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Turns Out Nearly Everyone Wants GMO Labeling

by Steve Holt Despite strong opposition from many food companies and an apparent lack of political will, the tide may finally be turning toward policies that support consumers’ right to know what’s in...

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GMO Feed Creates Physical Ailments in Animals

New research is showing some troubling information about animals on the receiving end of industrial agriculture’s big GMO experiment. By Katherine Paul, Alternet A culture that views pigs as inanimate...

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GMO Labeling Backers Outspend Foes In Washington

By JOHN RYAN Backers of a Washington state ballot initiative to require labels on genetically modified foods have raised four times more cash than their opponents. Both sides’ contributions have come...

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New Hampshire Initiates Bill to Label Genetically-Modified Foods

by Michelle Schoffro Cook Now that genetically-modified foods will soon require labeling in Maine, New Hampshire is considering following suit. The House subcommittee has begun work on a GMO-Labeling...

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Just Because Science Can Genetically Engineer Foods, Doesn’t Mean We Should

by Beth Hoffman Recently the debate over genetically modified (GMO) foods has heated up again.  In just the past few weeks, articles about GMOs have appeared in Slate, the New York Times, and Grist....

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Monsanto puts $4.6 million into fight against GMO labeling

Monsanto has contributed $4.6 million to fight Initiative 522, the measure on this fall’s ballot that would require labeling of genetically engineered foods sold at retail. By Melissa Allison Seattle...

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“Extreme” Levels of Roundup Detected in Food

BY LEAH ZERBE, A new study finds worrisome levels of Roundup inside of people food. You probably wouldn’t knowingly eat a substance known to induce death in human cells. But that’s what millions of...

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Vermont governor signs GMO food labeling into law

By Dana Ford and Lorenzo Ferrigno, CNN, (CNN) — Vermont’s governor on Thursday signed a bill into law that will require the labeling of genetically modified foods — hailing it as the first such law in...

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US pressures El Salvador to buy GMO seeds

via RT.com As one of the preconditions to authorizing close to $300 million in aid, the United States is pressuring El Salvador to purchase genetically modified seeds from Monsanto instead of non-GM...

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Americans weigh in on GMO labeling in new poll

via AP WASHINGTON – A large majority of Americans support labeling of genetically modified foods, whether they care about eating them or not. According to a December Associated Press-GfK poll, 66...

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