WASHINGTON -- The United States Senate decided again Thursday that it simply does not want to let states tell people whether or not they are eating genetically modified food. The Senate voted overwhelmingly -- 71 to 27 -- against an amendment to the sweeping farm bill, squashing a measure that would not have required labeling of genetically modified organisms, but merely would have let states decide if they ...

Smart phones are a powerful tool that can be used to promote activism in several ways. While some point to legitimate issues regarding phones such as surveillance and health in regards to activism, others still use them and take advantage of their benefits seen with the growing number of useful cell phone apps. Here are 3 free cell phone apps every activist should have. 1. SPY CAMERA NINJA - HIDDEN VIDEO Th ...

With opposition to biotech giant Monsanto growing daily all across the world, the corporation, in what appears to be a response to the upcoming worldwide "March Against Monsanto" event, has publicly stated that those against genetically-modified foods are guilty of "reverse elitism." "There is this strange kind of reverse elitism: If I’m going to do this, then everything else shouldn't exist. There is space ...

Debunking the GMO Talking Points with Ease #1 GMOs are needed to feed the world. This is always a future based “goal” never to be obtained any time soon. GMOs have been on the market since 1996. When are they going to feed the world? The answer is never because that’s not what they are intended to do. I’ve heard an estimate of 80% of the GMOs grown in the US is used for force feeding factory farmed animals. ...

A lot of events are converging to create a tipping point to finally allow the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. The FDA is likely to approve GM salmon and apples against the people's will. Many big food companies have received massive social media backlash from consumers, particularly parent companies to organic ones that heavily funded campaigns against GMO labeling. For instance, Ben & Jerr ...

How to bury a bombshell A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) scientist has just discovered that major GM crops and products the regulatory agency has been approving for commercial release over the past 20 years contain a potentially dangerous virus gene. The gene – Gene VI – overlaps with the cauliflower mosaic virus (CaMV) 35S promoter. The CaMV 35S promoter is the commonest, most widely used regulatory ...

Since food companies collectively spent over $45 million to stop Prop 37, California’s GMO labeling law, it’s hard to believe that they — and Walmart in particular — would turn around and push for a federal GMO labeling standard. But a trickle of reports, aspects of which we’ve now confirmed, suggests just such a turnabout. Playing a state-by-state game of whack-a-mole with grassroots groups trying to pass ...

Sir Julian Rose ICPPC Greetings demonstrating farmers! I am an English farmer and Polish patriot. I want you to know: your actions are being supported by a growing number of farmers in other Countries as the news of this Polish Resistance spreads around the World. 
 I am proud to be able to support your efforts to secure your land and prevent multinational corporations and government stealing it away from y ...

The monarch butterfly is yet another animal species that appears to be in rapid decline due to the rise in herbicide-resistant genetically modified (GM) crops. These butterflies lay eggs on milkweed plants, and once the eggs hatch, monarch caterpillars feed exclusively on the weed. Yet, the overuse of Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide across millions of acres of Roundup Ready crops is believed to be destroying t ...

On January 2, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game released its annual fisheries forecast for the Copper River region, famous for its prolific runs of succulent salmon. The forecast, awaited each year by fisherman living in the region’s port towns, makes predictions based on the previous years’ harvest, weather patterns, and a variety of other data. This year, there’s good news mixed with the bad: 2013 is ...