By Andrew Kimbrell of the Huffington Post
Posted December 23, 2008
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kimbrell/obamas-choice-of-vilsack_b_153213.html
Subdued approval greeted President-elect Obama’s choice of Tom Vilsack for Secretary of Agriculture last week. This came from mainstream environmental groups, such as Sierra Club, and even organizations that have been critical in the past of the Iowa governor’s policies. Vilsack comes across in nearly all [...]
New Studies on GE Corn
Current threads on GE Corn
1. A study sponsored by the Austrian Ministries for Agriculture and Health found that mice fed a genetically engineered corn developed by Monsanto Company produced fewer offspring than those fed conventional corn.
Read the full story by Ken Roseboro, ed., the Organic and Non-GMO Report, December 2008 via the Organic [...]
Organic Consumers Unite: Stand Up Against Vilsack for USDA
Despite a massive public outcry, including over 20,000 emails from the Organic Consumers Association, President-Elect Obama has chosen former Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack to be the next Secretary of Agriculture.
Sign OCA’s Petition to the US Senate Now!
While Vilsack has promoted respectable policies with respect to restraining livestock monopolies, his overall record is one of aiding [...]
The Government of India Challenges Monsanto
By Lison Joseph and C.R. Sukumar of Live Mint/The Wall Street Journal
http://www.livemint.com/2008/10/30000949/Monsanto-battles-biopiracy-cla.html
Hyderabad: India is asking the local arm of multinational Monsanto Co. to pay a royalty for genetic information that forms the basis of a genetically modified seed sold by the firm here because it believes this information is that of a bacteria found in [...]
Vilsack to be named Secretary of Agriculture
It looks as if the original rumors were true. Former Iowa governor and one time presidential hopeful Tom Vilsack was reported to be named Obama’s Secretary of the USDA. It was reported earlier that Vilsack was eliminated from the short list; apparently he survived.
This, much like the newly designated Secretary of Education, may not rest [...]
GMO Corn in Mexico: Another Confirmation
by: Joëlle Stolz, Le Monde
via:http://www.truthout.org/121208D
Raise the alarm for Mexican corn’s biosecurity: a molecular study conducted by Mexican, American and Dutch researchers demonstrates the presence of genes from genetically modified organisms (GMO) among the varieties of traditional corn cultivated in the remote regions of Oaxaca State in the southern part of the country, even though the [...]
Who Owns Nature?: the ETC Group’s Latest Report on the Corporate Race to Control Food
Download the latest report [published November 13] at
http://www.etcgroup.org/en/materials/publications.html?pub_id=707
All of the players are named:
Monsanto, Dow, DuPont, Syngenta, Bayer, BASF, etc.
Monsanto “Loses” 500 Pounds of GM Cotton Seed
By SAM HANANEL
Associated Press Writer
http://license.icopyright.net/user/viewFreeUse.act?fuid=MjEyNzAyNQ==
An unauthorized strain of genetically modified cotton was accidentally mixed in with other harvested cotton in Texas last month, but government officials on Wednesday played down any safety concerns.
About a quarter ton of the experimental cotton seed engineered to contain a protein that produces a pesticide was combined with about 60 [...]
Monsanto Buys Ethanol Plant in Brazil
Posted by Meredith Niles
Posted at Grist, http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2008/11/10/102649/05?source=food
At a time when many people were questioning causes of the recent food crisis, many more were investigating how our food systems can move forward to sustainably feed the increasing world population. Recently, the U.N. Task Force on Trade, Environment and Development released a report touting the noteworthy yields [...]
