Getting genetically engineered foods properly labeled is an uphill battle, and Big Food is spending huge sums to make sure that doesn’t happen. Here’s what you can do about it.
Tag: Big Agro
USDA Offers the Biotech Industry Blanket Immunity for Contaminating Organic Crops
USDA calls it “coexistence,” but it’s just a way for GMO farmers to harm whomever they like—without consequence. Action Alert!
Remember the Old Phrase “Buying a Pig in a Poke”?
That’s when something is presented in a way that conceals its true nature—which is the case right now in Michigan. Action Alert!
Special Investigative Report: Will GMOs Really Feed the World?
That’s what genetic engineering advocates claim. But science (and a shocking number of developing-world suicides) debunk this myth.
Big Farma Convinces FDA to Take a Dive
Just as everyone was making last-minute holiday preparations, the FDA quietly announced they would no longer try to restrict the routine use of antibiotics in animal feed. An Action Alert update!
Comparing Apples and Oranges? It’s Easy When They’re Both Genetically Engineered
Will we soon wake up to GMO orange juice? Plus more on apples, sugar beets, court decisions, and Hillary Clinton’s attempt to push GMO on Africa.
Who’s Trying to Scuttle the Amendment that Protected Organic and Family Farms? Big Food on the Attack!
Today we reveal the thirty agribusiness front groups and industrial agriculture lobbyists that continue to fight the Tester amendment.
Why Genetically Engineered Crops Threaten Your Health
GMO foods haven’t made it to the front page, but they could be putting most of us at risk. If you listen to political talk-radio, you may have been puzzled by recent ads about seeds. Why would anyone be concerned about access to seeds? Because approximately 82 percent of the global seed supply is patented and owned by a handful of big corporations.
Food Safety and the FDA
According to the editors of Scientific American in the April 2009 issue, “the security of our food supply is at risk—in ways more noxious than anyone had feared.” The article referred to the FDA’s action in 2008 regarding the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics in farm animal production.