COP-10: Biodiversity Convention Hijacked by Corporate Influence
Food Freedom Ed. This report by Anne Petermann recaps the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Nagoya, Japan which met for several days at the end of…
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Leading environmental campaigners flip-flop to support nuclear power and GM foods
Editor’s Note: This propaganda alert claims the environmental movement has been wrong for decades in opposing GMO foods and nuclear power. It’s a clear indication that…
Monsanto’s Super Weeds Come Home to Roost
Charles Marqulis Generation Green There’s been much recent news about Monsanto paying farmers to use its competitors’ herbicides, in what many see as a last…
EU food safety chief forced to quit GM lobby role
Jemima Roberts and Tom Levitt The Ecologist Questions raised over why European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) chair Diana Banati failed to make clear her connections…
Gene Giants Stockpile Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops in Bid to Become Biomassters
Surge in Corporate Patents on “Climate-Ready” Crops Threatens Biodiversity and Signals Grab on Land and Biomass Arctic Doomsday Seed Vault ETC Group Nagoya, Japan —…
Why Monsanto is paying farmers to spray its rivals’ herbicides
Image: Big Grey Mare – Grist Tom Philpott Grist Monsanto’s ongoing humiliation proceeds apace. No, I’m not referring to the company’s triumph in our recent…
Genetically Modified Foods and the Monsanto Initiative
Dees Illustration S. Paul Forrest Activist Post Deception, manipulation, propaganda and profit: These words have become the basis of the American corporate and political landscape…
A Major Legal Victory in the Fight for Hormone-Free Milk
After two years, a federal court has ruled that Ohio’s ban on the labeling of dairy products as hormone-free is unconstitutional. Jeff Deasy Alternet After…
EU to back sale of meat and milk from cloned animal offspring
Sean Poulter Daily Mail The sale of meat and milk from the offspring of cloned farm animals is set to be backed by EU Commissioners…
More Creepy Than GMO, Nanotech Organic?
Bill Lilliston Think Forward The idea that engineered nanomaterials (involving the manipulation of materials at the molecular level) would be allowed in certified organic food…
Cotton Climbs to 140-Year High
Adam Cancryn and Carolyn Cui Wall Street Journal Cotton prices touched their highest level since Reconstruction on Friday, as a string of bad harvests and…
Why patents on seeds and animals result in monopolistic control over the entire food chain
Jonathan Benson Natural News When mankind is permitted to steal from nature and claim it as their own, only disaster awaits. And that is…
Big Ag lobbyist wrote UK government’s report on GM foods
David Gutierrez Natural News Agribusiness lobbyists took an active role in writing a U.K. government report on genetically modified (GM) foods, two former members of…
Monsanto, Dupont compete for dominance of new GM soybeans approved by the USDA
David Gutierrez Natural News The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has now approved the first crop genetically modified for increased consumer appeal, promising to spark…