As Aquabounty gets closer to FDA approval for genetically modified salmon, we need to take a closer look at this issue. Do you really want to eat salmon with genes from other fish, without even knowing it? Andrew Gunther’s blog explores the issue: News that an “efficient and environmentally sustainable” genetically modified (GM) salmon...
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Source: Center for Food Safety The Center for Food Safety announced last week that a Northern California District judge rescinded the approval of Monsanto’s genetically engineered sugar beets: In September 2009, the Court had found that the USDA had violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by approving the Monsanto-engineered biotech crop without first...
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Source: The Huffington Post By: Andrew Kimbrell, Center for Food Safety It should be no surprise that Monsanto’s PR machine is working hard to spin the truth in this morning’s decision in the first-ever Supreme Court case on genetically engineered crops (Monsanto v. Geertson Seed Farms). Despite what the biotech seed giant is claiming,...
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This article from Treehugger raises an important issue that needs more attention. The arguments mentioned for the use of GMOs are thin at best: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/11/fight-over-future-food-monsanto-gmos-how-to-feed-world.php?dtc=th_ Treehugger also reports on the prevalence of GMOs in our food. It is chilling to think that 70% of processed foods are genetically modified. Did we vote on this?...
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Raj Patel’s Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System (Melville House, 2008) is a sweeping study of the frightening impacts of trade liberalization on food production and distribution. This 319 page-long argument (not including notes) can be a bear to get through, partly because at times it feels like the...
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