Tag: food
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Big Biotech Sues Little Island Over GMO Law
By Maureen Nandini Mitra As was expected, Big Biotech’s legal juggernaut has rolled into action in Hawai’i. On Friday afternoon, three big agrochemical companies—Pioneer-DuPont, Syngenta and Agrigenetics Inc. (a subsidiary of Dow Chemical)—filed a suit in a federal court in Honolulu seeking to block Kaua’i County’s new genetically modified organism (GMO) regulatory law. Two other big agribusiness…
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Maine Governor Signs GMO Food Labeling Bill
Maine Gov. Paul LePage signed legislation today making Maine the second state to require labeling for genetically engineered (GE) foods. The GE food labeling will not take effect until five contiguous states enact similar legislation. [caption id="attachment_317454" align="alignnone" width="500"] Polls show 90-95 percent of Americans want GE food labeling. In 2013, 50 bills were introduced…
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World Fertilizer Use Reaches Diminishing Returns
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What’s the Cost of Putting Wild-Caught Seafood on the Table? 650,000 Marine Mammals Killed or Injured Annually
In order to put wild-caught seafood on dinner tables, more than 650,000 marine mammals are killed or seriously injured every year in foreign fisheries after being hooked, entangled or trapped in fishing gear, and enforcement of a U.S. law to protect marine mammals could help prevent tens of thousands of these deaths, according to a…
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Groups Challenge USDA’s Proposed Deregulation of GE Corn and Soybeans
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released for public input its Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) on Friday, which calls for the deregulation of genetically engineered (GE) corn and soybeans engineered to be tolerant to the toxic herbicide 2,4-D. [caption id="attachment_317067" align="alignnone" width="500"] The new varieties of GE crops are being produced by Dow AgroSciences under the brand…