Tag: gmo
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New World Next Week: Episode177 – GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode177 – GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Original Cheerios to Go GMO-Free Non-GMO Cheerios More Marketing Boon Than Health Boost?…
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USDA moves forward with herbicide-resistant GMO seeds
from RT.com: The commercial use of new herbicide-resistant, genetically modified corn and soybean seeds moved one step closer to reality on Friday when the United States Department of Agriculture announced their introduction in limited quantities. The new seeds have been genetically engineered by Dow AgroSciences to survive the hefty application of 2,4-D, a widely used…
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Non-GMO Cheerios More Marketing Boon Than Health Boost?
from nbcnews.com: A non-Frankenfood Cheerios may not make much of a difference to consumers’ health, but it could deliver some benefits to General Mills’ bottom line. Opponents of genetically modified foods cheered the cereal maker’s announcement Thursday that its original flavor Cheerios now is made without GMOs and will be on store shelves soon.
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Top 10 GE Labeling Stories of 2013
from foodfreedomgroup.com: 2013 has been an amazing year in the fight for GE labeling! We have seen the first passage of GE lableing laws on the state level, the introduction of legislation on the national level and the fight for GE labeling has come to the forefront of food issues here in the U.S. As…
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Scientists Condemn Retraction of GMO Rat Tumor Study
from activistpost.com: Scientists from around the world have united to condemn the retraction by the editor of the Elsevier journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (FCT) of the pioneering study on genetically modified (GM) maize and Roundup herbicide, conducted by Prof Gilles-Eric Séralini and his team at the University of Caen, France. The study found that…
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China Rejects Shipments of GMO Corn
from latimes.com: China rejected two shipments — almost 546,000 tons — of U.S. dried distillers’ grain, a corn byproduct, because it contained genetically modified material, state media reported Friday. China’s top food-quality watchdog rejected the two shipments because they contained MIR162, a special insect-resistant variety of maize developed by Syngenta, a Swiss maker of seeds and pesticides. …
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Big Food Wants to Call GMO Foods ‘Natural’
from grist.org: Is genetically engineered food natural? The Grocery Manufacturers Association, a trade group representing some of the world’s biggest food and food-related companies, including ConAgra Foods, Bayer CropScience, and the Coca-Cola Company, thinks so. And it’s pressing the Food and Drug Administration to see things its way… An Environmental Working Group rep told The…
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What An ‘#Organic’ Food Label Should Mean
from latimes.com: Mandatory GMO labeling of all food will continue to arouse passions on both sides of the issue. Though it may not satisfy all GMO-labeling advocates nor be welcomed by all leaders in the biotechnology industry, allowing a GMO-free organic label provides more choice in the marketplace and responds to the demands of millions…
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New World Next Week: Episode176 – New World Next Year 2014
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode176 – New World Next Year 2014 Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Pilato’s 2013 Story: The End of Money ‘What is Bitcoin’ Among Top US Google Searches in…
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Video: Origins & Aims of GMO
from fairdinkumradio.com: F. William Engdahl joins Leon Pittard to discuss the origins and aims of GMO. Engdahl is an award-winning geopolitical analyst, strategic risk consultant, author, professor and lecturer. He has been researching and writing about the world political scene for more than thirty years. His most recent works trace the strategies and events that…
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Connecticut introduces first GMO labeling law in US
from RT.com: The governor of Connecticut hosted a ceremonial signing outside an organic restaurant in the city of Fairfield on Wednesday to commemorate the state’s passing of what could be the first GMO labeling law of its type in the United States. Voters in Connecticut decided back in June to approve a bill requiring that…
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Paula Deen to GMO Labeling: 11 Controversial Food Screwups Of 2013
from huffingtonpost.com: 2013 was a big year for controversies in the food world — from food safety scares that affected multiple continents to the complete decline of an empire for one of the country’s most popular celebrity chefs…
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Tougher Tactics Desperately Needed to Win War on GMO Food
from huffingtonpost.com: As I listened to the ads from the ill-fated campaign to label genetically modified food in Washington, I felt a sickening case of déjà vu. About a year ago, I wrote a controversial article for the Huffington Post, titled “Ten Grassroots Lessons From Monsanto’s Swift Boating of the Prop 37/Label GMO Campaign.” To…
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Monsanto, the TPP, and Global Food Dominance
from globalresearch.ca: Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health,…
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Failed Monsanto GMO Corn Pushed on African Countries with Help from Bill Gates
from naturalsociety.com: Even if you aren’t opposed to genetically modified crops (with all this information, how couldn’t you be) and even if you like Bill Gates and his ventures (but with all this information, how could you), this latest should be enough to get you perturbed. And if you are anti-GMO and knowledgeable of the…