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India Takes Steps to Reduce Glyphosate Use in Agriculture
I was thrilled when I first heard that the president of Mexico had decreed a ban on glyphosate use in agriculture beginning in January 2024. However, the industry fought back hard, and while it looked for a while as if they weren’t going to be able to stop the ban, the latest news I have is that the Sixth District Judge in Administrative Matters granted an injunction against the decree that was instigated by Bayer, the producer of glyphosate.
New Study Reveals: What’s in Our Kids’ School Lunches?
GMOScience Team Oct. 2022 At-A-Glance Moms Across America (MAA) tested American school lunch samples to determine their levels of toxicity and nutrition MAA tested school lunches for glyphosate, pesticides, heavy metals, veterinary hormones, and nutrients and minerals High levels of glyphosate, pesticides, and heavy metals were found in a significant percentage of samples, while veterinary hormones were found in several samples The school lunches were shown to be broadly deficient of nutrients...
GM Foods: A Moment of Honesty
So many have claimed that GE foods are perfectly safe, that the science is settled and only fools would deny this. However, professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies Glenn Davis Stone explains that precisely identical claims have been made before for...
How the Great Food War Will Be Won
Do we need GE crops to "feed the world"? Scientist Jonathan Latham explains why it is important to understand that this is a fallacy. In his words, "there is no global or regional shortage of food. There never has been and nor is there ever likely to be. India has a...
GMO Questions and Answers
How are genetically engineered (GE) crops different from those that are not genetically engineered? The short answer is that the genes used in genetically engineered crops are often not from an organism that is similar to the crop. The GE genes may introduce...