Monthly Archives March 2014

5 Companies Against Genetically Modified Foods

by Kelly L. Derricks | March 18, 2014

As consumers become more health conscious and knowledgeable about what they are eating and where it comes from, more are demanding to know if the food they eat contains GMOs. That’s resulting in both national and state-specific movements. Roughly 37 states are proposing that food labels contain whether the product contains GMOs, according to Right to Know GMO – A Coalition of States, which of course are meeting resistance from companies like Monsanto (MON_), DuPont (DD_) and others that create GMO seeds for large commercial crop growing. Many countries already have similar labeling. We’ve already seen smaller natural foods and specialized companies move to taking out foods sourced from GMOs from [...]
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Monsanto Squares Off With Farmers Over Agent Orange Herbicide

by Kelly L. Derricks | March 14, 2014

American farmers are among the biggest supporters of genetically modified crops on the planet, saying you can’t argue with the results of higher yields for less work, in spite of concerns — especially in Europe — about Frankenfoods. But even U.S. farmers have their limits. They’re going public in what to date has been a back-room battle with two big agricultural giants over the kinds of herbicides that can be sprayed on certain crops. The details might sound like a chemistry lesson to some, but the farmers believe what’s at stake is not only their livelihoods but possibly the social fabric of America’s farming communities. The problem: One agricultural company has agreed with the farmers’ concerns [...]
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Monsanto’s Chemical Weapon & Your Food

by Kelly L. Derricks | March 4, 2014

“If we continue to think that the fight against Monsanto is only about GMO’s, we have already lost.” ~ KLD On October 2, 2013, COVVHA President and Co-Founder, Kelly L. Derricks, attended VVA’s national Town Hall Meeting Held at West Chester University in Pennsylvania. The video below is Kelly’s 5 minute family panel speech. The evening panel video with Kelly will be released next week. Kelly also serves as March Against Monsanto’s Agent Orange Education Director. Please support Children of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance’s Facebook page. If you are the son or daughter of a Vietnam Veteran, please email COVVHA@GMAIL.COM for private support group [...]
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Organic Farmers Demand USDA Intervention Over GMO Contamination

by Kelly L. Derricks | March 3, 2014

(Reuters) – Growing crops free from contamination by genetically modified crops and the pesticides used on those biotech versions is getting more difficult and more costly for U.S. farmers, and new government rules to control contamination are needed, according to report issued on Monday by an environmental organization and an organic food group.Based on information from 268 farmers from 17 U.S. states, the report said more than 30 percent of farmers seeking to grow organic crops reported that unintended GMO presence has been found or suspected on their farms, according to the report by Food & Water Watch and the Organic Farmers’ Agency for Relationship Marketing (OFARM). The report comes as [...]
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Global Twitter Storm To Support Professor Seralini’s Unethically Retracted Rat Study On GMO Danger

by Kelly L. Derricks | March 2, 2014

On March 2nd at 5 pm PST, please join a global show of unity for Professor Giles Seralini and the infamous rat study that proved the detrimental harm that GMOs cause and help the #SupportSeralini twitter storm. We will be tweeting the #SupportSeralini hashtag alongside the #Oscars hashtag to raise as much awareness for the unethical and unwarranted retraction perpetrated by a former Monsanto executive. Join the event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1399710020289019/1406918139568207/?notif_t=plan_mall_activity The March Against Monsanto and The Anti Media facebook pages will have tons of memes to be shared in addition to the following list of sample tweets and links to research and [...]
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