China GMO Ban – Schools Will Ban GMO Food
Trying to get a good read on China’s stance regarding GMOs, but not having any luck? Join the club! According to The Library of Congress, China’s Five-Year Plan on National Economic and Social Development for 2011–2015 was to speed up the innovation and application of biotechnology breeding in agriculture. And bloomberg.com says China seems intent on developing it’s own bioengineered seeds rather than importing...
GMOs in Eggs?
According to the USDA, eggs are not a genetically modified or bioengineered food. Even when a laying hen eats genetically engineered feed, the USDA claims any products unique to genetic engineering are destroyed by the hen’s digestive process. And The National Egg Board has several studies claiming this as well. But there are those who aren’t convinced, including thesustainablelife.us. We find these reports laughable when we...
GE Diamondback Moth to the Rescue?
UK-based biotechnology company, Oxitec, genetically engineers creepy crawlers, including the yellow fever mosquito. Now another genetically engineered insect, the GE diamondback moth, is joining their buggy lineup. Through a Cornell University project in New York state, Oxitec is field-testing a genetically engineered version of the diamondback moth. The moth is considered a global pest to agriculture, in particular to plants in the...
Is Glyphosate Toxic or Not? Let’s Talk Formulations
When the WHO’s (World Health Organization) leading cancer experts classified glyphosate as a “probable human carcinogen”, many GMO opponents hoped the statement would be enough to run the herbicide out of production. But recently, the EU made its own big announcement: Glyphosate is “unlikely to cause cancer” said the authors of the new report by the European Union Food Safety Authority (EFSA). How is it...
7 Things You Need to Know About the FDA’s Approval of GMO Salmon
GMO Salmon Is Officially on Its Way The FDA just approved genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon, produced by the company AquaBounty. They engineered the salmon by adding a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon and a promoter gene from an ocean pout. Ocean pout is an eel-like fish that can grow year-round in freezing waters, and as an article by Tim Schwab from Food & Water Watch put it, “is only as closely related to...
Non-Organic Foods and Weight Gain
For months I was trying to lose those pesky three or four pounds, but no matter what I did, I just couldn’t break the barrier. Until this week! Believe it or not, I switched to organic-almost-everything, and the pounds fell off. Can I be 100% certain it’s due to organic food? No. But odds are pretty good that it’s related. For one, I didn’t exercise anymore than usual — in fact, I may have exercised...
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