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This week, Connecticut won the honor of becoming the first state to pass a law requiring genetically-engineered foods to be labeled. (The ... more
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Tell Congress to Stop the Corporate Farm Bill Boondoggle!
Obama Would Veto House's Farm Bill, White House Says
Scientists Say New Study Shows Pig Health Hurt by GMO Feed
Broad Coalition of Food Advocates Attend Public Hearing on Proposed “GMO” Labeling Bills
Appeals Court Binds Monsanto To Promise Not To Sue Organic Farmers
Kansas Farmer Sues Monsanto Over GMO Wheat Discovery
Connecticut Makes History as First State to Pass GMO Food Labeling Law
CT First In The Nation To Pass GMO Labeling Bill
Malloy, Legislative Leaders Announce Agreement on GMO Labeling Legislation
Politicians Flinch as a Grass-Root Movement Comes of Age to Force GMO Labeling
Monsanto Shares Fall as South Korea Joins Pause in Wheat Imports
GMO Wheat Found In Oregon Field. How Did It Get There?
GMO Labeling At Risk in Connecticut
Target, Giant Eagle, H-E-B, Meijer say No to GMO salmon
'March Against Monsanto' Protesters Rally Against U.S. Seed Giant And GMO Products
The March to Stop Monsanto: Taking Back Our Food, Our Farms, Our Democracy and Our Planet
GMO Labeling Bill Voted Down: Senate Betrays America Once Again!
Tell the Senate to Protect States' Rights to Label GMOs: Don't Let Monsanto Write the Rules
Tell Congress to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act and Support Organics!
Connecticut Senate Backs Bill To Label Genetically Modified Foods
Tell Congress to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act!
New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia: GMO BT Cry-Toxins May Contribute to Blood Abnormalities
Maine Agriculture Committee Votes to Pass GMO Labeling Bill
Food Democracy Now! Slams Supreme Court Ruling on Monsanto’s GMO Seed Patents
Supreme Court Supports Monsanto in GMO Seed-Replication Case
USDA Says More Review Needed for New Monsanto, Dow GMO Crops
Kentucky Hemp Lobby Makes Inroads In Washington
Tell Connecticut to Label GMOs!
Former Pro-GMO Scientist Speaks Out On The Real Dangers of Genetically Engineered Food
Nearly 2 Million People Tell the FDA Not to Approve GMO Salmon
Stop Oregon's Monsanto Protection Act!
Mad Cow Infected Blood 'To Kill 1,000’ from Blood Transfusions in British Hospitals
Peru Bans GMOs for 10 Years: Enacts Law to Protect Nation's Biodiversity and Biosecurity
AquaBounty CEO says GMO salmon to be approved in 2013
New Study: Heavy Use of the Herbicide Roundup Linked to Health Dangers
Long Live the Purity of Seeds for Broccoli: GMOs Threaten World Seed Supply
Del Monte Gets Approval to Import GMO Pineapple
Why Labels on Genetically Engineered Foods Won’t Cost Consumers a Dime
Monsanto's Hometown Paper Takes Missouri Senator Roy Blunt to Task for Monsanto Protection Act
Stop the Monsanto Protection Act in Oregon
You're invited - American Meat makes NYC premiere!
'Monsanto Protection Act': 5 Terrifying Things To Know About The HR 933 Provision
Monsanto Protection Act Now ‘Disavowed’ By Senate Appropriations Chair
Monsanto Teams up with Congress to Shred the Constitution
Mikulski Spokeswoman Statement on Provision in Agriculture Appropriations Bill
Obama signs 'Monsanto Protection Act', America Mourns
Obama signs Monsanto Protection Act! Betrays America - It's Time to Label GMOs!
President Obama, Stop the Monsanto Protection Act
UPDATE: 200,000 - Tell President Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act, You In?
100,000 Tell President Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act! You In?
New Worries for World's Water: GMO Antibiotic Resistant Genes Found in China's Rivers
Doubts Surface About Safety of Common Food Additive, Carrageenan
Food Democracy Now! Urges President Obama to Veto the Monsanto Protection Act
Update: Congress Passes Monsanto Protection Act!
Senate Caves on Monsanto Protect Act, Monsanto Wins!
Scientists Develop Flying Robobees to Pollinate Flowers as Bee Populations Decline
Grocery Stores Refuse to Sell GMO Salmon as Americans Reject First Transgenic Animal
Monarch Migration Plunges to Lowest Level in Decades
Join Food Democracy Now! and Ben & Jerry at state capital in Hartford today to label GMOs
Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
Labeling of Genetically Engineered Baby Food and Baby Formula
Whole Foods Promises to Label GMO Ingredients by 2018
Whole Foods Commits to 'Full GMO Transparency' By 2018 , Is this Soon Enough?
Peanut Corporation of America Executives Indicted
Global Growth of GM Crops Overblown: ISAAA yearly report misleads
Supreme Court sympathizes with Monsanto in seed patent case
GMO Labeling Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress
Tell Hershey's to Kiss Monsanto Goodbye!
Maryland Legislator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods
Tell Washington to Support I-522 - I want GMO labeling now!
Bhutan Set to Plow Ahead As World's First Wholly Organic Country
Tell California - I want GMO labeling now!
75-year-old soybean farmer sees Monsanto lawsuit reach U.S. Supreme Court
Tell Connecticut to Label GMOs!
STRIKE OVER! Workers at UNFI Vote to Ratify 5-Year Contract Agreement
Domestic Fair Trade: A Plea to UNFI and Whole Foods for Justice
Super Bowl Starts with Pepsi Boycott - Refresh Democracy!
Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
And Now a Word from Our Sponsors: Are Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Shilling For Big Food?
Europe Halts New GMO Crop Approvals Until 2014
Breaking: Dow Says New Genetically Modified Corn Delayed Until 2014
Farmers in OSGATA vs Monsanto Tell Obama to Stop GMO Salmon
Insecticide 'Unacceptable' Danger to Bees, Report Finds
Family Farmers Travel to Nation's Capital to Stand Up to Monsanto and Voice Concerns Over GMOs
Courageous Rancher Vows to Continue Lawsuit Against Beef Checkoff
Beyonce Betrays the Pepsi Generation: When Great Superstars Endorse Bad Lifestyle Choices
Twitter party for Farmers vs. Monsanto - Join us!
Food Writers Who Forget Rural America
Citizens in India Gain Right to GMO Labeling in 2012: In 2013, Americans Still Denied Basic Right
Farmers vs Monsanto: Will You March?
Family Farmers to Travel to Washington, D.C. to Take on Monsanto
Photographic Adventure Reveals the Frightening Deadness of Genetically Engineered Corn Field
Genetically Engineered Bacon on Its Way: GMO Pig Development Gets $500,000 from USDA
Forward Together! Prop 37, GMO Labeling and Building the Food Movement
It's time to Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
CA Prop 37 GMO Labeling Votes Still Being Counted, Fraud Accusations
Food safety group calls for court to limit GMO seed patents
BREAKING: Prop 37 election fraud?
Ten Year Ban on Genetically Modified Seeds and Foods Takes Force Thursday
Chef Tom Colicchio Shines Spotlight on Antibiotic Use in U.S. Meat Industry
Family Farmers Return to Court in OSGATA vs Monsanto: Oral Arguent Slated for January 10, 2013
Food Activists Look to Other States after Failed California Measure
With Proposition 37 Defeated, Food Movement Vows to Fight On
Documented Deceptions of No on 37 Campaign
12 Days to Stop Monsanto - Prop 37
LA City Council unanimously endorses Prop 37, supports labeling GMOs
Call for GMO Labeling: Prop 37 is up to You!
Supreme Court of India Panel Recommends Stopping GMO Crop Trials
Yes on 37 GMO Labeling Heroes and Zeroes
Don't Let the Pesticide Companies Buy Your Vote!
Yes on 37 Event - An Evening with the Heroes of Prop 37 - to Label Genetically Enigneered Foods
No On 37 Campaign Spokesman Has Extreme Views On Tobacco, Climate Change, Radiation And DDT
Did Monsanto Write This Op-Ed Signed by a UC Davis Professor?
Russia Suspends Use of Genetically Modified Corn
Breaking: Experts Discuss the Findings of the Roundup/GMO Cancer Trial
New GMO Crop Could Cause Liver Failure Scientists Say
Tell Obama, Vilsack, Monsanto and Dow – NO more Rubberstamps!
Monsanto: Lead Funder of No on Prop. 37 Campaign Promoted GMO Labeling In Europe
'Mounting Evidence' of Bug-Resistant Corn Seen by EPA
Delegate’s Demands GMO Labeling at Democratic Convention
A National Call for Unity - Label GMOs!
Monsanto Gives $4.2 Million to Kill California GMO Labeling Initiative
Big Pesticide, Processed Food Companies Spend $10 Million to Fight Honest Food Labels
Nation’s Top Food Makers Opposing Honest Food Labels
Fighting GMO Labeling in California Is Food Lobby's "Highest Priority"
Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods: Whose Side Are You On?
Yes on 37 Organizing “One Million More” Voters for the Right to Know What’s in Our Food
A Donation for Organic, Against Monsanto
Stop Superbugs from Coming to a Plate Near You!
Tell Obama to Keep Antibiotics Out of Your Food
America's Family Farmers Fight Monsanto's Scorched Earth Legal Campaign of Threats and Intimidation
Stop the Monsanto Protection Act
Senate Rejects Sanders’ Food Labeling Amendment - 26 Heroes 73 Zeros
Urgent: Senate votes on GMO labeling today
Update: Senate farm bill Now! - Good, Bad and Ugly
Urgent: Farm Bill vote only hours away
Five million Brazilian farmers take on biotech giant Monsanto
AMA to Consider Genetically Modified Foods
Tell your Senator "I Support GMO labeling"!
Senators Sanders and Boxer Announce Farm Bill Amendment To Label GMOs!
Farm Bill Jackpot – How Much do Corporations Benefit from SNAP?
USA Today: Fight Over Genetically Engineered Crops on Calif. Ballot
Join the Senate Floor Fight for a Healthy, Sustainable Food and Farm Billl
Letter signed by 70 food and health leaders delivered to Congress
Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food
BREAKING: Obama Campaign Stop at Factory Farm Propaganda Site, Billed as “Grassroots Event”
Bee Kills in the Corn Belt: What's GE Got to Do With It?
GMO 'Right to Know' campaign in CT fails — Lawsuit threatened
Tell Vilsack No Pink Slime in School Lunches – Ever again!
Death Knell May Sound for Canada's GMO Enviropig
Farmers Determined to Defend Right to Grow Food File Appeal in OSGATA vs. Monsanto
48 Hours to tell Congress to Label GMOs!
Tell Congress: I Want an Organic Farm Bill
Video: I Stand with Farmers vs. Monsanto
Organic Farmers Sue Monsanto, Hundreds Converge in Support
Organic farmers’ suit against Monsanto’s genetically modified seeds
Farmers advance in their suit against Monsanto
Modified Crops Tap a Wellspring of Protest
Photos from A Citizen's Assembly: OSGATA et al vs Monsanto J31
Hinesburg farmers join lawsuit challenging Monsanto by Sally Pollack
OSGATA et al. v. Monsanto: Will Farmers Receive Justice?
Family Farmers Get Their Day In Court Against Monsanto
A Citizen's Assembly of Support for Family Farmers vs. Monsanto
Occupy Iowa Caucus: A Democrat "Uncommitted" in 2012 or Why I Won’t Caucus for Obama a Second Time
Judge to consider oral arguments in lawsuit against Monsanto
Happy Holidays: Farmers March on Wall Street
Farmers March with Occupy Wall Street: Sowing the Seeds of Hope and Democracy
Urban-Rural Solidarity: Farmers March on Wall Street
48 Hours to Stop Obama's New Tax on Family Farms
Immediate Release: Family Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street Farmers March in Solidarity
Speakers Update: Today Occupy Wall Street Farmers March - Sunday Dec 4th
Join the Farmers March on Wall Street - Dec 4th
Super Committee Fails, Secret Farm Bill Dies Ahead of Thanksgiving
Corrupt Bargain Reached on Secret Farm Bill: Details to Be Announced
Breaking: Secret Farm Bill Deal About to be Made
Four years ago today Obama and GMOs
Last Chance to Kill the Secret Farm Bill
Update: 24 Hours to Kill the Secert Farm Bill
24 Hours to Kill the "Secret Farm Bill"
Occupy Against Big Food tomorrow Zuccotti Park: 1 to 4 pm
Enough Tricks: Consumers Speak Up Against Monsanto’s GMO Sweet Corn
If You Eat, You Better Occupy Wall Street - Join World Food Day
New Rules Will Support Farmers and Jobs
Breaking Video: 2007 Campaign Promise, Obama Says He'll Label GMOs If Elected
Join the Right2Know March to Label GMOs: 313 Mile Walk from New York City to the White House
Taxpayer Subsidies Prop Up Junk Food Industry with Billions
Monsanto’s GM Sweet Corn Coming to America’s Dinner Plates
If You Eat, You Better Get GIPSA
Action: If You Eat, You Better Get GIPSA
Tell Obama to Dump Monsanto's Minion at the FDA
Veteran Filmmaker Jan Weber Continues Her Documentary Travels
Tell Us How You Think Obama's Doing!
Politics, Farmers and Change: The End of Rural America
Farmers Defend Right to Protect Themselves From Monsanto Patents
24 Hours to Stop Monsanto's Erratic Genes
Join Us For The Iowa Premiere of the Groundbreaking Documentary - American Meat
Save a Farmer Today, Tell Obama to Create Fair Contracts for Family Farmers
Farmers must boost sustainable crops to feed the world
Public kept in the dark on Roundup link with birth defects
Family Farmers Amplify Complaint Against Monsanto’s GMOs
Ag Gag 2011: What Does Agribusiness Have to Hide in Iowa?
Why Did Tom Vilsack Ignore This Warning?
Will the USDA Toss the Sustainable Ag Movement A Perennial Bone?
"More Details on the Strange Organism That Could Destroy Monsanto"
Is Monsanto Sowing the Seeds of Disease and Infertility?
Monsanto, Biotech Industry Allowed to Conduct Their Own GMO Assessments
Will the U.S. hog industry ever kick its reliance on low-dose antibiotics?
Dr. Don Huber's cover letter to the EU and UK commissions
"Genetically modified cows produce human milk"
Dr. Huber's letter to Secretary Vilsack
Farmers and Consumer Groups File Lawsuit Challenging GMO Alfalfa Approval
Public Patent Foundation - Monsanto Seed Patents
Iowa Farmer and Sustainable Hero, Denise O'Brien Joins Obama Administration, Heads to Afghanistan
Save a farmer today - Help level the playing field - Call Congress Today
Update: Obama Goes Rogue on GMOs - Tell him to say NO to Monsanto: Part 3
Nature Happens - Humans Can't Control Everything, Particularly GE Alfalfa
Organic Dairy Farmer Albert Straus Speaks Out Against USDA’s Decision on GMO Alfalfa
Making Hay is as Messy as Making Sausages: Deregulating GE Alfalfa
Tell Obama We Are United Against Monsanto's GMO Alfalfa
EcoFarm Attendees Criticize USDA Decision to Allow GMO Alfalfa
Monsanto's Members of Congress Send Pro-GMO Letter to Secretary Vilsack
Act Now or Kiss your Organics good-bye!
Leopold Center offers plan to boost local food economy in Iowa
Colony Collapse or Killing Bees for Fun and Profit
Violins anyone? "Policy shift concerns biotech companies"
Top 5 food policy gains in 2010 (and what’s lagging behind)
Food Safety Bill Advocates Expect Funding Fight
The Rise of Agriculture: Orgies or Beer? You Only Get One
Update: Food Safety Bill Passes from Senate Back to House, Awaits President's Signature
Marler Says: Food Safety Bill May Soon Dine with the Fishes
Different Ideas about “Quality of Life”, Insights from Final DOJ/USDA Anti-Competition Hearing
Senate May Clear Path for Food Safety This Week
Your Voices Were Heard Loud and Clear in DC this Week, Thanks for Standing Up for Family Farmers
Activists Submit 240,000 Comments Demanding Action to Curb Food Monopolies
Join us in DC - It's Time to Bust up Big Food!
S.510 Clears Key Vote, Debate to Resume Today
Urgent VOTE TODAY: Final Food Safety Bill Vote Tonight - Call Now!
Mayhem on the Hill, Big Ag Declares War on Food Safety Bill
Politics, Small Farm Deal Stall Food Safety Bill
Food Safety Bill Clears Cloture: 74-25 Vote
Urgent Vote: Michael Pollan supports farmers: Do your Senators?
Critical Food Safety Vote on Nov. 17th - Call Your Senator Now!
New USDA Report: "Household Food Security in the U.S. 2009
Bombshell Revelation: FDA coverup on GMO Salmon - Act Today!
Iowa Governor 2010: Who Will Be the Worst Environmental Governor of the 21st Century?
First Lady Michelle Obama's White House Garden Continues to Inspire People Around the Globe!
Sustainability: How will agribusiness marketing redefine the term?
A New Agriculture Comes Alive in the Big Apple
Prop 23: A Threat to California Agriculture
Salmonella Egg King Jack DeCoster to Testify in Congress
Why are healthy food advocates stumping for Pepsi?
The Creepy Science Behind GMO "Frankenfish"
Act Today: Tell the FDA you won’t eat GMO salmon
Half A Billion Eggs, DeCoster, Factory Farms & Consolidation: The View From Iowa
Trader Joe’s, Fareway Stores Inc., Agree to Pull DeCoster-affiliated Egg Brands from their Shelves
Is your grocery store harboring "bad eggs"? It's time to fight back!
Salmonella Egg Recall Michael Pollan on CNN with Sanjay Gupta: Food Safety and Local Foods
Federal Court Rescinds USDA Approval of Genetically Engineered Sugar Beets
Urgent: Action Needed to Save World's First Seed Bank
McDonald's: Jumping on the Locavore Bandwagon
Pesticide Lobby Launches Three-Year Campaign Against Organics
Monsanto Agrees to $2.5 million Fine for Sale of GMO Cotton Seeds
Vilsack: Farm Bill Should Emphasize Beginning Farmers
VIDEO: Cooking up a Story Takes on Monsanto Spin in Supreme Court GMO Alfalfa Case
DOJ Announces Agenda for Dairy Hearing in Madison, WI June 25th
Q&A With Eric Schlosser (from Food Safety News)
Haiti aid must help Haitian farmers, not Big Ag
DOJ / USDA Hearing in Alabama on Poultry - News Wrapup
ADHD in Kids Tied to Organophosphate Pesticides
Department of Justice and USDA Announce Schedule and Panelists for Agriculture Workshop in Alabama
Supreme Court Nominee Elena Kagan Goes to Bat for Monsanto, Sides With Conservative Justices
Obama State Department Official Pledges to Confront Global Biotech / GMO Critics
Poultry Industry Gets New Performance Standards
Feds Investigate Major Meatpackers as Obama Administration Looks for Tougher Antitrust Action
Vilsack: Rural America Faces a 'Silent Crisis'
USDA Announces Upcoming Purchases of Commodities For Federal Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs
Senators Challenge "Know Your Farmer" Program
Supreme Court Hears Arguments on Genetically Modified Seeds
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Makes Case for Stronger Rural America
Supreme Court Questions Ban of Biotech alfalfa
Ten Good Reasons Why GMOs Are Not Compatible With Organic Agriculture
Food Inc. Airs on PBS for Earth Day - April 21 thru May 3
140 Groups & Scientists Urge Senate to Oppose GM Clause in Global Food Security Act
Meat, Poultry Industries Await New Antitrust Rules
Senate Gears Up for Action on Food Safety
Response to Professor Mitloehner
Judge Denies Dean Foods' Motion to Dismiss Antitrust Case
Unsupported Claims About Livestock and Climate Change in the Media
Oklahoma Growers Win $7.3M Verdict Against Tyson
Break Up the Meatpacker-Retailer Cartel
