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Tag Archives: label
Debating GM across the Pond
The biggest free trade deal in history is being negotiated now. If finalised, this will be the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and the United States of America (USA). A few hours ago I … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged America, biotechnology, Europe, feed, food, genetic modification, grocery, internet, knowledge, label, law, livestock, politics, seed, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association will sue Vermont over its GMO labeling law
Originally posted on The Secular Jurist:
Defying repeated threats of a lawsuit from Monsanto and the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), on May 8, Peter Shumlin, Governor of Vermont, signed a historic bill requiring food manufacturers to label genetically engineered (GE)…
Posted in agriculture, food, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged America, biotechnology, Europe, feed, food, genetic modification, grocery, label, law, livestock, Monsanto, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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The biggest free trade deal in history
The biggest free trade deal in history is being negotiated now. There are plenty of catchy little acronyms when you talk about the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the European Union (EU) and the United States of America … Continue reading
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Tagged America, biotechnology, clone, Europe, food safety, food sovereignty, grocery, hormone, label, livestock, meat, politics, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, welfare
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Monsanto Admits: 1. We Don’t Need Genetic Engineering, 2. We Don’t Need Monsanto
Originally posted on Volatility:
> Recently Wired magazine ran a Monsanto infomercial touting its alleged change of strategic course on vegetables. Monsanto, through its subsidiaries Seminis and others, is selling a line of high-end conventional vegetables dolled up as some kind of high-tech breakthrough. Contrary…
Posted in agriculture, horticulture, human health, knowledge transfer, money and trade
Tagged allergy, America, Asia, biofortification, biotechnology, brassica, breeding, broccoli, Bt crop, commodity crop, corn, cotton, crop, crop variety, DNA, drought, Europe, evolution, farmer, feed, fruit, fruit variety, genetic modification, germplasm, glucoraphanin, glyphosate, Golden Rice, grain, grocery, herbicide, herbicide resistance, history, human, insecticide, knowledge, label, lettuce, maize, marker assisted selection, melon, Monsanto, nitrogen, nutrition, onion, organic, pepper, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, potato, research, rice, Roundup, Roundup Ready crop, salt, seed, selective breeding, Seminis, soya, tomato, trade, transport, vegetable, vegetable variety, watermelon, weed, wild vegetable
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The TTIP, Corporatism, and GMOs
Originally posted on Volatility:
> Negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP, aka TAFTA) has been slowed over the EU’s felt need to take time for a “consultation” with the people of Europe over its “investor rights” provisions.…
Posted in agriculture, food, money and trade
Tagged biotechnology, genetic modification, label, law, politics, seed, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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Labelling GMOs: The Whole Food Debate
Originally posted on Global Food Politics:
Whole Foods last week announced it would begin phasing out top-selling Greek yoghurt Chobani products in early 2014 as part of its efforts to stop selling genetically engineered products that aren’t labelled. While Chobani…
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Tagged biotechnology, feed, food, genetic modification, grocery, label, livestock, milk, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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Trade between Europe and the United States
Do you think the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) will make the world a better place? Perhaps it will. It’s certainly going to affect us. The European Commission (EC) calls this ‘The biggest trade deal in the world’. Here’s … Continue reading
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Tagged biotechnology, bisphenol A, food, food safety, genetic modification, grocery, label, law, politics, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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Living With Neonicotinoids
Originally posted on Living With Insects Blog:
Bumblebee Pollinating a Flower It is clear that neonicotinoid insecticides kill bees. The severity of the problem and what to do about it are under debate. Many countries in Europe have banned the…
Posted in agriculture, ecology, miniculture
Tagged apiculture, arthropod, conservation, corn, crop, ecosystem, entomoculture, honeybee, hymenopteran, insect, insecticide, label, law, maize, neonicotinoid, pesticide, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, pollination, seed, soya, wild bee, wild pollinator
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What Is “Natural”?
Originally posted on Food (Policy) For Thought:
If you enter a grocery store and see an item claiming to be “100% natural”, what associations do you make? Would you assume it’s less processed? Healthier? Possibly even organic? At least if…
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Tagged food, food processing, food quality, grocery, label, law
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Playing the long game for GM crops in Europe
Is Europe a no-go zone for GM crops? Those are genetically modified crops, also called genetically engineered (GE) crops or biotech crops. Whether we’re a no-go zone for GM depends on whether you look at the short game or the … Continue reading
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Tagged America, arthropod, BASF, biotechnology, Bt crop, Bt toxin, carbohydrate, corn, crop, crop variety, Europe, feed, genetic modification, grocery, insect, insecticide, label, law, livestock, maize, maize MON810, Monsanto, paper, pest, pesticide, pesticide resistance, plant_dicot, plant_monocot, politics, potato, potato Amflora, research, soya, sugar beet, supermarket, trade, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
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