Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe

Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe


Europe will enforce the world’s first continent-wide ban on widely used insecticides linked to serious harm in bees, after a European commission vote on Monday. The landmark suspension is a victory for millions of environment […]

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Soil Association comment: M&S, Sainsbury’s, Co-Op and Tesco – GM animal feed

Soil Association comment: M&S, Sainsbury’s, Co-Op and Tesco - GM animal feed


Following announcements from M&S, Sainsbury’s, Co-Op and Tesco that they will no longer require that the farm animals in their supply chains are fed a non GM diet, Peter Melchett, […]

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Seeds of dissent: How the biotech industry is gagging the science around genetically modified foods


As the U.S. and the world braced themselves for the results of one of the most polarising and tense presidential campaigns in recent history last fall, many Californians were focused […]

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US adopts ‘Monsanto Protection Act’


Imagine a democratic government adopting a legislation that would instruct its own Agriculture Department “to ignore any judicial rulings that block the planting of crops that the court determines to […]

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Whole Foods to label food with GMO content


Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of all genetically modified foods sold in its stores, a move that some […]

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