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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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Big Barack Bummer

Sarah Newman | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Pesticides, Michelle Obama, Islam Siddiqui, Tom Vilsack, Eat Well Guide, Organic, Barack Obama, Sustainable, Department of Agriculture, Usda, Monsanto, Pesticide Action Network, White House Garden, Food Inc., Takepart, Croplife, US Chief Agriculture Negotiator, Roger Beachy, Green News
Sarah Newman

It's disappointing that the Obama Administration is not providing the visionary leadership on agriculture, like it is in some many other policy areas.

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Cloudy With a Chance of Allergies or Autism?

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Technofood, Michael Pollan, Robyn O'Brien, Dange-Ometer, Adhd, Autism, Bill Gates, Economist, Patent, Gmo, Children's Health, Health Care, Monsanto, Allergies, Allergy Kids, Living News
Robyn O'Brien

There are 26,000 food poisoning cases per 100,000 Americans, every year (an eye-popping 26% of the population). Compare that to only 3,400 cases in the UK, or 1,200 in France.

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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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Is Eli Lilly Milking Cancer by Promoting and Treating It?

Jeffrey Smith | Posted 10.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Richard Burroughs, Colon Cancer, Milk, Diethylstilbestrol, Risk Factors, Rbgh, Diabetes. Settlement, Cell Division, Insulin-Like Growth Factor 1, Consumer Protection Claim, Antibiotic Resistance, Non-GMO., Lung Cancer, Dairy Products, Eli Lilly, Fraternal Twins, Breast Cancer, Fda, American Nurses Association, Hormone, American Medical Association, Cancer, Your Milk on Drugs, Blood Sugar, Wal-Mart, Dairies, Breast Cancer Action, Zyprexa, Obesity, Milking Cancer, Milk Supply, Igf-1, Rbst, Monsanto, Prostate Cancer, Bovine Growth Hormone, Food and Drug Administration, Journal of Reproductive Medicine, Illegally Marketing the Drug, Mastitis, Elanco, Evista, Rbst-Free, Rbgh-Free, Des, Business News
Jeffrey Smith

Would Eli Lilly consciously risk our health just to increase their profit? What kind of company are they, and can we trust them with our food?

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World's Best Companies? Delving Into BusinessWeek's List

Posted 10.06.2009 | Business

Read More: World's Best Companies, Google, Amazon.com, Apple, Nintendo, Monsanto, Businessweek, Business News

Could a video game company actually be the world's greatest corporation? According to a new ranking from BusinessWeek and the consulting firm A.T. Kea...

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New Big Ag Push to Fight World Hunger Misses What Organic Ag Is Already Doing

Timothy LaSalle | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Global Harvest Initiative, Organic Food, World Hunger, Organic Farming, Nutrition, Chemical Agriculture, Green News
Timothy LaSalle

Absent from the Global Harvest Initiative was an honest assessment of the limits of dead-end chemical agriculture to play a leading role in actually feeding people.

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Global Harvest Initiative Seeks Not to Feed People, But to Bolster Big Agriculture's Profits

Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Dupont, Hunger, Monsanto, Global Harvest Initiative, Dan Glickman, Agriculture, Agribusiness, Richard Lugar, Adm, Norman Borlaug, Green News
Paula Crossfield

Hunger looks on the surface to be the most bipartisan policy issue on our collective plates. We can all agree to the fact that hunger today is a global tragedy. But from there the discussion diverges.

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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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Jim Cramer Thinks Food, Inc. Could Inflame The Justice Dept To Take On Monsanto (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 09.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto Farmers, Farming, Food Inc Monstanto, Video, Food Inc., Farmers, Food Politics, Antitrust, Monsanto Antitrust, Food-Inc-Film, Monsanto Jim Cramer, Monsanto, Jim Cramer, Green News

Last week, Jim Cramer did a fascinating segment on the seed giant and Roundup herbicide producer, Monsanto. He posits that Monsanto could be a prime t...

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FDA Needs To Dismiss Former Monsanto Counsel

Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 09.11.2009 | Green

Read More: Genetically Engineered Milk, Monsanto, Michael Taylor, Dr. Margaret Hamburg, Fda, Rbgh, Prostate Cancer, Colon Cancer, Fda Approval, Genetically Modified Food, FDA Warning, Is-Monsanto-Backing-Hr-875, Genetically Modified Organisms, Green News
Samuel S. Epstein

The recent appointment of Michael Taylor as FDA's Senior Food Safety Advisor is of major public health concern since he is a former counsel for Monsanto who argued rBGH was safe.

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Meatless Monday: Jack and the GMO Beanstalk

Ellen Kanner | Posted 09.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Roundup, Monsanto, Michael Taylor, Fda, Jack, Agent Orange, Gmo, Ogre, Jeffrey Smith, H.R. 2749, Meatless Monday, Meatless Mondays, Green News
Ellen Kanner

Once upon a time, there was a boy named Jack. Jack came from a hard-up family, but he considered himself a savvy, enterprising lad. To prove it, he ...

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Guess Who's Controlling Our Food Supply

Rob Smart | Posted 08.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Labeling, Farms, Consumer Food Expenditures, Usda, Pro Food, Monsanto, Industrial Food, Politics, Farmers, Sustainable, Food Retail, Food Safety, Supermarkets, Local, Food Marketing, Regulation, Business, Gmo, Green News
Rob Smart

It is hard to understand how a handful of companies have amassed so much control over food ingredients found in an estimated 75 percent of processed foods in America's supermarkets.

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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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Green News Report - July 9, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, T. Boone Pickens, G8 Summit, President Obama, Mt. Rushmore, Arizona, Fda, Green News Report, Greenpeace, Monsanto, Arctic, Bald Eagles, Creationism, Indoor Air Quality, Green News, Climate Change, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: Obama on Mt. Rushmore; Monsanto lobbyist moves to FDA; Bald eagles move to D.C....

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He's Back! Former VP at Monsanto To Advise FDA Commissioner on Food Safety

Christine Escobar | Posted 08.09.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Food Safety and the FDA, Fda, Margaret A. Hamburg, Food Safety, Advisor to FDA, Michael R. Taylor, Christine Escobar, White House Food Safety Policy, Green News
Christine Escobar

Michael Taylor helped plan the insidious way rBGH (the bovine growth hormone) made it into our country's food supply.

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Dancing With the Devil: Public Broadcasting's Questionable Choices in Sponsorships

Jaclyn Simon | Posted 07.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Exxon Mobile, Television, Education, Monsanto, National Public Radio, Corporate-Social-Responsibility, Wal-Mart, Advertising, Radio, Public Radio International, Coca Cola, Public Broadcasting, Corporate Sponsership, Media News
Jaclyn Simon

Why do they let the corporate axis of evil -- Monsanto, Exxon, and Wal-Mart -- sponsor their otherwise socially responsible programming?

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Food, Inc.'s Robert Kenner Discusses What Gives Him Goosebumps, and What Gives Him Hope

Louise McCready | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Food, Farming, Veggie Libel Laws, Industrial-Food-System, Robert Kenner, Sustainable Food, Agriculture, Upton Sinclair, Fda, Obesity, Monsanto, Barack Obama, E. Coli, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Pollan, Obesity Epidemic, Joel Salatin, Sustainability, Food Safety, Eric Schlosser, Green News
Louise McCready

Robert Kenner gives us a twenty-first century Upton-Sinclair-look at the industrial food system in his latest film, Food, Inc., and not since The Jungle has the food in the U.S. seemed so unsafe.

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Food Revolution Sprouting on Twitter: Tweet with Food, Inc. Director

Sarah Newman | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Stonyfield Yogurt, Monsanto, Michael Pollan, Tweet, Barb Kowalcyk, Gary Hirshberg, Food, Twitter, Inc, Robert Kenner, Industrial Food System, Eric Schlosser, Green News
Sarah Newman

Three times a day we have an opportunity to make a statement about what we eat; be part of the conversation this Friday to help build this movement.

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My Interview with Michael Pollan

Waylon Lewis | Posted 07.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Farmers' Market, Video, Michael Pollan Interview, Michael Pollan, Green, Food, Foodie, Alice Waters, Eco, Waylon Lewis, Organic, Gmo, Monsanto, Green News
Waylon Lewis

Even if your idea of being a foodie is, like me, putting together some organic veggie nachos, you'll dig how eloquently, warmly and straightforwardly Michael Pollan communicates to the masses.

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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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Big Agriculture Wants To Plow Under Climate Bill

Grist | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Farming, Climate Legislation, Gmo, Monsanto, Climate Bill, Green News

If the ag giants get their way, they could seriously compromise the legislation's ability to mitigate climate change. Few deny that changes in agricul...

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Protecting the Rights of Mother Earth

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Monsanto, Family Planning, Population Control, Earth Friendly, Overpopulation, Mother Earth, Sustainable Agriculture, Sustainable Farming, Planned Parenthood, Green News
Danielle Cavallucci

A Monsanto ad really set me off with their "sustainable agriculture" full pager in the New York Times last week. How about answering the Earth's ple...

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