THE MEDIA CONSORTIUM– It won’t be long before the world has to confront its diminishing supply of clean water. “We’ve had the same amount of water on our planet since the beginning of time, ” Susan Leal, co-author of Running Out of Water, told GritTV’s Laura Flanders. “We are on a collision course of a very finite supply and 7.6 … Read More
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GE Salmon? Are You Out of Your Mind?!
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HUFFINGTON POST– Has the FDA gone completely mad? Why are they trying to open the flood gates to genetically engineered (GE) salmon- a move that will go down in history as one of the most asinine and dangerous ever made by our government? What’s it going to take for them to actually start protecting public health? Frankenfish can promote disease … Read More
Judge Revokes Approval of Modified Sugar Beets
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NEW YORK TIMES– A federal district court judge revoked the government’s approval of genetically engineered sugar beets Friday, saying that the Agriculture Department had not adequately assessed the environmental consequences before approving them for commercial cultivation. The decision, by Judge Jeffrey S. White of Federal District Court in San Francisco, appears to effectively ban the planting of the genetically modified … Read More
Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility and Infant Mortality
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HUFFINGTON POST– This study was just routine,” said Russian biologist Alexey V. Surov, in what could end up as the understatement of this century. Surov and his colleagues set out to discover if Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) soy, grown on 91% of US soybean fields, leads to problems in growth or reproduction. What he discovered may uproot a multi-billion dollar … Read More