Food Transparency, Food Justice
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By Caroline O’Sullivan, DVM In an ongoing effort to take better care of our four legged friends, deciding what is best to feed them is sometimes a challenge. There are standard dry and canned foods, then the specific diets for age, medical conditions, and weight loss. Next come RAW diets and home cooked diets. All …
GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs) In Pet foodContinue Reading
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The “conversion” of former anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas to GMO promoter has garnered huge media attention, but Thierry Vrain, Ph.D., a former genetic engineer who speaks out against the risks of genetically engineered foods, has far more credibility—and a far more important story to tell the public. Thierry Vrain’s career has spanned the full range of agriculture—from …
Former GMO Engineer Drops Biotech and Goes OrganicContinue Reading
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The US sugar beet industry coordinated an industry-wide conversion to genetically modified sugar beets, thus eliminating a non-GMO alternative for food manufacturers and consumers. Meanwhile, production of GM sugar beet seed is likely to contaminate organic and conventional vegetable seed production in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Frank Morton faces a major threat to his livelihood. Morton’s …
Sugar beet industry converts to 100% GMO, disallows non-GMO optionContinue Reading
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Evidence of the harm caused by GMOs (+ Roundup) has until now been hidden deep in thousands of pages of information and the new GMO Evidence site has ploughed through them to create an easy-to-use database that was set up by the owners of Sustainable Pulse. View the New GMO Evidence Site Here GMO Evidence has …
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Mamavation is petitioning the makers of Similac to remove genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) from their infant formula.And we’ve been quite successful online garnering support. Last week I got in touch with Fleishman Hillard, the public relations firm that handles Similac.They know me already. But what has happened is odd. After reaching out and getting an initial …
Mom Asks the Makers of Similac for a MeetingContinue Reading
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New “Greenwashed” App to Track Environmentally Harmful Products Posing as “Green” This Earth Day, a new website and app launches to expose “greenwashed” products, or products that are falsely marketed as natural or environmentally friendly. “’Greenwashed’ is a pejorative term meant to describe products containing known carcinogens or otherwise environmentally harmful which use misleading terms …