Tag: genetically engineered food
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Staunch GE Food Advocate Urges Industry to Embrace GMO Labeling
By Alex Formuzis Mark Lynas—maybe the most famous apologist for GMO foods ever—this week urged a gathering of food and biotech industry employees to stop battling the growing movement to label foods made with genetically engineered ingredients. Lynas shocked his audience, convened for a food packing and processing confab called the Center for Food Integrity Summit, when he…
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Celebrate Your Right to Choose Non GMOs
Sales of Non-GMO Project Verified products have reached more than $3.5 billion in the three years since the launch …
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Monsanto to Stop Promoting Genetically Engineered Seeds in Europe
The world’s largest seed company had already sent signals in May that it would no longer lobby the EU to approve cultivation of its GE seeds, but we were waiting for an official confirmation before we could really believe it.
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Obama Administration’s Secret Trade Agreements Threaten Food Safety and Promote GMOs
Designed to grease the wheels of world commerce, the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would force the U.S. and other participating countries to “harmonize” food safety standards. That means all countries …
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The Fake Promises of GE Crops
There’s been a lot of “noise” recently about how genetically engineered (GE) crops can help “feed the world” and that they can help agriculture in a climate-affected world …