Does India’s GMO Cut the Mustard?
Amidst concerns that India’s GMO mustard variety could potentially hurt human health and damage mustard’s natural gene pool, the Modi government in India will have to decide on the status of the new seed. Chief developer of the GM mustard is Deepak Pental, a Delhi University professor, and he claims the variety can push up yields by 25-30 percent over non-GM varieties. What isn’t clear, however, is the research...
Monsanto Wins The Rubber Dodo Award
Monsanto wins! Monsanto wins! Well… sort of. I mean, Monsanto wins the Rubber Dodo Award. Earlier this month, Monsanto was the recipient of the Center for Biological Diversity’s 2015 Rubber Dodo Award, one of the biggest awards you DO NOT EVER want to win. What’s the Rubber Dodo Award for? It’s …given annually to those who have done the most to destroy wild places, species and biological diversity. The...
Glyphosate Lawsuits
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s best-selling herbicide Roundup, is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the world. Back in March The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced that they consider glyphosate to be “probably carcinogenic to humans.” Now people are beginning to sue. The glyphosate lawsuits claim Monsanto knew more about...
Fighting E. Coli With GMOs?
Anyone who’s ever had an E. coli infection won’t forget it quickly. Last May, 16 people became sick from E. coli linked to clover sprouts. Another outbreak at the same time had 12 people sick from ground beef, and last year 33 people fell ill from ready-made salad mix. And that’s just to name a few. Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) is the one most commonly heard about in the news in association with foodborne...
A Nutty Kind of GMO
GMO PEANUTS If you have a peanut allergy, the thought of actually eating a peanut can be downright frightening. But what if you could eat an allergy-free GMO peanut? Would you trust it? Thanks to the revolutionary genome editing technology CRISPR/Cas9, there’s a new kind of GMO, and the proteins that cause peanut allergies may be tweaked so you no longer have a reaction. Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are typically made...
Autism and GMOs?
When Mike and Linda Gioscia’s son, Ethan, was diagnosed with autism, the parents investigated possible causes. Immediately they cut out sugar, then switched to organic food. Next they started researching genetically modified organisms. The information Mike and Linda found was overwhelming, unclear, and confusing, so they made their own call. Even without scientific evidence of harm, they decided to cut out GMOs. “Now we’re...
RESOLVING THE CONTROVERSY
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