Genetic Engineering Blog

EcoFarm is deeply concerned that the development and release of genetically engineered crops worldwide has progressed rapidly with inadequate oversight, scant safety testing, and minimal public debate. The Genetic Engineering Blog is produced by Thomas Wittman and EcoFarm, and supported by a generous donation from the Newman’s Own Foundation.

HAITIAN FARMERS COMMIT TO BURNING MONSANTO HYBRID SEEDS

Posted on May 25, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

“A new earthquake” is what peasant farmer leader Chavannes Jean-Baptiste of the Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) called the news that Monsanto will be donating 60,000 seed sacks (475 tons) of hybrid corn seeds and vegetable seeds, some of them treated with highly toxic pesticides. The MPP has committed to burning Monsanto’s seeds, and has called for a march to protest the corporation’s presence in Haiti on June 4, for World Environment Day.

Marketing Biotech A World of Benefits? For Whom?

Posted on May 25, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

When the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) met in Chicago last week they were, no doubt, elated to hear that the U.S. State Department would be aggressively confronting critics of agricultural biotechnology.

Monsanto plant shut down by activists Rotterdam

Posted on May 17, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

The action group ‘Round Up Monsanto’ successfully shut down the main Monsanto plant in the Netherlands, formerly De Ruiter Seeds.

U.S. Urged to Back GM Labeling Agreement

Posted on May 17, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

Consumers Union is asking the Obama Administration to get behind a compromise on genetically modified (GM)/genetically engineered (GE) food labeling that is widely supported in the international community.

New Studies Expose Potential Risks of GMO Trees

Posted on May 7, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

Red Flags Raised About Potential Negative Impacts of Proposed Large-Scale Release of Genetically Engineered Trees in the U.S.

California Creamery Earns First Non-GMO Verification

Posted on May 7, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

Straus Family Creamery is the nation’s first creamery to achieve Non-GMO Verification for all its products and will carry the “Non-GMO Project Verified” Seal on all of its packaging.

15,000 people demonstrate in Madrid “for a GMO-Free Food and Agriculture”

Posted on April 20, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

15,000 people have gathered this morning in Madrid under the slogan “For a Food and GE Free Agriculture.” Farmers, environmentalists and consumers around the country have toured the city demanding the Government to follow the same path followed by countries like France, Germany or Austria, and ban the cultivation of GM maize in Spain.

Genetically Modified Soy Linked to Sterility, Infant Mortality

Posted on April 20, 2010 in the Genetic Engineering Blog

Russian biologist Alexey V. 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 industry.