A group of consumers is pledging never to buy Lilydale free-range chickens again after finding out the chickens are fed genetically modified (GM) feed. The issue arose by complaints on social media followed by a response by Lilydale on ...
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Global seed technology major Monsanto’s Indian subsidiary said it would submit final trial results for its genetically modified (GM) corn to lawmakers within a year. As cited in Reuters, Monsanto India CEO Shilpa Divekar Nirula said ...
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Chinese lawmakers are in the process of considering a proposed revision to the country’s Food Safety Law which would include the mandatory labelling of all goods containing Genetically Modified (GM) organisms. The central ...
Tags: GM crops, labelling procedure, Agriculture
One mainstream farmer is returning to conventional seed-and he's not alone As an invulnerable tween, Chris Huegerich, the child of a prosperous farming family, wiped out on his motorcycle in tiny Breda, Iowa. Forty years on, folks ...
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A ban on State purchases of vegetable oil processed from imported rapeseeds is to protect domestic farmers' economic interests and does not mean the government is concerned about the safety of genetically modified food, an industry insider ...
Tags: Oil, Agriculture, Food, vegetable oil
United States agrochemicals firm Monsanto has terminated its plans to grow new types of genetically modified (GM) crops in the European Union over lack of prospects for cultivation in the region. The company said that it will drop all the ...
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Tesco is “misleading” consumers over its scrapping of a pledge to only rear poultry on soya feed that’s free of genetic modification (GM), say campaigners. Tesco’s Tim Smith said it was important to be upfront ...
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“The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food,” an article by Michael Moss in the New York Times, lights up a lot of dark corners of the junk food industry and offers some genuinely fascinating angles on how Dr. Pepper, ...
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A majority of consumers interviewed by the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) confess to having little knowledge of genetically modified foods, but would still support labelling on products. Almost nine in every ten of the consumers ...
Tags: GM food, Food Standards, genetically modified foods, foods
In a shot heard round the GM world,Mark Lynas,a pioneer in the anti-GM movement,came out as a full-fledged advocate of genetic crop modification. Speaking at a farming conference Jan.3,in Oxford,England,Lynas'blunt words served as both ...
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The Indian Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has issued a Gazette Notification that mandates producers of packaged food to reveal the genetically-modified (GM) ingredients, in their product if used any. The new ...
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India is set to introduce mandatory labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods on 1 January 2013, a move which is expected to help consumers make informed choices while buying packaged foods. According to a notification published by the ...
Tags: mandatory labeling, genetically modified foods, packaged foods