Plants Are Being Engineered to Earn Their Keep
Reading Time: 2 minutes Researchers are working on transferring bioluminescence to trees and giving houseplants traits to warn owners of harm. What could possibly go wrong?
Big Ag’s Wild Game of Monopoly Endangers Food Diversity
Reading Time: 6 minutes Agriculture’s biggest deal ever — the Bayer-Monsanto merger — would leave farmers and consumers paying more for less, and could accelerate a catastrophic decline in the diversity of what we plant and eat.
Congress Kneecaps Vermont GMO Labeling Law
Reading Time: 4 minutes Congress again does the bidding of the GMO industry as it tries to nix a Vermont food labeling law.
GMO Makers, Their Puppets in Academia, and The New York Times
Reading Time: 7 minutes Are GMO (genetically modified organisms) foods good for you and the environment? Whom should you go to for answers? Scientists necessarily know more about such stuff than the rest of us — but be careful. The ones you are most likely to hear from are actually propagandists paid for by the biotech industry. And from what you can read about it in the mainstream media — especially The New York Times — the industry’s grip on academia and the media is much tighter, wider, and deeper than you would ever guess.
One Farmer’s Powerful Plea: Stop Monsanto
Reading Time: < 1 minute How evil is Monsanto? Let this farmer tell his stunning story….
Worth Reading: ShoeThrower Index, KochesLoveACLU, OrganicFoodFight
Reading Time: < 1 minute Next Mideast revolts predicted. The Koch Brothers Love…the ACLU(?) And FYI on GMOS.