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• Monsantos control over seed market prompts antitrust inquiry

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 459
  Some 93 percent of soybeans and 80 percent of corn: Those numbers reflect how much of each crop is grown with seeds genetically altered under the patents of agro-giant Monsanto. An antitrust investigation is at hand, as questions about a monopoly status seem not too far off.   »  noticia original
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• Uncertain Peril: A Compelling Look at Genetically Modified Organisms

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  One thing we know for sure is that we just don’t know enough about genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and biotechnology to know that in planting their seeds, we aren’t affecting future generations’ ability to feed themselves. For many people, the fact that they’re corporately controlled and thus make for ...
  5 days ago

• 8 Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  The landscape of health has changed. No longer are our families guaranteed a healthy livelihood, not in the face of the current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer’s and allergies. In the words of Elizabeth Warren , Harvard University law professor who is head of the Congressional Oversight Panel, “We ...
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• Greenpeace to Bayer: ‘Hands off our rice!’

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 135
  Greenpeace today challenged Bayer to stop contaminating the world’s rice supply with GMOs (genetically modified organisms), during a forum on rice genetics sponsored by the giant agrochemical company and hosted by IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) in Manila.
  2 weeks ago

• A Global Analysis: Is Biotechnology Really the Only Way to Solve Hunger?

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  The World Summit on Food Security convened in Rome this week, where world leaders discussed how best to combat worsening worldwide hunger and escalating food prices. Biotechnology has historically been a part of the debate. As a polarizing subject, biotechnology has no peer. On the one hand, it has potential ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Global Analysis: Is Biotechnology Really the Only Way to Solve Hunger?

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 536
  As the World Summit on Food Security convenes in Rome this week, world leaders will debate how best to combat worsening worldwide hunger and escalating food prices. Biotechnology will most certainly be on the table. As a polarizing subject, biotechnology has no peer. On the one hand, it has potential to raise ...
  2 weeks ago

• Brain Chipping: Injectible Micro-Chips in Swine-Flu Vaccination, & ‘Chipped’ Cyborg Nano Babies

  
  EscapeTheIllusion.com — Authority: 129
  Micro-chips that lodge in your brain and fuse with your DNA? Click here to view the embedded video.
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• Kitchen Table Talks No. 6: What You Need to Know About Genetically Engineered Food

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  For the sixth installment of Kitchen Table Talks on Oct. 27, about 60 people gathered at the SUB-Mission Gallery in the Mission District of San Francisco to hear renowned U.C. Berkeley Microbial Ecologist Ignacio Chapela and Center for Food Safety attorney Zelig Golden for a lively conversation about the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Genetically Modified Corn Farmers Breaking The Rules

  
  Food Renegade — Authority: 454
  Tsk. Tsk. As if genetetically-engineered crops weren’t scary enough, a recent study revealed that as many as 37% of farmers planting genetically-modified BT corn crops aren’t complying with federal rules designed to maintain the crop’s resistance to damage from insects. BT corn, you’ll remember, is ...
  3 weeks ago

• World Hunger

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 137
  More and Better : World Summit on Food Security 16-18 November 2009 IISD Daily Reports Feeding the Future - IPS Special Report M ore than 1 billion people suffer hunger today, according to the UN. A crucial part of this complex problem is food production and distribution. Is it possible to increase food ...
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• Labelling of GM ingredients in food

  
  GreensBlog — Authority: 458
  There is a Food Labelling Review taking place in Australia at the moment and its looking at GM food labelling. Many people want to be able to choose whether to buy it or not (for various reasons), and at what price.  We have some GM labelling, but most GM ingredients slip through loopholes. Currently although up to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Americans Against Food Taxes?: Whos Really Fighting Preventative Medicine?

  
  TreeHugger — Authority: 686
  Americans Against Food Taxes It didnt take long. Shortly after several leading health researchers published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine calling for a tax on sugar sweetened beverages as a means of stemming American obesity, an immense lobbying effort to defeat the measure began in Wash... Read the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Europe Moves to Allow Import of Three Varieties of Genetically Modified Corn, Risking Contamination

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  Last week, the European Commission made the decision to allow three types of genetically modified corn to enter the European Union, where genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have been banned in six countries (Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg), and where zero tolerance has been the rule for ...
  3 weeks ago

• Genetically modified corn growers not obeying rules designed to maintain pest resistance

  
  The Ethicurean: Chew the right thing. — Authority: 503
  Stop bugging me: As many as 25% of the American farmers growing genetically engineered corn are no longer complying with federal rules intended to maintain the resistance of the crops to damage from insects, according to a Center for Science in the Public Interest report released Thursday based on EPA records. (CSPI ...
  4 weeks ago

• Attack of the Genetically Modified Flax Seed

  
  Eat. Drink. Better. — Authority: 548
  Nope, it’s not a spooky tale left over from Halloween. After word got out that Canada’s flax seed crops had been cross-contaminated with a genetically modified variety, the country’s entire flax industry is in peril. Read more of this story »
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• The Obama Administration and Food, Year One

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  A year after America voted for the change-agent they saw in Barack Obama, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms. Nearly two years ago, candidate Obama said the following in a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Why we may never get out of climate change alive.

  
  MUNNA ON THE RUN — Authority: 112
  More here. [IMG: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_eckdiJQEOR0/Su3Y47WHZ6I/AAAAAAAACOs/hyEQf5jknQE/s400/alive.jpg][IMG: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_eckdiJQEOR0/Su3Y_RDDHxI/AAAAAAAACO0/sDsoSxV--mU/s400/alive2.jpg]
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• You Are What They Feed You!

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 124
  SF Gray Panthers Newsletter, November, 2009 You Are What They Feed You! The way food is grown, controlled and marketed affects everything from cost to rising numbers of children with diabetes to environmental pollution and the waste of water resources. Lobbyists for agribusiness, an interlocking of chemical ...
  5 weeks ago

• Modified crops reveal hidden cost of resistance

  
  Carbon-Based — Authority: 511
  Penn State Live : Genetically modified squash plants that are resistant to a debilitating viral disease become more vulnerable to a fatal bacterial infection, according to biologists. "Cultivated squash is susceptible to a variety of viral diseases and that is a major problem for farmers," said Andrew Stephenson, Penn ...
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• Cloudy With a Chance of Allergies or Autism?

  
  Civil Eats — Authority: 566
  Ever wonder what this food fiasco is costing us? You and me? Taxpayers? Well, the Economist recently assembled these jaw-dropping food safety stats in a “Farm to Fork” article in their October 9 issue : 1. There are 26,000 food poisoning cases per 100,000 Americans, every year (an eye-popping 26% of the ...
  5 weeks ago

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