CUpS: Food News
Throughout much of agriculture, a remarkable span of 10,000 years, farmers were largely the stewards of the land and the crops that they grew. Seeds collected from one year’s harvest were selected, stored, and used again for successive growing seasons. As Frank Morton, an organic seed breeder explains in this segment of the Seeds [...]
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Seeds Of Life: Hybrids and the Emergence of Seed Monopolies
Posted in Food News Also tagged adm, bayer, cargill, commercial seed companies, dow, farmers, food system, frank morton, hybrids, monsanto, plant breeders, plant selection, seeds of life, sygenta, transgenic crops 1 Comment
A Important Case of Preserving Food Sovereignty and Avoiding Green Revolution Calamity
March 109, 2010; Don’t overlook Malawi! In Seedling Magazine, a recent article about this tiny east African country that faces big battles ahead with how it feeds its people, and whether it can forestall the pressures of “Green Revolution” style assistance from the international community. At stake a nation, how it can reliably feed itself, [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Also tagged africa, flax, food security, food sovereignty, green revolution, malawi, via campesina 1 Comment
Temporary Stay Against GM Introduction Granted to India’s “king of Vegetables”-the Aubergine
February 10, 2010 Jairam Ramesh, India’s minister for environment and forests, announced yesterday that India would impose a temporary moratorium on the introduction of a genetically modified Aubergine (eggplant). Bt Brinjal, would have been the first genetically modified food allowed for commercial cultivation in India. The Aubergine had been modified with a gene [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Also tagged aubergine, bt, eggplant, india, trangenic crops Post a comment
South Australia alone on GM canola ban
January 28, 2010 Western Australia recently decided to allow genetically modified (GM) canola to be planted in their fields. A statewide ban on GM food and crops was adopted in 2003. This from GeneEthics.org:
“State governments agreed with widespread warnings that GM canola would adversely impact markets and trade in Australian food products. They used [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Also tagged agriculture, ban, canola, Environment, GE, genetically modified food, GM, GMOs, growing gmos, impact, transgenic Post a comment
Monsanto’s Adventures in Court
January 18, 2010 Battle ahead: the two largest seed companies, Monsanto and DuPont, have gone to court over their seeds. Apparently DuPont created a new line of genetically modified seed by adding one of their genes to an existing genetically engineered Roundup Ready seed, which was created by Monsanto. DuPont “is challenging Monsanto’s licensing agreement [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Also tagged antitrust, dupont, GE, genetically engineered, genetically modified seeds, lawsuit, license, monsanto, seed, transgenic 1 Comment
Monsanto’s GMO Corn Linked To Organ Failure, Study Reveals
January 13, 2010 In a report (A Comparison of the Effects of Three GM Corn Varieties on Mammalian Health) published in the International Journal of Biological Sciences,
“researchers found that agricultural giant Monsanto’s GM corn is linked to organ damage in rats.”
Monsanto refuted the study, in Monsanto Response: de Vendomois et al. 2009, and [...]
Posted in CUpS Food News Wire Also tagged corn, GE, genetiacally modified foods, GMOs, health, International Journal of Biological Sciences, labeling, labels, monsanto Post a comment
