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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGMO labels hit home in Midlands, where common crops are often grown from modified seeds
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The words Non-GMO Project Verified are showing up on more and more products found in grocery stores nationwide, largely in response to consumer concerns.
http://www.livewellnebraska.com/nutrition/gmo-labels-hit-home-in-midlands-where-common-crops-are/article_521ec01c-2d77-50a1-9f41-4b417fbad469.html
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 12:30 am
By Barbara Soderlin / World-Herald staff writer
We already check food labels for calories and ingredients, and maybe whether a product is organic or gluten-free.
This spring, expect a new phrase on labels at the grocery store: Produced with genetic engineering.
That might sound strange, but whats changed isnt the food, just the label. It means your food contains ingredients made from genetically modified corn, soybeans or other crops.
Major food companies including Omahas ConAgra Foods announced last week they are adding the information about the GMOs to cans and boxes ahead of a Vermont law taking effect July 1.
FULL story at link.
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GMO labels hit home in Midlands, where common crops are often grown from modified seeds (Original Post)
Omaha Steve
Mar 2016
OP
nationalize the fed
(2,169 posts)1. Experience shows that many people
are not happy upon learning that most of the food in a market that comes in a box has some kind of GMO sugar, corn or soy in it- like cereal, chili, candy, soy sauce, salad dressing, pancake syrup and more...
Think you're avoiding GMO's?
It's a crime to sneak things into people's food. Perhaps a class action lawsuit can be brought.
GMO's - "The Biggest Scientific Fraud of Our Age"
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth
http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Genes-Twisted-Truth-Systematically/dp/0985616903/
This book uncovers the biggest scientific fraud of our age. It tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to restructure the genetic core of the world's food supply came into being, how it advanced by consistently violating the protocols of science, and how for more than three decades, hundreds of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of its productsand get them onto our dinner plates.
Altered Genes, Twisted Truth provides a graphic account of how this elaborate fraud was crafted and how it not only deceived the general public, but Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Barack Obama and a host of other astute and influential individuals as well.
The book also exposes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was induced to become a key accomplice--and how it has broken the law and repeatedly lied in order to usher genetically engineered foods onto the market without the safety testing that's required by federal statute. As a result, for fifteen years America's families have been regularly ingesting a group of novel products that the FDA's own scientific staff had previously determined to be unduly hazardous to human health.
Archae
(46,317 posts)2. The author of that book is a fraud.
You know what Steven Druker does for a living?
No, not write books, he's VP of a college.
The Maharishi Yogi "college."
Advanced study there:
http://gmopundit.blogspot.com/2015/03/steven-drukers-book-not-worth-reading.html