GMOs

If our farming ancestors could see what we’ve done with data, the dramatic changes would astonish them.

In an 18-page letter to nine US Cabinet-level officials, Food & Water Watch joined the National Farmers Union to urge the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) to block a proposed acquisition of Swiss agribusiness Syngenta by the Chinese state-owned enterprise ChemChina.

The Senate moved closer to final action on legislation later this week that would preempt a Vermont mandatory labeling law for certain genetically modified foods, advancing a bipartisan measure supported by the food industry but opposed by anti-GMO advocates. The 65-32 bipartisan vote on a procedural motion was delayed briefly by protesters against the GMO agreement but is expected to be approved by the Senate, perhaps yet this week.

Genetically engineered (GE) crops have had “generally favorable economic outcomes” for producers and an extensive two-year review “found no substantiated evidence that foods from GE crops were less safe than foods from non-GE crops,” according to a report released today by the National Academies of Science (NAS).

My country’s government would rather see people starve than let them eat genetically modified food.

The worst thing we can do for people who struggle to feed their families is to make food more expensive.

Campbell Soup Co., breaking ranks with other major U.S. food producers, announced plans to cite genetically modified organisms on product packaging and threw its support behind efforts to create a single mandatory labeling standard.

The federal government on Thursday issued new guidelines for the voluntary labeling of genetically modified foods, outlining what food manufacturers should and should not say.

Monsanto’s MON 87411 was recently deregulated by the USDA. This is the first step in a multi-year process to get the trait approved by regulatory agencies and into the hands of farmers.

Fast-food chain Chipotle’s own website reveals that its “G-M-Over It” marketing slogan - a smear campaign against conventional food and the farmers who grow it - is nonsense.