Tag: Genetically Modified Food
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How do they find horse meat in hamburger?
A relatively new test detected horse meat in European hamburger. We wonder: how do they test this? Could it happen in America? What happens to all the recalled food?
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Department of Justice Quietly Stops Investigating Monsanto for Antitrust Violations
All over Thanksgiving, and with only a tiny press release...
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Label It Yourself: GMO Labeling Goes DIY
Label It Yourself campaign encourages guerrilla GMO labeling in your local grocery store.
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Washington County Bans GMO Cultivation
San Juan County's just-passed ballot initiative bans GMO growing, but doesn't address labeling or sale of products containing genetically modified ingredients.
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Prop 37 Defeated: Next Steps For GMO Labeling
Here's a closer look at Prop 37's defeat and where gmo labeling movement is headed next.
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7 Ballot Initiatives Bucking the Status Quo Passed Yesterday & 1 Upheld It
Marijuana use, Citizens United, fracking, statehood for a US territory, and labeling of GMO ingredients all were voted on in yesterday's election.
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Lies, Dirty Tricks, and $45 Million Kill GMO Labeling in California
Prop 37 fails to pass, but the campaign is still an important step forward in the larger political fight against Big Food, one that raised a lot of awareness about GMOs, food production, and corporate tactics, both in California and nationally.
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Debunking Myths About Prop 37
Opponents of the Prop 37 want to scare you into voting against the bill. Read the truth.
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American Association for the Advancement of Science: Serving Science or Monsanto?
The timing of AAAS's statement on GMO labeling is highly suspicious.
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Scientific Panel Recommends 10 Year Ban on GM Crop Trials in India
The recommendations aren't binding, but also call for a removal of government advisors with conflicts of interest over GM crops.
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Busted: Food Myths Brought to You by Corporate Front Groups
The messages Food MythBusters aims to correct are brought to us not only by those companies with a vested interest in promoting pesticides and biotechnology, but also by a host of less obvious sources. Here are some of them.
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Prop. 37, California's GMO-Labeling Law, Gaining Momentum
More and more are getting behind the right to know gmo labeling movement.
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California Newspaper Editorial Boards Spread False Claims and Faulty Logic on Proposition 37
While you can’t expect every paper to endorse your side, Proposition 37, eems to have had a string of incredibly bad luck. So incredible, in fact, that the reasoning behind several California newspaper endorsements of a No vote has me scratching my head.
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New Report: Americans Eating Their Weight in Genetically Engineered Food
EWG crunches the numbers and reveals some disconcerting figures.
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Did Monsanto Write This Anti-GMO Labeling Op-Ed Signed by a UC Davis Professor?
A recent professors op-ed looks like it was pretty much cut-and-pasted from anti-GMO labeling literature, opposed to California's Prop 37.
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GMO Crops Leading to Increased Pesticide Use in US
Since their introduction in the mid-1990s genetically modified crops have failed to deliver on promised reductions in rates of herbicide use, with yearly increases in use climbing recently.
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12 Green Questions I'd Ask If I Were Moderating a 2012 Presidential Debate
Some passing questions about green issues may make it into the upcoming presidential debates, but given the seriousness of these issues I'd have a special green debate. This is what I'd start by asking.
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UC Davis Reports Make Dubious Claims on Prop 37
Two "expert" reports have emerged from the No on 37 campaign—which is against the California ballot initiative that would require labeling of GMOs foods—that warrant more scrutiny.
