The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

Italy bans lab-grown food as threat to tradition

Italy wants to safeguard its agri-food heritage, and its agriculture ministry feels high-tech, laboratory-produced food— “from cell cultures or tissues derived from vertebrate animals”—goes against its priority. “Laboratory products in our opinion do not guarantee quality, well-being and the protection of our culture, our tradition,” said Minister Francesco Lollobrigida, a senior member of Prime Minister […]

GMO mosquito experiment halted in California’s Central Valley

Environmentalists, scientists, and unprotected agricultural communities across California were pleased this May when the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) announced the withdrawal of a permit for a mass release of genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Central Valley. The biotech corporation Oxitec won’t be releasing billions of the GM insects in Tulare County without sufficient […]

Unfair U.S. trade practices undermine Mexico’s food self-sufficiency efforts

New report reveals how U.S. agricultural dumping has led to lost income for Mexican farmers, increased dependency on imports for food staples and high import costs with today’s high prices A new report from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy’s Timothy A. Wise documents how the United States’ practice of agricultural dumping of cheap exports into […]

Mexico emphasizes right to ban imports of GMO white corn

The Mexican people support their government’s ban on the use of genetically modified white corn for manufacturing flour and tortillas. The ban will also have little impact on the Mexican food industry. Mexico gave in to U.S. demands to allow imports of GMO yellow corn for animal feed but the ban introduced by the government […]

Ronnie Cummins, 1946-2023

Ronnie Cummins, a powerful advocate for regenerative organic agriculture and food production, passed away in Mexico on April 26, 2023 to recently diagnosed bone and lymph cancer. Cummins was the Co-founder and International Director of the Organic Consumers Association, (OCA) and its international affiliates, Regeneration International and Vía Orgánica. Ronnie was a leading figure in […]