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MEXICO ANNOUNCES BAN ON GMO CORN PLANTING ON THANKSGIVING DAY

Many of you are now tracking the growing resistance to GMO crops, and this one was sent to me by a regular reader of this site, Mr. D.W. in the United Kingdom, and this one is worth looking at closely: Mexico GMO Corn Plantings Postponed as 7,000 Years of Agriculture Hangs in the Balance Now let's put this into a bit of context: the Mexican drug cartels run rampant in the northern states of that country, and more recently, with the US government clearly implicated in running guns to the same cartels, one can hardly blame Mexicans for wanting to call a halt, even if only temporary, to the … [Read more...]

NEW STUDY: GMO FOODS DISRUPT ORGANS IN TEST ANIMALS

I've written here before about the subject of genetically modified foods and the corporate antics (and believe me, that's a kind word for it) surrounding it, and how argicultural giants like Monsanto, Archer Daniels Midland, DuPont and so on, were able to short circuit the regulatory process to introduce a variety of genetically modified crops and foods not only in this country but around the world. For our purposes here, it behooves us to note that when genetically modified foods, growth hormones, and so on were first being proposed by various companies, the concern they had was the … [Read more...]