The Organic & Non-GMO Report Newsletter

Monsanto-Bayer loses second trial over Roundup-cancer link

Jury finds Bayer liable for man’s cancer, orders company to $80 million in damages

Companies offering contracts to grow organic and non-GMO grains

The following companies are offering contracts to farmers to grow organic and non-GMO grains in 2019.   Brushvale Seed, Inc. Breckenridge, MN Phone: 218-643-2311 Email: travis@brushvaleseed.com Contact: Travis Meyer Contracts offered: Non-GMO food grade soybeans.   Clark Specialty Grains Gothenburg, NE Phone:  308-537-2004 Email:  jim.clark@clarkspecialtygrains.com Contact:  Jim Clark Contracts offered: Non-GMO conventionally grown and organically grown yellow, white, blue, and […]

United Nations hits the brakes on gene drives

Landmark Convention on Biological Diversity decision calls on governments to conduct strict risk assessments and seek indigenous and local peoples’ consent ahead of potential release of “exterminator” technology. The UN recently made a significant global decision on how to govern a high-risk, new genetic engineering technology—gene drives. “This important decision puts controls on gene drives […]

Experts agree: New GMOs can be detected

A French scientist and other experts rebut claims that genome-edited products cannot be distinguished from natural products, and thus cannot be detected or regulated GMO proponents lobbying for lax regulation of genetically modified plants and animals produced with “new GM” techniques, including genome editing, argue that living organisms naturally contain many mutations (DNA damage), making […]

Scientists have “hacked photosynthesis” in search of more productive crops

Photosynthesis, the process through which plants take in carbon dioxide and produce food using energy from the sun, has been working well to support life on Earth for quite some time. The protein Rubisco plays a key function, that scientists from the University of Illinois are focused on repairing. “It has what we like to […]