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Genetically Engineered Burrito? Chipotle Labels GMO

by Rebekah Wilce — July 17, 2013 - 6:57am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food, Food Rights Network

    • The fast food burrito chain Chipotle, which advertises "food with integrity," became the first restaurant chain in the United States to label genetically modified ingredients in its food in March 2013.

    Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have sparked concerns about potential human health effects and confirmed environmental effects. Chipotle has 1,450 restaurants as of June 2013 and $2.7 billion in annual revenue, so the labeling is no small potatoes.

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    U.S. Senate Votes Down State GMO Labeling

    by Rebekah Wilce — May 29, 2013 - 7:43am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Food, Food Rights Network, Politics

    • In the midst of a week of debates and speeches about the federal farm bill (S. 954), supporters of the right to know whether or not food products contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs) suffered a setback on May 23. An amendment (S. Amdt.

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    GMO Labeling Passes Vermont House as Activists Prepare to March Against Monsanto

    by Rebekah Wilce — May 15, 2013 - 7:58am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Food, Food Rights Network, Politics

    • In an advance that makes history, Vermont's House of Representatives passed a bill on May 10 requiring foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) to be labeled. This is the furthest any such legislation has made it through the legislative process in the United States.

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    Over a Million Comments Filed on GE Salmon as New Evidence Emerges of Deeply Flawed Review

    by Rebekah Wilce — April 26, 2013 - 9:15am
  • Topics: Food Safety, Genetic Engineering, Environment, Food Rights Network

    • The extended comment period on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review and approval of AquAdvantage genetically engineered (GE) salmon ends April 26. As more comments flood in, the Center for Food Safety (CFS) reports that documents disclosed through a Freedom of Information Request (FOIA) "raise serious questions about the adequacy of the FDA's review of the AquAdvantage Salmon application."

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    Bills to Label Genetically Engineered Foods Introduced in Illinois and Iowa

    by Rebekah Wilce — February 19, 2013 - 9:25am
  • Topics: Food Safety, Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Food Rights Network

    • Bills were introduced in the Iowa and Illinois state senates last week that would require genetically engineered (GE) foods to be labeled. Iowa's bill would require labeling if a food contains more than nine-tenths of a percent GE ingredients, whereas Illinois' bill has a one percent threshold.

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    Don’t Put a Fork in It: On the Perils of Genetically Engineered Salmon

    by PRW Staff — February 1, 2013 - 8:58am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering

    • -- by Wenonah Hauter, Food and Water Watch

    While most Americans were enjoying the holiday season or stressing out over the nation's imminent leap off the so-called fiscal cliff, the Food and Drug Administration delivered some big news as quietly as possible. Fishy Genes.

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    California GMO Labeling Supporters Confront $41 Million Opposition and 13-Point Poll Slide

    by Rebekah Wilce — October 25, 2012 - 12:34pm
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Campaign Finance, Food Rights Network, Public Relations

    • California Proposition 37 to label foods containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) is up for a vote on Tuesday, November 6. It enjoyed broad popular support as of September, with a USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll showing support by 61 percent of registered voters.

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    Approval of New Chemical-Resistant GMOs Likely to Prompt Pesticide Escalation

    by Jill Richardson — August 28, 2012 - 7:45am
  • Topics: Agriculture, Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food Rights Network

    • A decade and a half after farmers began planting the first genetically engineered (GE) crops, the future is clear. The scientists who pioneered genetic engineering thought of themselves as environmentalists, creating products that could reduce pesticide use. Instead, they have simply perpetuated the same "pesticide treadmill" as their pesticide-peddling counterparts resulting in the application of a greater volume of ever more toxic pesticides.

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    Looking for Kids' Books? Avoid This Propaganda

    by Rebekah Wilce — August 22, 2012 - 10:58am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Children, Education, Food Rights Network

    • Did you know that genetic engineering (GE) "is helping to improve the health of the Earth and the people who call it home"? A trade group funded by Monsanto wants your kids to believe it.

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    Fighting GMO Labeling in California is Food Lobby’s “Highest Priority”

    by PRW Staff — August 1, 2012 - 11:06am
  • Topics: Genetic Engineering, Corporations, Food Rights Network, Lobbying

    • - by PRWatch guest contributor Michele Simon

    In case you had any doubt that California's Prop 37 -- which would require labeling of food containing genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) -- is a significant threat to industry, a top food lobby has now made it perfectly clear.

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