Tag: GMOs
USDA grants final approval for Monsanto/Scotts’ genetically engineered grass
"USDA's approval of this genetically engineered grass is as dangerous as it is unlawful."
Monsanto and its minions are poisoning us: How can we defend...
If we can’t trust the government or the large corporations, we need to take matters into our own hands, today and everyday.
Pledge to buy non-GMO
Have you ever asked yourself why our food is being produced and modified by the biotech industry?
China’s top grain producing province bans GM crops
Growing of GM corn, rice and soybean will be banned, while illegal production and sales of GM crops and supply of their seeds will also be prohibited.
Local governments can prohibit GE crops, says U.S. court of appeals
In granting its decision the court recognized potential harm to farmers and environment from the widespread planting of GE crops
Sonoma County voter success leads to largest GMO-free zone in U.S.
On election day, voters in Sonoma County successfully banned the cultivation of genetically modified crops!
EPA approval of Monsanto’s dicamba will ‘massively increase use of toxic...
The Center for Biological Diversity said the new EPA decision will open the door for dicamba use to jump from less than 1 million pounds to more than 25 million annually.
President Obama admits ‘legitimate concerns’ in GMO debate
“If it turns out that some of these genetically modified foods aren’t healthier, aren’t more productive and use more pesticides then we should follow the science.”
USDA approves 2 new varieties of GMO potatoes
It's hardly an exaggeration to say that over the past two decades, the agriculture industry in the U.S. has wholeheartedly embraced GMO crops with gusto
New York Times Takes Critical Look at False Promise of GMOs
Hakim’s conclusion, he points out, is similar to a report from the National Academy of Sciences that found GMO crops have not, to date, increased actual yields and should not be exclusively relied upon to meet long-term food security needs.
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Trump seizes control of DC police, threatens military deployment despite record-low crime
President Donald Trump invokes the Home Rule Act to take over Washington, D.C.’s police department and deploy the National Guard, citing a “crime emergency” that officials say does not exist. Critics call the move an unlawful power grab with authoritarian overtones.
Cults, cults, everywhere—raring to bash majority rule, pluralism, justice, science and rationality. Isn’t that...
Thanks to its own greed, egotism, buffoonery, incompetence, and ruthlessness, the MAGA cult is already splitting apart, squandering its overweening power.
Community organizer slams ‘fascist ICE agents’ after arrest of US citizen documenting raids
ICE has faced widespread backlash over the arrest of community advocates swept up while documenting raids across the country, many of them U.S. citizens.
The FDA let substandard factories ship these medications to the US
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013.
Israel accused of assassinating five Gaza journalists in targeted airstrike
Al Jazeera calls deadly strike on press tent “blatant and premeditated attack on press freedom” as press freedom groups warn of pattern of killings and smear campaigns against reporters in Gaza.