While it is becoming easier to find organic and non-GMO food options, it’s also getting harder and harder to find them from companies that don’t have ties to Big Food, and pro-GMO CEOs for that matter. Popular brands such as Silk and most recently Annie’s Homegrown have been bought up [...]
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She’s Spent Her Days Farming (and Fighting Monsanto): Say Hello to America’s “Organic” Congresswoman
Monsanto is one of the most notoriously aggressive corporations in the United States when it comes to lobbying, enjoying strong support from certain Congresspeople despite widespread public opposition to the genetically modified seed giant. Many people in the ongoing GMO Free and organic food movements have lost confidence in their [...]
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A Pro-GMO Commenter Asked Bill Nye to Change his Stance on GMOs; What the “Science Guy” Said Was Exactly the Opposite
Bill Nye the Science Guy has long been an ambassador for science to the television-watching masses both young and old, but most of the time it’s him doing the talking and the audience at home the listening. On Nov. 5, a vast audience of Reddit users had the opportunity to [...]
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Engineer Turned Farmer Tells Audience “Why Organic Food is the Future” in Eye-Opening New TEDx Talk
The unfortunate reality of the world we live in today is that organic farming is still seen as anything but conventional (and organic food is also still seen as a specialty item, for that matter). But if Ashmeet Kapoor gets his way, the term “organic” will be actually be abolished [...]
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Minnesota School Districts Working to Remove GMO Ingredients in Effort to “Support Kids’ Long-Term Health”
While the vast majority of food on supermarket shelves in the United States, and in school lunches for that matter, contains ingredients from crops that have been genetically modified, five school districts in the ‘Land of 1,000 Lakes’ are taking the initiative to give parents and students more choice in [...]
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Nine-Year-Old Activist of ‘March Against Monsanto’ Fame: “Don’t Eat Another Halloween Candy Before You Watch This!”
Nine-year-old Daniel Bissonnette gained widespread attention for an epic speech at the March Against Monsanto event in Vancouver, and now he’s taking on the Halloween candy industry. As Bissonnette, a leader among young food activists and health conscious kids, points out in the video below, Americans consume about $2 billion [...]
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“Father of GMOs” Downplays Opponents and Calls Them “Extreme Voices;” Here’s Why He’s Dead Wrong
Genetically modified foods are banned or at least labeled throughout most of the world, with the vast majority of GMOs currently being grown in just six countries according to a recent report from Friends of the Earth. But in America, they are commonplace, with almost 90 percent of corn, 94 [...]
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Five Foods You Might Not Know are (Mostly) Non-GMO (For Now, Anyway)
The grassroots movement for food integrity has done a lot of good in the world, especially thanks to the powerful reach of social media. Graphics, articles, and other content has reached countless millions of people and has helped light the way to a brighter food future at a time when [...]
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