GMO Labeling Bill Passes Senate, Headed For House Vote

The U.S. Senate has approved a controversial bill which would create a federal standard for labeling foods that contain genetically engineered or modified ingredients.

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
According to a recent poll, approximately 93% of all Americans support GMO labeling. (Photo: CT Senate Democrats/ cc/ Flickr)

On Thursday, the U.S. Senate approved the “Agriculture Biotechnology Solution” bill  which will require foods containing genetically modified ingredients to be labeled with words, pictures, or a QR code that must be scanned by a smartphone. The Senate voted 63 to 30 to approve the bill after a controversial cloture vote on Wednesday. The bill will

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March Against Monsanto Takes Manhattan As Global Protests Approach

Representatives of the March Against Monsanto campaign reported that glyphosate, the major ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup pesticide, ‘is consistently being discovered in everything from hospital feeding tubes and tampons to the breast milk of nursing mothers.’

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By MintPress News Desk
Monsanto Billboard

NEW YORK --- Shoppers and tourists in Times Square will be alerted to the dangers of genetically modified organisms thanks to a new billboard campaign. The anti-GMO billboard, sponsored by March Against Monsanto, is slated to run from April 25 to May 25 in the Manhattan hotspot. The campaign coincides with the 4th annual March Against Monsanto,

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Monsanto’s GMO Soybean Faces Rejection In US, Patent Battle In Argentina

Unless the European Union approves Monsanto’s GMO soybeans, farmers in the U.S. could see their fall harvests turned away by major grain-trading corporations.

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Activists raise public awareness about the consequences of using Monsanto herbicides in Argentina.

ST. LOUIS --- Monsanto, the controversial biotech seed giant, keeps running into trouble on the lucrative GMO soybean market this year. Although 94 percent of U.S. soybean crops come from genetically modified seeds, Monsanto’s latest offering isn’t meeting with the approval of grain traders in the United States. Called “Roundup Ready 2 Xtend,”

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USDA okays Monsanto’s herbicide-resistant GMO corn w/o permits

These resistances allow farmers to grow plants that aren’t destroyed by herbicides produced by the same companies that designed the genetically-modified crops themselves.

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Ethanols Environmental Damage Illinois

The US Department of Agriculture will end regulation of Monsanto’s genetically-modified corn that is engineered to resist the company’s herbicide, the federal regulator said. Farmers will now be able to plant the corn strains without permits. The action, announced by USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on Wednesday, applies to

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India Found A Way To Rid Itself Of Monsanto

U.S. seed giant Monsanto has threatened to pull its genetically modified crop technology from India if the government goes ahead with its plan to cut the company’s royalty fees.

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By Associated Press
Indian laborers unload cotton from a truck at a cotton mill near Kadi, about 55 kilometers (34 miles) from Ahmadabad, India. U.S. seed giant Monsanto has threatened to pull its genetically modified crop technology from India if the government goes ahead with its plan to cut the company's royalty fees. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki, file)

NEW DELHI  — U.S. seed giant Monsanto has threatened to pull its genetically modified crop technology from India if the government goes ahead with its plan to cut the company's royalty fees. Monsanto's joint venture firm in India said that it would be difficult to bring new technologies to India because it was becoming difficult for the company

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A Vote On Controversial DARK Act Looms On The Horizon

A controversial bill that would create a federal standard for labeling genetically modified or engineered foods was approved by the Senate Agricultural Committee.

Derrick Broze
By Derrick Broze
GMO labeling

A bill that would “amend the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 to require the Secretary of Agriculture to establish a national voluntary labeling standard for bioengineered foods,” passed the Senate Agricultural Committee by a vote of 14-6.The legislation, introduced by Senator Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) in late February, create a federal voluntary

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