How Are GMOs Different?
“Farmers have genetically modified food for centuries.” That’s a statement the House of Representatives Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) made near the beginning of a key hearing on regulating GMOs. It’s a quick rebuttal and a frequent talking point from the pro-GMO side of the GMO controversy. But is it the truth? How are GMOs different from other genetic manipulations we’ve done for centuries like Selective Breeding, Cross-breeding...
Mars Agrees to Label GMOs
Mars Inc. responded to the call to label GMOs on their products, now specifically labeling M&M’s, Milky Way, 3 Musketeers and the much-loved Snickers. The company is also working to remove all artificial coloring, due to consumer demand, but they claim GMOs are safe and they’re only adding GMO labels to comply with Vermont’s labeling law which goes into effect this July. “Food developed through...
General Mills Reluctantly Agrees to GMO Labeling
General Mills will begin labeling GMOs, but they don’t sound thrilled about it. Vermont’s state law, which will enforce GMO labeling by July 1st, has prompted General Mills to go ahead and make the change. “We can’t label our products for only one state without significantly driving up costs for our consumers, and we simply won’t do that,” Jeff Harmening, head of General Mills’ U.S. retail operations, said in a post on a...
EU GMO Regulation Under Fire
Recently we’ve talked about how, in the Netherlands, lobbyists are pushing for a change in the EU GMO regulation of cisgenesis. It isn’t just the Netherlands, however, hoping for this deregulation — biotech advocates throughout Europe are pushing for this same deregulation at the EU level as well. The industry’s lobbying group has been working hard — The trail of Freedom of Information requests over the...
Netherlands Works to Deregulate Cisgenesis
The fight to exclude cisgenesis from EU regulation has been ongoing for years in the Netherlands. The term ‘cisgenesis’ refers to the insertion of genes from the same or closely related species into a recipient plant, in contrast with transgenesis, whereby genes from another species are introduced. In general, the Dutch people are opposed to GMOs, yet the the Dutch Government has been pushing for deregulation of cisgenic...
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