29 Oct Suspended USDA researcher alleges agency tried to block his research into harmful effects of pesticides on bees, butterflies (The Washington Post) By Anna • October 29, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally published by the Washington Post by Steve Volk October 29, 2015 A prominent Agriculture Department scientist is alleging that he was suspended after complaining that the agency was blocking his research into the harmful effects of pesticides on pollinators, such as bees and butterflies. In a whistleblower complaint filed Wednesday, Jonathan Lundgren, an entomologist […]
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30 Sep Poland opts out of GMOs (Radio Poland) By Anna • September 30, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally published by Radio Poland 9/30/2015 Poland is the latest country to reject genetically modified organisms in their food production, thus exercising a right granted to all EU member states earlier this year Poland is the eleventh country so far to officially abstain from using GM food approved by the European Commission. In a drive […]
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22 Sep We’ve Missed the Entire Point About GMO Food — A Farmer Explains Why (Huffington Post) By Anna • September 22, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally published by Huffington Post by Forrest Pritchard September 22, 2015 When it comes to the subject of GMO (Genetically-Modified Organism) food, it’s hard not to have an opinion. You might be skeptical or inquisitive, outraged or indifferent; perhaps more often than not, you feel a little of each. Still, there’s growing consensus on the […]
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05 Sep Food Industry Enlisted Academics in G.M.O. Lobbying War, Emails Show (New York Times) By Anna • September 5, 2015 • Recent GMO News • 1 Comment
Originally published by the New York Times by Eric Lepton September 5, 2015 At Monsanto, sales of genetically modified seeds were steadily rising. But executives at the company’s St. Louis headquarters were privately worried about attacks on the safety of their products. So Monsanto, the world’s largest seed company, and its industry partners retooled their […]
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05 Sep California EPA Moves to Label Monsanto’s Roundup ‘Carcinogenic’ (East Bay Express) By Anna • September 5, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally published by the East Bay Express by Sam Levin September 5, 2015 The California Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it plans to label glyphosate — the most widely used herbicide and main ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup — as a chemical “known to cause cancer.” The World Health Organization’s research arm also recently found […]
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04 Sep Long exposure to tiny amounts of Monsanto’s Roundup may damage liver, kidneys – study (RT) By Anna • September 4, 2015 • Recent GMO News • 1 Comment
Originally published by RT August 28, 2915 Long-term intake of the Monsanto’s most popular Roundup herbicide, even in very small amounts lower than permissible in US water, may lead to kidney and liver damage, a new study claims. The research, conducted by an international group of scientists from the UK, Italy and France, studied the […]
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04 Sep General Mills pledges $100 million to combat climate change (Grist) By Anna • September 4, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally published by Grist by Katie Herzog August 31, 2015 Last year, the poverty-fighting nonprofit Oxfam slammed 10 big food and beverage companies for not doing enough to fight climate change, and called out General Mills and Kellogg in particular for being “clear laggards.” Now General Mills is trying to get its act together. On Monday, the food […]
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02 Sep The Public Health Ramifications of GMOs and Herbicides (Mercola) By Anna • September 2, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally published by Dr. Mercola by Dr. Mercola September 1, 2015 On August 20, 2015, Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., and Charles Benbrook, Ph.D. published a paper1,2 in the one of the most prestigious medical journals, the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) on the topic of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), herbicides, and public health, […]
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31 Aug Growing Doubt: A Scientist’s Experience of GMOs (Independent Science News) By GMO Inside • August 31, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally Published by Independent Science News by Jonathan R. Latham, PhD August 31, 2015 By training, I am a plant biologist. In the early 1990s I was busy making genetically modified plants (often called GMOs for Genetically Modified Organisms) as part of the research that led to my PhD. Into these plants we were putting […]
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27 Aug Latvia, Greece win opt-out from Monsanto GM Crop (Reuters) By GMO Inside • August 27, 2015 • Recent GMO News • Leave a comment
Originally Published by Reuters by Barbara Lewis August 27, 2015 Monsanto said it would abide by Latvia’s and Greece’s requests under a new EU opt-out law to be excluded from its application to grow a genetically modified (GM) crop across the European Union, but accused them of ignoring science. Under a law signed in March […]
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