Protesters Blockade Monsanto Seed Facility in California

By Lisa Baertlein and Carey Gillam, Reuters Opponents of genetically engineered foods blocked shipments and deliveries yesterday at Monsanto Co’s vegetable seed company that developed a new genetically modified sweet corn that will hit stores this fall. The protesters, who want to […]

Native American Health Traumas Addressed

cross-posted from Indian Country By Devon G. Peña, Ph.D. One of the consequences of the conquest and settlement of North and South America by Europeans was the displacement and destruction of native biological and cultural diversity. The environmental historian Alfred Crosby has […]

Green light for GMOs to be planted in national wildlife refuges

Cross-posted from NaturalNews.com: A battle is raging over whether or not it should be legal to plant genetically-modified (GM) crops in US wildlife refuges. A little over a month after various conservation and food safety groups achieved a unified legal victory that […]