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08/02/2017 / By Tracey Watson

The biotech industry has infiltrated and now controls nearly all GMO regulators

The debate surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs) has been raging for years now, with strongly held viewpoints expressed on both sides. Nonetheless, slowly but surely, the tide seems to be turning in favor of those who are against the use of technology to biologically alter their foods. Of course, this swing in public opinion poses […]

04/25/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

PETITION: Help pressure the USDA to test food for deadly glyphosate herbicide

Last year, the USDA was working with the EPA and FDA on plans to start testing samples of corn syrup for glyphosate residue this April, but now it appears that they have had a change of heart. Under the plan, the USDA would have looked at more than 300 samples of corn syrup to measure […]

04/06/2017 / By Tracey Watson

USDA scrubs plan to test foods for dangerous levels of Monsanto’s glyphosate

The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) announced in March 2015 that glyphosate, the primary ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, is a probable human carcinogen (i.e. it is likely to cause cancer in humans). Agencies around the world, including in Canada and Europe, took the warning seriously and started taking steps […]

01/08/2017 / By JD Heyes

The feds get something right: Heavy metal mining operation denied renewal permit over contamination concerns

There isn’t much that federal regulatory agencies and the bureaucrats who run them get right, but when they finally do make the correct decision on behalf of the people and the environment, they deserve the credit. The Associated Press reports that a pair of longstanding mineral rights leases that are crucial to a proposed large […]

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