GEO Watch | Scientists analyze threats posed by new GMO technology, RNAi

On August 18, 2015

By Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. – Moderator’s Note: The last time I reported on emerging genetic engineering (GE) technologies, the Monsanto […]

New study points to accumulation of formaldehyde in GMO soy

On July 15, 2015

Systems Biology Group, International Center for Integrative Systems: GMO Soy Accumulates Formaldehyde & Disrupts Plant Metabolism […]

No scientific evidence of GM food safety

On July 14, 2015

By Nafeez Ahmed – Medium.com, 13 July 2015 Source: https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/no-scientific-evidence-of-gm-food-safety-a1c814d0f70c It is “premature” to declare GM safe due to “incomplete” […]

The Real Costs of Cheap Food

On July 12, 2015

Hans R. Herren, holder of the Right Livelihood Award, demands a global change of food production […] “We need a change towards a sustainable food and agricultural system.”

Stupidity and Intelligence: Science, GMOs and Our Food

On July 1, 2015

By Dr Vandana Shiva – Agroecology, not the mechanistic and blind paradigm of industrial agriculture, is the truly scientific approach […]

Another Common Herbicide Linked to Cancer

On June 29, 2015

[…] a working group of scientists convened by the World Health Organization has taken aim at another widely used herbicide, 2,4-D […]

Glyphosate: Birth defects and reproductive and developmental problems

On June 28, 2015

Studies show that glyphosate and Roundup cause malformations in laboratory animals […]

Deconstructing Indian cotton: weather, yields, and suicides

On June 21, 2015

[…] Annual suicide rates in rainfed areas are inversely related to farm size and yield, and directly related to increases in Bt cotton adoption.

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On June 21, 2015

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Soil, papered over

On June 19, 2015

The rhetoric for taking over food systems and seed supply is always based on ‘improved seed’. But industrial seeds are only ‘improved’ in the context of higher dependence on chemicals […]

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