GMO News

Non-GMO Project lifts the veil on hidden GMOs in personal health and wellness products

The global personal health and wellness market is expected to increase 25% by 2025—raking in $7 trillion. While most consumers prioritize safe, high-quality dietary supplements and personal care products and cosmetics, the GMOs in these items often go undetected. To move toward a GMO-free wellness industry, the Non-GMO Project has partnered with the United Natural […]

New GMO alert: gene-edited microbes introduce a new twist in GMO agriculture

As many seek new approaches and tangible mechanisms to address the effects of climate change in agriculture, some are opting for solutions that involve an increased reliance on biotechnology. In September of 2022, President Biden issued the Executive Order (EO) on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure America Bioeconomy (EO […]

Doubts about safety of lab-grown meat

Despite lacking long-term safety studies to conclude that consuming lab-grown meat is harmless, some products may end up on restaurant menus this year—such as California-based UPSIDE’s chicken meat. Yet often lab-grown meats are created using immortalized cell lines—cells capable of continuously dividing and replicating as cancer cells grow, Bloomberg recently stated. No evidence has appeared […]

I’m sorry, corporate profit outweighs the right to choose

What right does our government, our research institutions, or a group of multi-national corporations have to tell anyone what they must eat, what chemicals they must use, and that their culture and environment are of little concern? By Jim Goodman Corporate money has always corrupted the political process in order to create laws and trade […]

AquaBounty to stop producing GMO salmon in Canada

In a major turn-around, the U.S. biotech company AquaBounty says it will stop producing its controversial genetically engineered Atlantic salmon in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. “This is a huge victory for everyone in PEI and across Canada who protested against this dangerous technology,” said Sharon Labchuk of the coalition GMO Free PEI. “Genetically modified fish are […]