An industry advocate/lobbying group “AHPA” (American Herbal Products Association) to which Seagate is a long-time member, just reported “The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) issued a final rule on December 20 that establishes the new national mandatory bioengineered (BE) food disclosure standard. The final rule does not incorporate significant revisions recommended…
Tag: GMOs
GMO corn in Mexico … is it really banned? — Negativo
One week ago, a Mexican judge officially banned all GMO corn in Mexico. This was the direct result of their scientists finding that up to 95% of the wild “maize” (corn) fields in the Mexican States of Oaxaca and Pueblo contain GMO contamination. There are approx. 20,000 varieties of corn grown in Mexico, the raw…
Glyphosate levels found in U.S. foods – A Monsanto Thanksgiving
Glyphosate is the active ingredient herbicide (weed-killer) found in Monsanto’s Roundup. It is the world’s top-selling weed-killer. Monsanto has been modifying the genetics of various crops (soy, wheat, corn, cotton, etc) in order that they can withstand higher and higher doses of Roundup without themselves being killed off by this herbicide. However, there are consequences…
Reasons the Modern Farmer Sprays Herbicides
On August 24, Seagate posted a blog article regarding the new Monsanto herbicide-resistent genetically modified (GMO) soybean seed called Xtend. It is able to make soy resist dying from being sprayed with the weed-killer Dicamba. A number of (very angry) farmers, we call the middle-America 4-H club GMO folks, took issue with the article. We…
Feeding commercial dog food vs. real food – Part I
The reason we are reviewing this topic is that it appears that dogs overall are less healthy, seem to be living fewer years, are contracting illnesses or debilitating physical conditions much earlier in life, and are behaving as if they were much older and having less energy well before entering their “senior years”. If you…
Congress last try to block Vermont labeling law for GMO’s
Sen. Pat Robert (R-KS) is back again with another GMO-promoting bill. He is making another attempt to derail the Vermont law that took effect July 1st. Senator Robert’s first attempt at interfering with Vermont’s law was detailed in our March 26th blog, Support for requiring GMO labeling in the Senate. That Senate bill by Pat…
San Diego suing Monsanto, Bayer trying to buy Monsanto
When you think of Monsanto, you might remember their wonderful accomplishments such as Agent Orange and GMO’s. Perhaps some of your family is no longer able to eat U.S. produced wheat or soybean products, like a slice of bread or pizza without breaking out in hives or having severe stomach pain. Thank Monsanto. However, you…
Feds budgeting to lobby consumers to accept GMO foods
What better way to spread propaganda than to have it paid for with your tax dollars. The Federal Government through your (or Monsanto’s) House of Representatives is currently putting together a spending bill for the new Fiscal Year (September 2016-17) that includes over $3 million for consumer education and outreach to “promote understanding and acceptance…
Support for requiring GMO Labeling in the Senate
Sometimes there is good news from our nation’s capitol. Senate Bill 2609 that would have taken away State’s Rights to force GMO food labeling has not passed. Whichever side you of this issue you are on about the continuing proliferation of GMO foods, you should support the effort to make full disclosure mandatory on a…
Who is really in charge of your FDA?
The agency that is in charge of regulating your foods and drugs, has its top positions filled by people that were employed or earned a significant portion of their income from the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. It is no secret why this agency has been biased against the natural foods industry and supportive of their…