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The Atlantic Eats Up Big Pesticide’s Poison Dollars

Feb 12, 2018Caroline CoxChemical Industry, Food

On Thursday, The Atlantic is hosting a livestreamed event called “Harvest: Transforming the Food We Eat”. It looks to be a fascinating discussion of new food technologies, including making meat without animals and other cutting-edge ideas. And don’t...

A Once-in-a-Century Pesticide (that Probably Causes Cancer)

Mar 23, 2015Caroline CoxChemical Industry, Food, Laws & Regulations

On Friday, a World Health Organization panel of scientists from 11 countries announced their decision to list glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, as a probable human carcinogen. In particular the panel noted the links between glyphosate...

Breaking Bad, The DNA Files

Oct 9, 2013Charles MargulisFood

One day I was a mild-mannered high school biology teacher, content to share my love of all things genetic with the mumble-mouthed, underwhelmed adolescent cretins known as the Class of 2035. Most of my students wouldn’t know Watson and Crick from Abercrombie and...

The Big Lie: Prop 37 and Lawsuits

Nov 3, 2012Michael GreenChildren's Health, Environmental Justice, Laws & Regulations

People should have the information they need to choose whether or not they buy genetically modified (GMO) food, so it’s been disturbing to see the lies perpetrated by Monsanto and their anti-choice allies working against Prop 37, the California GMO Right-to-Know...

CEH on Sea Change Radio: The Fight for GMO Transparency

Apr 10, 2012Ali Geering-KlineEnvironmental Justice, Food, Laws & Regulations, Tips

Have you ever tasted a strawberry whose DNA was altered to include fish genes? In the United States, genetically modified foods are not generally labeled as such. Last week, CEH’s own Communications and Food Program Director Charles Margulis was a guest on Sea...

Walmart: Behind the Curve on GMO Corn

Mar 12, 2012Charles MargulisFood, Tips

Last fall, biotech giant Monsanto announced its first new genetically modified (GMO) corn variety that would be intended for sale as whole food, in canned and frozen corn products. Previously most GMO corn went for animal feed or into highly processed foods, like corn...

Our Right to Know: GMO Food Labeling

Feb 28, 2012Charles MargulisEnvironmental Justice, Food, Tips

Earlier this month, Senator Barbara Boxer and Congressman Peter DeFazio circulated a letter to their House and Senate colleagues, calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to require labels on genetically modified (GMO) food. The letter is open for Senators...

GMO Salmon: What’s the Catch?

Jan 18, 2012Charles MargulisFood, Tips

This week, a California State Assembly committee will vote on a bill (AB 88) to require labeling of genetically modified (GMO) fish. In response to the potential FDA approval of GMO salmon, California must take this opportunity to protect state consumers’ right...

There’s Something Fishy About Failures to Label GMO Food

Oct 6, 2011Charles MargulisFood

While FDA has not yet approved sale of genetically engineered (GMO) salmon, a new “harmoniously raised” salmon just marketed last month is making GMO waves. Sold by AquaChile, the Verlasso-brand salmon claims environmental cred by reducing the use of fish feed used to...

Justice Begins with (Non-GMO) Seeds

Sep 15, 2011Charles MargulisEnvironmental Justice, Food, Tips

As the Justice Begins with Seeds conference kicks-off in San Francisco, it’s a good time for a reminder about some of the reasons that we are concerned about genetically engineered (GMO) food. For example, there is increasing concern that allergies may occur...