Category: Health Transparency

Myth: GMOs Help Family Farmers and Benefit the Economy

While purveyors of this technology, like Monsanto, reap incredible financial rewards, studies indicate that small farmers are being squeezed out of the industry or are forced to be little more than sharecroppers, perpetually in debt to the large companies that hold their crops hostage: • In 2013, Monsanto sued 500 farmers for patent violations. Farmers… Continue reading Myth: GMOs Help Family Farmers and Benefit the Economy

Myth: GMOs Can Coexist With Organic and Conventional Crops

The ability of conventional and organic farmers to produce GMO-free food, as well as the ability of consumers to buy GMO-free products, is being threatened by the biotech industry: GMO seeds can drift and contaminate organic crops. More than 30% of farmers seeking to grow organic crops reported that unintended GMO presence has been found… Continue reading Myth: GMOs Can Coexist With Organic and Conventional Crops

Myth: GMOs Are Environmentally Friendly

GMOs are not environmentally friendly, and have not lessened the use of toxic chemicals—in fact, they’ve increased it. Many crops are genetically modified to withstand the use of extremely toxic herbicides like Roundup. However, weeds are becoming increasingly tolerant of Roundup, creating “superweeds;” so much so that a new generation of crops is being engineered… Continue reading Myth: GMOs Are Environmentally Friendly

Myth: GMO Technology is Natural, and Just Like Crossbreeding

The biotech industry would have us believe that genetic modification is “natural,” and the same as crossbreeding (which farmers have undertaken for thousands of years). However: Natural breeding usually only takes place between closely related forms of life—mixing genetic material from different organisms is not “natural.” Take, for example, salmon with antifreeze DNA and tomatoes… Continue reading Myth: GMO Technology is Natural, and Just Like Crossbreeding

GMOs: Respected Analyst Says They Could Destroy Life on the Planet

Invoking the risk of famine as a justification for GMOs is “a deceitful strategy, no different from…Russian roulette,” according to the report. Action Alert! Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a scholar, statistician, Wall Street analyst and advisor, professor at New York University, and the bestselling author of Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan: The Impact… Continue reading GMOs: Respected Analyst Says They Could Destroy Life on the Planet