A broad community of independent scientific researchers and scholars challenges claims of a 'consensus' that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are 'safe' to grow and eat. The claims - which continue to be widely and often uncritically aired - are a false and artificial construct that have been misleadingly perpetuated through diverse media.
… colleagues | 23rd February 2015 News GMOs Food Farming Health Science … [7]. There is no consensus on GM food safety Regarding the safety of GM crops and foods for human and animal health, a …
The very first GE product, a dietary supplement, poisoned thousands of people of which dozens died, writes Steven M. Druker. The first GE food, the 'Flavr Savr' tomato, caused stomach lesions. But a long campaign of concealment and deception by regulators and corporate scientists re-engineered the truth to present GMOs as so safe they did not even need to be tested for safety.
… The GMO food venture is built on a foundation of mass … GMOs Science Corporations Regulation Toxics Food Farming … died, writes Steven M. Druker. The first GE food, the 'Flavr Savr' tomato, caused stomach … reconfigure the genetic core of the world's food supply has substantially relied on the …
Thanks to pro-GMO politicans and lobbying by powerful agribusiness interests the UK and other EU countries may soon find supermarket shelves flooded with GM foods, both imported and home grown, writes Linda Kaucher. We must press parliamentary candidates now to defend us from this serious and long-term debasement of our food and farming.
… TTIP could soon bring GM foods to UK supermarket shelves Linda Kaucher | 2nd April 2015 News Food Farming GMOs Trade Regulation UK EU … soon find supermarket shelves flooded with GM foods, both imported and home grown, writes …
As the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations enter their last few days, Ellen Brown exposes their real purpose - corporate control of the world's food, health, environment and financial systems. Of all these, the greatest is food ...
… Monsanto, the TPP and global food dominance Ellen Brown | 7th December 2013 News Trade WTO Politics Food GMOs Gm Food soyabeans.png As the Trans-Pacific …
Pro-GMO US senators have a dastardly plan to deny states the right to require GMO labeling, writes Steven M. Druker, by attaching their DARK Bill as a rider to the Appropriations Bill next week. Now is the the time to wake up senators to the Bill's true intent, and to the deceit, illegal behaviour and scientific falsification that has kept the dangers of GMO foods a well kept secret - so far.
… that has kept the dangers of GMO foods a well kept secret - so far. An ardent … the labeling of genetically engineered foods - made especially urgent by the fact … effect July 1st. Although proponents of these foods scored a major victory in July when they …
The 'Biotechnology Food Labeling Uniformity' bill has been introduced to the US Senate to require clear, simple labelling of GMOs nationwide - informing consumers while saving manufacturers from a confusing patchwork of state regulations. Could it defeat the dreaded DARK Act?
… law The Ecologist | 3rd March 2016 News GMOs Food Law Politics Regulation USA Corporations … dark-act-cut.jpg The 'Biotechnology Food Labeling Uniformity' bill has been … consumers can find GMO ingredient labeling on food packaging, while ensuring food producers …
Five international judges say Monsanto's activities have negatively affected individuals, communities and biodiversity, writes Claire Robinson. The Monsanto Tribunal's damning ruling denounces the company's harmful impacts on food sovereignty, agricultural production, access to nutrition, the natural environment, seed diversity, climate change, pollution and traditional cultural practices.
… isn't feeding the world - it's undermining food security Claire Robinson GMWatch | 24th April 2017 News Corporations Law Farming Food GMOs Health Seeds Pesticides … denounces the company's harmful impacts on food sovereignty, agricultural production, …
Consumers beware - the US food industry is working overtime urging lawmakers to sponsor a Bill to prevent pro-active labeling of GMO foods at a State level.
… GMO labelling - Big Food fights back Meg Berlin | 14th January 2014 News Gm Food GMOs Food Farming USA Consumers beware - the US …
Impossible Foods responds to Vandana Shiva on the industrialisation of fake foods.
… Konrad | 18th June 2019 News Impossible Foods GMOs Vegetarianism And Veganism … Impossible Foods responds to Vandana Shiva on the industrialisation of fake foods. For decades, Vandana Shiva has been an …
Scotland's small-scale farmers have welcomed their government's decision to prevent the growing of GM crops, aimed at enhancing the country's 'clean, green status', among a coalition of green NGOs.
… The Ecologist | 10th August 2015 News Farming Food UK Scotland GMOs EU … gambling with the future of our £14 billion food and drink sector." The Scottish … the technology. As stakeholders in Scotland's food system, we recognise the importance of …
The small state of Vermont is changing the face of US food as companies hasten to comply with its GMO labeling rule which comes into effect in July 2016. Mars and General Mills - and now Kelloggs and ConAgra - are the latest companies to announce their labels will comply with Vermont law US-wide - and many more are sure to follow.
… Oliver Tickell | 22nd March 2016 News GMOs Food Law Politics Corporations USA … state of Vermont is changing the face of US food as companies hasten to comply with its … are sure to follow. Three of the US's biggest food companies have yielded to the inevitable …
The European Commission has proposed new rules on foods derived from GMOs that would allow EU countries to opt out from the Europe-wide approval system - a move that has attracted strong criticism from all parties in the GMO debate.
… EuroComm proposes EU country opt-outs on GMO foods Euractiv | 23rd April 2015 News EU USA … European Commission has proposed new rules on foods derived from GMOs that would allow EU … proposed new rules on the approval of food derived from genetically-modified …
Europe is likely to become ''the museum of world farming'' because of the failure to embrace GMOs, UK environment secretary Owen Paterson said today. Fiona Harvey reports ...
… Harvey The Guardian | 7th January 2014 News Food Farming Badger Cull Gm Food GMOs UK paterson-popcorn.png Europe is … If it is licensed, it would be the first GM food crop authorised for planting by the EU in …
Little Vermont is having a big impact on GMO food labeling across the US, writes Lawrence Woodward. And with 'regulatory cooperation' under TTIP that influence could reach into the EU. Trouble is, Vermont's labeling law contains major exemptions - on meat products, take-aways and restaurant food, as well as products from animals fed GM feeds. The US, and the EU, deserve better.
… Little Vermont is having a big impact on GMO food labeling across the US, writes Lawrence … - on meat products, take-aways and restaurant food, as well as products from animals fed GM … In a significant development the giant food companies, General Mills, Mars, Kellogg …
Lord Krebs, self-appointed spokesman for industrial agriculture, used the Oxford Farming Conference to attack organic systems for causing more climate change - a claim as demonstrably false as it is ludicrous, writes Peter Melchett. But across the city, the upstart 'real farming' conference was showing the way to a cleaner, greener and healthier future.
… Peter Melchett | 8th January 2015 News Food Farming GMOs Health Climate Change … demoted from the "future for all farming and food" that was heralded in the 1990s. Under … the English Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is happy to forget that …
The EU Parliament is voting tomorrow on the controversial Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) being negotiated between the USA and the EU. But do MEPs realise that the agreement could force European markets open to 'new biotech' foods and crops using advanced GM technologies that do not meet current definitions of 'GMO' within the EU?
… could open EU to 'new biotech' GMO seeds and foods Coroprate Europe Observatory Inf'OGM | … force European markets open to 'new biotech' foods and crops using advanced GM technologies … led to many concerns being raised regarding food and environmental safety standards. One …
As thousands rely on food banks to make it through the winter and a milk price crash threatens the survival of Britain's independent dairy farmers, Colin Tudge - co-founder of this week's Oxford Real Farming Conference - examines the growing need for an agrarian renaissance to tackle the increasingly obvious failings of neoliberal agriculture.
… Colin Tudge | 4th January 2014 News Food Farming Politics Corporations GMOs early-light-cut.jpg As thousands rely on food banks to make it through the winter and a … act radically. The world's global strategy of food and farming is founded on three great …
Genetically modified food is flooding into the UK through the back door. Few consumers know that the meat and dairy products they eat may have been made from animals fed a diet containing GM crops.
… How GM food is finding its way into your diet Andrew Wasley | 22nd February 2014 News Gm Food Farming Food GMOs milking.png Genetically modified …
India celebrates its Independence Day today, writes Colin Todhunter. But the highly visible system of British colonial dominance has been replaced by a new imperial hegemony: the invisible, systemic rule of transnational capital, enforced by global institutions like the World Bank, while US-based global agribusiness corporations have stepped into the boots of the former East India Company.
… poverty, population displacement, bad food, poor health, environmental destruction, … suited to the needs of Western agribusiness, food processing and retail concerns. If you … on the back of NAFTA, in terms of rising food insecurity, bad health and poisoned …
A radical new Seed Law drafted by Venezuelan people, farmers and NGOs was signed into law in the closing days of 2015, write William Camacaro, Frederick B. Mills & Christina M. Schiavoni. Striking back against the corporate takeover of seeds and peddling of GMOs, the Seed Law bans transgenic seeds, protects the country's germplasm, and establishes the legal foundation for a participatory, agroecological food and farming system.
… 2016 News Farming GMOs Seeds Venezuela Food Law Politics watermelon-cut.jpg A radical … for a participatory, agroecological food and farming system. The National Assembly … seed law provides the conditions to produce food "under an agro-ecological model that …
Next to McDonalds, Burger King and KFC, Chipotle's Mexican Grill is a minnow, writes Jonathan Latham. But its decision to go GMO-free will ultimately compel all America's consumer-facing food brands to follow suit - because that's what their customers want. Could this be the beginning of the end of GMOs? That's what Monsanto, Dupont, Bayer and Syngenta fear.
… Jonathan Latham | 20th May 2015 News GMOs Food Farming Corporations USA chipotle-cut.jpg … compel all America's consumer-facing food brands to follow suit - because that's … crack in the solid public front that the food industry has presented on the GMO issue. …
The European Parliament today called on the Commission and member states like the UK to stop funding the 'New Alliance' plan to force export-oriented agribusiness onto Africa. Instead they want support for small-scale family farms and agroecology.
… Tickell | 7th June 2016 News Corporations Aid Food Farming EU Africa GMOs Agroecology … Development Committee on the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition (NAFSN) that calls … NAFSN to contribute to poverty reduction and food security, as the poorest communities risk …
The two largest grocery stores in the United States, Kroger and Safeway, have promised to not sell GMO salmon. Over 9,000 stores nationwide have now committed to being free of the controversial fish.
… The Ecologist | 7th March 2014 News GMOs Fish Food Farming USA Gm Food salmon.png The two largest grocery stores … we have any plans to carry GE salmon. The seafood products we offer will continue to be …
A coalition of fishing, consumer, and environmental groups are suing the FDA for its 'unlawful' approval of Aquabounty's GM salmon, as it relied on treating the fish as an 'animal drug' under a 1938 law, and ignored serious risks to wild salmon and fishing communities.
… fishing organizations is suing the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At issue … of the first-ever genetically engineered (GE) food animal, an Atlantic salmon engineered to … as 'animal drugs' under the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Those provisions …