New York Times – Dying to Talk

Monsanto Gives a “World Food Prize”… to itself!

webdev2013-07-02T15:22:40+00:00

How typical. The same company that tells you to believe genetically engineered food is healthy because THEY say it's healthy, has now sponsored a World Food Prize that's been given to... guess who? Their own Robert Fraley, Exec.VP & Chief Technology Officer. Journalist Mark Bittman ("on food and all things related") from the New York Times makes a grand case for a "Food Sovereignty Prize" to showcase the many people around the world who are actually working to create a sustainable and fair food system. (We could nominate some of our farmer-veterans in "Ground Operations"!) Zeyaur Khan, a plant pathologist in [...]

GMO Labeling on a Federal Level? Maybe CA Won After All!

2013-04-30T23:24:10+00:00

Naturally, we were disappointed when Prop. 37, to require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered ingredients in food, was defeated in California last election. Nor were we surprised that Monsanto and Big Food (the dozen companies that own all the food in the supermarket, under a variety of labels) came out with guns blazing and $40 million in false advertising to kill the bill. We fully expected that other states would line up for their own ballot initiatives to require full disclosure of GE food and they did; Washingon state, New Mexico, Connecticut and others stepped up to carry on the fight for [...]