http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Former Monsanto VP and FDA Deputy Commissioner of Foods Michael Taylor.   Was it a conflict of interest when former Monsanto Vice President Michael Taylor was named as the “Food Czar,” aka the Deputy Commissioner of Foods for then-new President Barack Obama’s FDA? One thing’s for…

http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js // The efforts of millions of concerned citizens, numerous phone and email campaigns, dozens of online petitions, and trips to D.C. to lobby for our right to know were not in vain. Leading the charge today, Senator Jeff Merkely demolished the pro-industry talking points that many of our senators lean on in order to further their…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); For many years people in both the clean (organic) food and vaccine safety movements have been isolated from each other, even though their causes bear many similarities. The issue of genetically modified organisms has been at the forefront of grassroots activists’ consciousness for the past few years as evidenced by the millions that march…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Monsanto has long insisted that its Roundup product, the best-selling herbicide sprayed gratitously on farmland across the country, is safe. But a bombshell report earlier this year linked it to cancer, causing a massive backlash against the St. Louis-based agrochemical giant. Now, the report is being published in full by the World Health…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The mandatory labeling of foods containing GMOs (genetically  modified organism) is a right afforded to residents of over 60 countries around the world. But in the United States, the House of Representatives just voted to ban mandatory GMO labeling with with the passing of a misleading “Safe and Accurate” GMO labeling bill HR1599, dubbed…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The DARK Act passed the House on July 23, 2015 in what was yet another major step toward passing into law a measure that could effectively ban GMO labeling at the statewide level. Despite nationwide polls by major media outlets consistently showing that over 90% of Americans want GMO labeling, a right afforded in over 60 countries around…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); By Tami Canal, MAM Founder  More of our democracy has died today. Despite the nearly 93% of American people that demand GMO labeling, today, the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of mighty corporations and the Grocery Manufacturers Association to circumvent any right We The People have to know what’s in the food we buy and feed…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Food activism has suddenly become hip in Hollywood, and even Brad Pitt is now getting in on the act. Recently, Pitt reached out to the supermarket giant Costco, which was expected to become the number one seller of organic food in the United States, asking them to change something very important about their operations. In 2007, Costco made…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The establishment will tell you that GMO soy and corn are “substantially equivalent” to their organic and non-GMO counterparts until they’re blue in the face. But what happens when independent scientific literature comes out showing the complete opposite of this policy in the United States? The research tends to get ignored, if the past is…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); One of the biggest criticisms of Monsanto has been not just its dangerously untested genetically modified crops and chemicals, but also their desire to control just about everything related to food “from seed-to-table.” The company’s practices are just one example of what has become a nationwide crackdown on food sovereignty and the rights…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The nation of Argentina has been a magnet for new genetically modified soy, corn and other monoculture farming practices, and it hasn’t been easy on many of the local people. One town in particular that has been suffering is Monte Maiz in Cordoba, Argentina, where the director of the local hospital, Hugo Betiol, announced in 2005 that he…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Fish oil supplements are some of the most popular on the market, especially since they’re a source of Omega 3s that many people aren’t getting enough of each day. But now a British company is taking fish oil where it’s never been before: inside the seeds of a plant. According to this article in The Independent, the crop was funded by the…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});   What benefits do genetically modified crops give to the consumer? That’s still a question that hasn’t been answered, or proven for that matter. And yet the GMO experiment has continued on the taxpayers’ dime, both in the United States and recently in the United Kingdom where an experimental GMO wheat trail has been described as a…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); For countless decades the powers of the world have looked at Africa with hungry eyes, seeking to tap into and exploit the continent’s vast resources. In years past it was the conversion of staple food craps to cash crops (such as cocoa) but in the 21st century things have become a bit more coded. The Monsanto Company and its GM seeds with…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); As evidenced by May’s March Against Monsanto and the protest movement against GMOs at the grocery store and farmer’s markets, demand for non-GMO and organic food is skyrocketing. But as more and more companies and products go non-GMO, will the American farming system be able to handle all of these requests? Or will companies resort to…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Whether it’s been the rise of corporate influence in music and entertainment or racism and everything in between, rock legend Neil Young has always been on the cutting edge of musical protest. Young has a long history of music with a purpose, and his latest album with the band Promise of the Real titled ‘The Monsanto Years’ continues that…

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); For years many people have wondered about the stances of religious organizations on genetically modified organisms, which are lab-created foods by Monsanto and other companies that would not occur in nature. Recently, Pope Francis of the Catholic Church let the world know where he stands in an Italian interview. “It is difficult to give an…