Tag: GMOs

The majority of Americans support labeling for GMOs and will hold their elected officials accountable for stripping away this transparency.

“There is no comparison between the actual scientific consensus that global warming is real and man-made, and the phony ‘scientific’ ‘consensus’ that GMOs are safe.”

Following intense consumer backlash, a number of major food companies such as Wendy’s, McDonald’s and Gerber expressed that they had no plans to source or sell the GMO apple.

Monsanto, the biotech giant, has become the poster-child for all that’s wrong with our industrial food and farming system.

Despite the continued fight from public health and climate activists, genetically modified salmon has been officially authorized for sale in Canada.

Dannon will work with farmers to maintain company wide standards for animal welfare and soil standards.

Nestlé will be removing all GMOs from six of its top selling ice cream brands.

Those predicting an easy Senate defeat for mandatory labeling saw corporations fold one by one in the face of a strong food movement.

Monsanto’s latest earnings report comes amid a wave of companies announcing plans to label genetically modified ingredients to comply with Vermont’s law, resulting in many large food corporations losing profits.

Besides the potential contamination of local maize varieties, the groups argued that the health risks of introducing GMO maize into Nigeria could be “enormous” considering that maize is a staple food in their diet.