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Advocating for Clean Food and Environment
With the usual fanfare, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) released its most recent annual Pesticide Data Program (PDP) report with data gathered from the agency’s annual testing program during 2021. The test selections are limited and the foods and commodities tested are rotated each year. The program includes tests for an extensive but incomplete …
Getty Images Tessa Hiscox, University of Canterbury and Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury The world is under growing pressure to find sustainable options to cut emissions or lessen the impacts of climate change. Technology entrepreneurs from around the globe claim to have the solutions – not just yet, but soon. The biotech sector in particular …
Stop forcing GMO corn on Mexico
In late 2020, Mexico announced that the country would be phasing out the use of glyphosate herbicides, the cultivation of GMO corn, and the import of GMO corn for human consumption and livestock feed by the end of 2024. The reasons for the decree given by Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador are to protect …
October 13, 2022 by Johnathan Hettinger, Investigate Midwest The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will ban the sale of flea and tick collars containing a chemical linked to neurological damage in children, the agency announced this week. The collars, which contain the chemical tetrachlorvinphos, make up more than half of flea and tick collars sold in the U.S., …
The company’s profits will sustain these efforts in perpetuity. Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images Ash Enrici, Indiana University Patagonia founder Yvon Chouinard, his wife and their two adult children have irrevocably transferred their ownership of the outdoor apparel company to a set of trusts and nonprofit organizations. From now on, the corporation’s profits will fund …
National Public Radio defies mission statement, uses supporters’ donations to air unscientific, one-sided GMO mosquito misinformation. Call on NPR to produce a show that is truly informative. National Public Radio’s WAMU 1A show, produced by Amanda Williams, aired “Pest Control: Mutant Mosquitoes Come To Florida” to cover the highly controversial issue of the experimental release …
How long do we really need chemicals to last? Sura Nualpradid/EyeEm via Getty Images A. Daniel Jones, Michigan State University and Hui Li, Michigan State University PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea at first. As Teflon, they made pots easier to clean starting in the 1940s. They made jackets waterproof and carpets stain-resistant. Food …
And what you can do to help
On July 22, 2022, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added the migratory monarch butterfly to its “red list” of threatened species and categorized it as “endangered” — two steps from extinction. Known for its spectacular annual journey of up to 3,000 miles across the Americas, the monarchs are threatened by habitat …
August 10, 2022 by Nick Meyer and GMO/Toxin Free USA Staff The health effects of glyphosate, the infamous and ubiquitous chemical in Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, are still being brought to light, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the damage Monsanto and Bayer’s creations have caused. Over 50 years later …
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