetically modified foods! That's the upshot of the Lyme Induced Autism (LIA) Foundation's position paper released today.

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What We Can Learn About Food Labeling From Europe

The Atlantic Food Channel | By Marion Nestle | Posted 09.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Labeling, Food, Food Safety, Gmos, Gmo Food, Gmo, Food Politics, Green News

The GM industry (translation: Monsanto) has opposed labeling from the very beginning, no doubt because of fears that people will reject GM foods. ...

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African Food Security? USAID Has Used Taxpayer Money to Fund GMOs Abroad Since 1991

Paula Crossfield | Posted 09.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Usaid, Kenya, Africa, Tom Vilsack, Health, Environment, Food Safety, Genetically Modified Food, Food Policy, Hillary Clinton, Gmos, Foreign Policy, Food Security, Iaastd, Kari, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Africans can look to India to see what a future of relying on biotech seeds looks like. There, a depleted water table, poisoned waterways and farmer suicides have been the result of the first Green Revolution.

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You're Appointing Who? Please Obama, Say It's Not So!

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 08.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Dr. P. M. Bhargava, President Obama, Infertility, Milk, Revolving Door, Dennis Wolff, Food Safety, Rbgh, Organic Trade Association, Food Safety Czar, Organic, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, International Dairy Foods Association, FDA Policy, Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture, Fda, Food Related Illness, GM Foods, Asthma, Michael Taylor. Safety Testing, Cancer, Genetically Modified Foods, American Academy of Environmental Medicine, GMO Labels, Genetically Engineered Foods, Gastrointestinal Disorder, Substantially Equivalent, Inflammation, Immune Problems, Genetically Modified Organisms, Food Labels, Accelerated Aging, Milk Supply, Igf-1, Rbst, Monsanto, Ohio Governor Strickland, Genetically Engineered, Insulin Regulation, Governor Ed Rendell, Food Supply, GE Foods, Bovine Growth Hormone, Gmos, Food and Drug Administration, Allergies, Multiple Chronic Illness, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

The person who may be responsible for more food-related illness and death than anyone in history has just been made the US food safety czar.

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Preserving the Dying Art of Cooking (and Other Things I Do Because I Know in My Heart They're Important)

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 08.17.2009 | Style

Read More: Pesticides, Home Cooking, Polaroid, Gmos, Biodiversity, Apples, Monsanto, Not-Eating-Out-in-New-York, Style News
Jerusha Klemperer

Cooking for ourselves is something people did for hundreds and hundreds of years and now we don't do it. The loss of this in our culture strikes me as profound.

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Racing Toward a Roundup-Ready Food Future

Nancy Scola | Posted 08.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Usda, Food Policy, Food, Soybeans, Monsanto, Gmos, Corn, Green News
Nancy Scola

What's clear from the new USDA numbers is how quickly the U.S. food supply is changing, whether we eaters like it or not.

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G-8 Promises $20 Billion in Agricultural Aid: Real Change or Business as Usual?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 08.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, G8, Gmos, Agricultural Development, Agriculture, Africa, Sustainability, Group-of-8, Food Aid, International, Barack Obama, Food Security, Green News
Paula Crossfield

One can't help but wonder if by requesting this money from the G8 in the name of charity we are instead trying to promote our own economy.

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All That Glitters Is Not Gold: Biotechnology Has Failed Us, So Why Promote It Abroad?

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Eric Holt-Gimenez, Hunger, Biotechnology, International Development, Food Access, Africa, Food Policy, Gmos, The Green Revolution, Raj Patel, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Groups like the Gates Foundation are trying to renew the idea of creating a "Green Revolution for Africa," using many of the same methods that have been so bad for India.

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Food, Inc. Gets Rave Reviews, Big Ag Shudders

Paula Crossfield | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Movement, Michael Pollan, Gmos, Food Inc., Fast Food, Genetically Modified Food, Food Policy, Regulation, Big Ag, Hillary Clinton, Food Safety, Legislation, Food Safety Enhancement Act, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Today, Food, Inc. debuts: it is certainly not a film to miss. Big Ag realizes that the tide is turning on the corporate control of our food system, and that their message is in jeopardy.

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You Are What You Eat: Food Inc. Brings Food to the Forefront

Tracy Hepler | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Food Matters, Gmos, You Are What You Eat, Food Inc., Factory Farms, Fast Food Nation, Alice Waters, Fast Food Industry, Monsanto, Green News
Tracy Hepler

Looking at today's society it seems clear that when it comes to our food and nutrition, our priorities are out of whack. We need a wake up call and Food, Inc. is just that.

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Biotech FAIL: Bad Science, Worse Faith and Superweeds

Leslie Hatfield | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Genetically Modified Food, Precautionary Principle, Gmos, Biotechnology, Food Politics, Green News
Leslie Hatfield

Real innovation in the agriculture world may not be the stuff of spliced genes and petrochemicals but a better understanding of time-tested methods of food production, like compost and worms.

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Message to Obama: Bust-up the Agribusiness Trusts

Paula Crossfield | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Anti-Trust, Gmos, Trust-Busting, Factory Farms, Agribusiness, Food Safety, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Cargill, ADM, Monsanto, Tyson and Smithfield are probably breaking the law, and that law needs to be enforced.

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Unearthed: The News Without the Chaff

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 03.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Gmos, Blackwater, Exxon Mobil, Mercury, Xe, Religious Right, Sustainability, Climate Change, Biotech, Pollution, Alan Keyes, Massey Coal, Media News
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle

Green companies do better during economic downturn, Santorum says the Qur'an was written in 'Islamic', Alan Keyes calls Obama "a radical communist," and more.

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Food Crisis: A Regulatory Meltdown No Bailout Can Save

Andrew Kimbrell | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Gmos, Fatalities, Budget Cuts, Food Crisis, Mortgage Crisis, Salmonella, Producers, Food-Borne Diseases, Bush Administration, Infectious Diseases, Fda, Laissez-Faire, Food Safety, Food, Food and Drug Administration, Gmo, Politics News
Andrew Kimbrell

The problems we face in food safety are familiar when viewing the unfolding financial crisis. We see cuts in agency budgets, weakening of regulations, and the fox being put in charge of the henhouse.

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Meet Shmeat: Test-Tube Meat

Grist | Lou Bendrick | Posted 01.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Veganism, Test-Tube Meat, Eating Matters, Green News, X Prize, Green Living, Peta, Gmos, Vegetarianism, Meat, Schmeat, In Vitro Meat, Shmeat, Meat Shmeat, Green News

Earlier this year, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals announced that it will offer a $1 million X Prize for the creation of affordable, human...

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Obama's Team Includes Dangerous Biotech "Yes Men"

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 03.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Joseph Cortright, Gmos, Transition Team, Tom Vilsack, Dennis Wolff, Fda, Barack Obama, Monsanto, Rbgh, Secretary of Agriculture, Genetically Engineered Food, Michael Taylor, Unbossed, Dan Glickman, Food Safety, Genetically Modified Food, Obama Transition, Obama GMOs, Bovine Growth Hormone, Usda, Food and Drug Administration, Steven Druker, Oregon, Genetic Engineering, Rbst, Obama Usda, Green News
Jeffrey Smith

Instead of giving us change and hope, biotech "Yes Men" on Obama's team may prolong the hypnotic "group think" that has been institutionalized over three previous administrations.

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Life Cycle: Pop vs. Soda? Either Way It's Made with (GMO) Corn.

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Aspartame, Cans, Genetically-Modified Organisms, Popcorn, Weight Gain, Fake Sweeteners, Artificial, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Aluminum, Green Living, Memory Loss, Obesity, Dvds, Movies, Recycling, Leukemia, Health, Soda, Plastic, Sarah Smarsh, Blockbuster Night, Fibromyalgia, Ani DiFranco, Pop, Simran Sethi, Saccharin, All-American, Gmos, Green News
Simran Sethi

Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the environmental impacts of everyday things. Last week we talked about popcorn. Chemically flavored...

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