EU Commission’s draft GMO Regulation: Charter for the GM industry
EU Commission waters down GM regulation just as new research shows “safe” GM maize causes increased tumours, organ damage, and premature death 20 September 2012 The European Commission is pushing through a new Regulation [1] that fatally weakens the way genetically modified (GM) foods are assessed for safety, according to a new report released today by Earth Open [...]
Dutch Parliament moves against glyphosate, citing evidence in Earth Open Source report
In September 2011 a Green Member of the Dutch Parliament, Rik Grashoff, put forward a Parliamentary motion proposing a ban on the "commercial use" of Roundup outside agriculture. In the motion, Grashoff cited evidence presented in Earth Open Source's report, "Roundup and birth defects: Is the public being kept in the dark?". This report revealed that industry's own studies carried [...]
Birth defects caused by glyphosate, Andres Carrasco
A new video of Andres Carrasco, professor of Molecular Embryology Laboratory at University of Buenos Aires, talking about his research showing birth defects cause by glyphosate, present in Roundup Ready Soy. […]
Too few farms and these too large
By Evaggelos Vallianatos, 12 July 2012 Walter Goldschmidt, 1913-2010, was an anthropologist who worked for the US Department of Agriculture. In the early 1940s, he brought to light the undoing of rural America by large farmers and warned USDA officials that large farmers were destabilizing rural communities in the Central Valley of California.1 […]
Why genetically engineered food is dangerous: New report by genetic engineers
Earth Open Source press release 17 June 2012 Aren’t critics of genetically engineered food anti-science? Isn’t the debate over GMOs (genetically modified organisms) a spat between emotional but ignorant activists on one hand and rational GM-supporting scientists on the other? […]