Wednesday, December 31, 2014

END OF 2014 ROUNDUP ON GMO NEWS 'ROUND THE WORLD

Iowa lawsuits accuse Syngenta over GMO seeds

DesMoinesRegister.com - ‎Dec 30, 2014‎
Iowa farmers and companies are suing Syngenta AG, claiming they suffered financial losses when China rejected corn shipments containing a genetically modified seed developed by the agribusiness giant but not approved for use by China. Sixteen growers ...

3 surprises from Oregon voting data on marijuana, governor and GMO labeling ...

OregonLive.com - ‎Dec 29, 2014‎
The Oregonian's data team mapped precinct data for Oregon's 11 most populous counties for the Nov. 4 vote in three races: governor, marijuana legalization and GMO labeling. Here are three surprises revealed in detail by the data. You can find more by ...

USDA clears GMO tall fescue

Capital press - ‎Dec 30, 2014‎
The USDA has cleared the way for cultivation of genetically modified tall fescue without conducting an environmental review of the new crop.
 

Bill Maher slams 'evil, ruthless' Monsanto: 'The Scientologists of the ...

Raw Story - ‎Dec 30, 2014‎
“Well, of course, a company like Monsanto,” he said, “which owns all the great lobbyists in the world, went to work and they convinced people that it would cost them more money at the grocery store.
 

In-depth look at GMOS with podcast and FREE book

The Ozarks Sentinel - ‎Dec 29, 2014‎
Since then thousands of applications for experimental genetically-modified (GM) organisms, including quite bizarre GMOs, have been filed with the US Patent Office alone, and many more abroad. Furthermore ... You may have, at the time, known exactly how ...

Global Food Safety Testing Market

MarketWatch - ‎21 hours ago‎
NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Food Safety Testing in US$ Million by the following Testing Types: Pathogens Testing, Pesticide Testing, GMO Testing, and Other Testing. The End-Use markets also ...
 

LETTER: Americans should take interest in genetically modified food ingredients

lehighvalleylive.com - ‎Dec 30, 2014‎
One of the biggest threats to our health is the food we eat daily. Seldom do we ask where it comes from or whether it was genetically modified to withstand toxic weedkillers such as Roundup, atrazine and now 2,4-D ( a form of Agent Orange). We seem to ...

GMO food for Christmas – what has Nigeria learnt from the West?

Risk Science Center - ‎Dec 22, 2014‎
The E.U has established a legal framework regulating GM food and feed derived products as well as the release of living genetically modified organisms (GMOs) into the environment in order to ensure a high level of protection of human and animal health, ...
 

EU Nations Set to Ban GMOs as They Please

Nature World News - ‎19 hours ago‎
If you're a consumer who takes a strong stance against genetically modified (GM) crops, or GMOs, you may want to catch the next plane to Europe.

Farm bill, GMOs, RFS, among top issues for agriculture in 2014

Agri-Pulse - ‎18 hours ago‎
The war over bioengineered products in food erupted in several battles in 2014, most noticeably in Vermont, which in the spring enacted the nation's first law requiring mandatory labeling of foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If it ...
 

Stifel: Higher Corn Prices Dominate Monsanto's Q1 Print

Benzinga - ‎1 hour ago‎
“We believe Monsanto will continue to drive higher seed pricing in 2015 through mix-lift upgrades,” Massoud wrote. “In our view, investor concern over a year over year decline in U.S.

Maui is winning the war against Monsanto

Inhabitat (blog) - ‎Dec 29, 2014‎
Maui is winning the war against Monsanto, according to an attorney for the Sustainable Hawaiian Agriculture for the Keiki and the Aina (SHAKA) Movement.

Interesting Monsanto Put And Call Options For February 2015

Nasdaq - ‎8 minutes ago‎
Investors in Monsanto Co. (Symbol: MON) saw new options become available today, for the February 2015 expiration. At Stock Options Channel , our YieldBoost formula has looked up and down the MON options chain for the new February 2015 contracts ...

Biopiracy: Monsanto Tries Patenting Natural Tomatoes

Center for Research on Globalization - ‎Dec 30, 2014‎
Many individuals are aware that biotech has developed a seed monopoly largely by patenting genetically modified organisms, but not everyone realizes that Monsanto tried to patent a tomato that had no biotech traits. Now, the European Patent Office (EPO ...
 
 
 
 

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