Posts by Kelly L. Derricks

Today, Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) is set to introduce a bill that would preempt state mandatory GMO labeling efforts. The bill, strongly backed by The Grocery Manufacturer’s Association (GMA), Monsanto and the Koch brothers, would give ultimate authority of the issue over to the FDA. This is concerning because the FDA favors a voluntary approach to the extremely controversial issue. The FDA also tends to side with biotech on the GMO issue. If this bill comes to pass, where does that leave the public’s demand for the right to know what is in their food? Thankfully, pro-GMO labeling groups are determined to keep lawmakers from backing the Pompeo bill. Groups including Just Label It stormed over a hundred offices on [...]
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The citizens of Vermont want GMO foods to be labeled. As NaturalSociety’s Anthony Gucciardi reported in 2013, a bill which has already passed the House awaits a final O.K. by the Senate. If Monsanto gets their way though, as made evident in heated testimony given at the Statehouse this past Wednesday before a Judiciary Committee, not only will the bill get stalled in the Senate, but Monsanto points to the fact that the state will have to spend around a million dollars just to defend the bill in court. Image credit: mintpressnews.com You can guess who is on Monsanto’s latest pay-roll. Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee warned that, although he ‘supports [...]
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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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(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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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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