Just How BIG is Big Agribusiness?
If you’ve never actually looked at the numbers, you might have no real idea just what big agribusiness, or BIG AG, actually amounts to here in the US. Recently released numbers from agricultural giant Archer Daniels Midland show that it suffered a 22% drop in revenue in the 4th quarter 2015. How much did a 22% drop affect their revenue? What did that steep decline translate to dollars-wise? Let’s look at the 4th...
Monsanto GMO Patent on Melons Denied
After a January 20th hearing in Munich Germany, The European Patent Office has revoked a false Monsanto GMO patent on melons. The Europe-based coalition No Patents on Seeds spearheaded the opposition. According to their press release, Monsanto claimed melons with a natural resistance to plant viruses was its own invention even though the resistance was already detected in indigenous melon varieties in India. As The Hindu explains,...
GE Salmon — FDA Issues Import Alert Until Labeling Guidelines Complete
Right after we reported on both gmo-related parts of the Senate’s controversial omnibus spending bill, the FDA announced its temporary ban on GE salmon, in order to comply with the new law the bill created. Here’s what the agency announced on their website Saturday (1/29/16)– The Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Omnibus Appropriations Act covering the funding of the federal government during fiscal year 2016 (FY16) was signed...
The Hypocrisy of Passing GE Salmon Labeling in a Spending Bill
Yesterday we documented the Senate shenanigans on last month’s omnibus spending bill, where an anti-GMO labeling contingent pushed hard to sneak in a rider that would ban state-by-state GMO labeling laws, among other anti-GMO labeling whoppers. But there was a second part to that story, which favored the pro-labeling side, particularly related to GE salmon labeling. Per The Hill — The $1.1. trillion bill to fund the...
The Senate Won’t Block GMO Labeling? Just Sneak It In On a Spending Bill Instead
When H.R. 1599 (referred to by labeling proponents as The DARK act – Denying Americans the Right to Know) passed last July, it was up to the Senate to decide what would happen next. Pro-labeling advocates were pleased when the bill died in the Senate last September, but anti-GMO labeling interests then began pushing for the inclusion of a rider to the recent omnibus spending bill. The rider would have nullified state laws...
Glyphosate a Carcinogen? Monsanto Sues California to Prove Otherwise
Monsanto just filed a lawsuit against California to try prevent the state from listing glyphosate (Roundup’s main ingredient), as a carcinogen. Monsanto sued the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) on Thursday in Fresno County Court, seeking an injunction to stop it from glyphosate to the state’s Proposition 65 list of chemicals known to cause cancer, birth defects or other reproductive harm. Last...
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