The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

U.S. government pushing GM crops on African countries

U.S. State Department and Trade officials are aggressively promoting acceptance of genetically modified crops in Ethiopia, South Africa, and Kenya, as boons to health and the hunger crisis. In fact, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer warned that the Trump administration would file cases in international forums protesting government restrictions on GMO imports that are not […]

How did India get inundated with GM foods?

The discovery was bad, surprising news: GMOs have made significant inroads into infant food, edible oil, and packaged food snacks, despite sale and import of GM foods being illegal in India. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) found that 32 percent of 65 tested food samples contained GMOs—35 of them were imports, with 80 […]

U.S. GMO crop acreage levels off, but still dominates corn, soybeans, and cotton

Acreage of genetically modified crops such as corn, soybeans, and cotton has leveled off but GMO varieties still account for more than 90 percent of the three crops. In 2018, herbicide-tolerant GMO soybeans accounted for 94 percent of all soybeans planted, the same percentage each year since 2014. Ninety-two percent of the corn planted in […]

Research finds consumers have “yucky” attitudes about genetically engineered foods

A new study finds that after more than 20 years of growth in genetic engineering in agriculture, consumers have largely remained skeptical, even to the point of being “grossed out” by the idea. The question of what constitutes “naturalness”—and consumers’ attitudes about it—lies at the heart of Washington University in St. Louis research from lead […]

Seed companies move to restrict dicamba spraying

Pushing back against widespread dicamba injury to non-target plants, the two largest independent U.S. seed sellers, Beck’s Hybrids and Stine Seed, are encouraging the EPA to disallow farmers from applying Monsanto’s herbicide during summer months. Dicamba is sprayed on Monsanto’s Xtend GM soybeans as a weed killer—but its volatility and drift potential caused an estimated […]