Jennifer Kahn’s “love GMOs” article in NYT is propaganda, not journalism

By Stacy Malkan World leaders gathered in Rome in late July to discuss how to fix the food system amid one of the worst hunger crises in recent times. According to a new United Nations report on hunger, more than 2.37 billion people did not have adequate access to food in 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic […]

Texas grape growers sue over dicamba herbicide drift damage

Neal Newsom has battled many foes since 1986 to protect his 150 acres of grapevines near Plains, Texas, including cold weather and hailstorms. But in recent years he’s up against the agro-chemical dicamba herbicide sprayed on nearby GM cotton crops. Newsom filed a lawsuit recently with 56 Texas grape growers, seeking $1 million in damages […]

Non-GMO lecithin supplier LECICO announces new director

LECICO, global supplier of non-GMO specialty lecithins and phospholipids, has a new managing director—Sarah Bradley, CEO of Kerfoot, also an Avril Group company. Bradley will manage global growth in the food, nutrition and pharmaceutical markets. Bradley announced that Philipp Sommer will become business director at LECICO. Sommer joins from leading distribution company Nordmann, where he […]

Guess what’s coming to dinner? Genetically engineered fish and meat, maybe soon

Like it or not, genetically modified animals may soon be sitting on Americans’ dinner tables. Sonny Perdue, former U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary, proposed on his final day in office to move oversight and regulation of genetically modified animals from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to the USDA—a move that would significantly reduce safeguards […]

Up to 144,000 genetically engineered mosquitoes released in the Florida Keys

The Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) and Oxitec, a British biotech company, began the first-ever U.S. release of genetically engineered (GE) Aedes aegypti mosquitoes at the end of April. Despite scientific concerns and public outcry over the human health and environment risks, the field trial’s first phase will release up to 144,000 GE mosquitoes […]