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2015-05-11 | permalink
Retailers want growth, and CPG giants such as Heinz and Kraft are no longer delivering it, said Hain Celestial bosses this week.
2015-05-11 | permalink
The call for Courtenay to adopt an anti-genetically modified organism procurement policy is beginning to germinate into an issue that could grow out of hand.
A motion that directs staff to look at the economic implications and impact of creating the policy narrowly passed in Monday's regular council meeting.
2015-05-11 | permalink
Mothers will unite in homes or community centers across the globe, connected by a live video call, inspiring actions to create healthy communities.
2015-05-07 | permalink
Yesterday’s announcement by Chipotle that it start serving food only made with non-GMO ingredients was not a surprise. After all they have built their brand based on a consistent messaging plan that set them apart from their competition by positioning themselves as doing what is best for the land, farmers, animals, and of course their customers.
2015-05-07 | permalink
The USDA is soliciting public input on its biotech authority.
2015-05-07 | permalink
Civil society activists, including the Food Rights Alliance, caution the MPs against passing the the Bill
2015-05-07 | permalink
The government will provide subsidies to promote GMO-free soya production in Hungary, a Farm Ministry official said.
2015-05-05 | permalink
On Monday, Chipotle Mexican Grill said it was G-M-Over It. All 1,800 or so restaurants would stop serving food that had been genetically modified, making Chipotle the first national chain "to cook only with non-GMO ingredients." And the Internet lost its mind.
2015-05-05 | permalink
When the news broke last week, suddenly we were there: the future. Scientists had edited human DNA, both breaking a long-standing research taboo and crossing yet another thing off the sci-fi-IRL to-do list.
2015-05-05 | permalink
Courts. Federal, state, and local laws. It's difficult to keep up with all of the developments around genetically modified foods.
2015-05-05 | permalink
When a US district court judge in Vermont ruled against powerful food industry groups on Monday, allowing the state’s plans to require food labeling for genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to move forward, it felt like a victory to the many groups advocating for US consumers’ right to know what goes into their food.
2015-05-05 | permalink
Since GMOs were approved for commercial use, and then first planted into U.S. soil in 1996, their production has increased dramatically. More than 90% of all soybean cotton and corn acreage in the U.S. is used to grow genetically engineered crops.
2015-04-30 | permalink
How industry, law firms and the European Commission worked together on EU “trade secrets” legislation - a threat to consumers, journalists, whistleblowers, researchers and workers.
2015-04-30 | permalink
The Commission today adopted 10 new authorisations for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) for food/feed use, 7 renewals of existing authorisations and also the authorisation for the importation of 2 GMO cut flowers (not for food or feed). These GMOs had gone through a full authorisation procedure, including a favourable scientific assessment by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA). The authorisation decisions do not cover cultivation.
2015-04-30 | permalink
Last month, Newsweek tweeted: "Synbio was going to save the world. Now it's being used to make vanilla flavoring." Synthetic biology (synbio), for the uninitiated, uses organisms and designs from nature to engineer new tools. The Newsweek article details the synthetic biology industry's failure to produce biofuels from pond scum on a large scale, and how it has now pivoted to produce flavors and fragrances.
2015-04-30 | permalink
China plans to increase its oversight of genetically modified crops due to heightened public concern over Beijing's ability to keep illegal GM products out of the food chain.
2015-04-30 | permalink
A U.S. District Court judge ruled against industry groups' attempt to stop the law, but the battle's still on.
2015-04-28 | permalink
The European Commission adopted 10 new authorisations for Genetically Modified Organismsfor food and feed use, 7 renewals of existing authorisations and also the authorisation for the importation of 2 GMO cut flowers. These GMOs had gone through a full authorisation procedure, including a favourable scientific assessment by the European Food Safety Authority.
2015-04-28 | permalink
Dr. Oz is in trouble again. Last week, ten doctors from around the country sent a letter to the dean of medicine at Columbia, arguing that Dr. Mehmet Oz and his “disdain for science and for evidence-based medicine” have no business holding a faculty position at the university.
2015-04-28 | permalink
The working group on GMOs was not able to produce final conclusions when the National Farming Summit ended Wednesday night.
2015-04-28 | permalink
The United States underscored Friday its opposition to a new European Union plan to allow member states to block genetically engineered imports after bilateral talks on a transatlantic free-trade pact.
2015-04-23 | permalink
Agricultural campaign organisation Green Peace Africa has called on the government to move away from the Genetically Modified Foods debate and invest in ecological farming techniques.
2015-04-23 | permalink
China is set to strengthen supervision of genetically modified plant seeds in an amendment to the country's existing Seed Law. As CRI's Wang Wei reports, the draft amendment has been proposed in the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature.
2015-04-23 | permalink
House Agriculture Committee lawmakers want more control over deciding which government agency -- the Agriculture Department or the Food and Drug Administration -- would control the regulation of labels for genetically modified foods.
2015-04-23 | permalink
The Vanuatu government has confirmed that it threatened the New Caledonian NGO Stop GMO Pacific with deportation if it continued to spread what the government is calling unneccesary propaganda about the danger of GM plant material.
2015-04-23 | permalink
The Commission presents the outcome of its review of the decision-making process for the authorisation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) as food and feed. This review derives from the Political Guidelines presented to the European Parliament in July 2014, on the basis of which this Commission was elected.
2015-04-21 | permalink
Seventeen new genetically modified food products will be authorised for import to Europe before the end of May in a significant acceleration of biotech trade, the Guardian has learned.
2015-04-21 | permalink
I was recently speaking to a member of the animal feed supply chain who informed me that the amount of animal feed (most of which is genetically modified) to Europe equated to the combined weight of every person in the European Union – an almost unimaginable weight of 33 million tonnes.
2015-04-21 | permalink
A growing demand for organics, and the near-total reliance by U.S. farmers on genetically modified corn and soybeans, is driving a surge in imports from other nations where crops largely are free of bioengineering.
2015-04-21 | permalink
This is an interesting article about a small but significant farmer shift from GMO to non-GMO crops in the GMO heartland of Iowa.
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