A coalition of activist organizations demonstrating at the Monsanto office in Davis CA. successfully caused a shutdown of the multinational chemical and biotech company offices there on on Saturday, March 16. The shutdown took place on the first day of a planned weekend of activities in Davis, intended to spotlight and oppose the activities...
Monsanto Company is the dominant player in commercial genetically engineered (GE) crops, the biggest seed company in the world, and—to hear them tell it—a leader and innovator in sustainable agriculture. Monsanto aggressively touts its technology as vital to achieving laudable goals such as ensuring adequate food production, responding to the challenge of global warming,...
It is increasingly understood that poverty, inadequate access to land and food, and unfair trade policies are the major causes of hunger in the world, rather than absolute shortage of food. Additional factors contributing to food insecurity include declining investments in infrastructure (storage facilities, roads to markets) and increased diversion of food crops for...
A study at Nanjing University in China found that ingested “microRNA” (very small pieces of ribonucleic acid, or RNA) from plants were able to survive digestion and influence the function of human cells. Food columnist Ari Levaux has a piece digging into the implications, in The Atlantic. The basic idea: if this research stands...
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