A Dutch scientist is offering the world’s first cultivated beef made of stem cells to taste. He believes the lab-grown meat will feed the world and help save the environment. The tasting event happens amid UN calls to invest more in food innovation. The 5-ounce burger which costs $332,000 to produce was fried and taste-tested by volunteers at an event in London on Monday, Bloomberg quotes the creator of the burger scientist Mark Post of Maastricht University. Sergey Brin, co-founder and CEO of Google, bankrolled the scientists’ project to promote animal welfare. Brin’s personal wealth is estimated by Forbes to be $22.8 billion, and he is known for an eclectic range of start-ups, from driverless cars to private space expeditions. citeste si comenteaza …

Aproximativ 270.000 de agricultori din SUA, care fac parte din ferme și organizații agricole ecologice private, au depus plângere în instanta împotriva gigantului Monsanto, firmă specializată în biotehnologie vegetală și lider în domeniul organismelor modificate genetic (OMG). Compania este acuzata de distrugerea sistematica a culturilor ecologice independente. Plângerea a fost depusă la o judecătorie din Manhattan, iar fermierii americani susțin că plantațiile de porumb, de bumbac, trestie de zahar sau grădinile de legume sunt contaminate de organismele modificate genetic pe care Monsanto le cultivă în apropiere.

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Unless the rice you buy is certified organic, or comes specifically from a farm that tests its rice crops for genetically modified (GM) traits, you could be eating rice tainted with actual human genes. The only known GMO with inbred human traits in cultivation today, a GM rice product made by biotechnology company Ventria Bioscience is currently being grown on 3,200 acres in Junction City, Kansas — and possibly elsewhere — and most people have no idea about it. Since about 2006,Ventria has been quietly cultivating rice that has been genetically modified (GM) with genes from the human liver for the purpose of taking the artificial proteins produced by this “Frankenrice” and using them in pharmaceuticals. With approval from the U.S. Department citeste si comenteaza …

(Black Listed Radio) The amounts allocated under official provisions to candidates in support of their House or Senate election campaign are by no means large. What is striking, however, is that the contributions are spread out and include a large number of both Republicans and Democrats. Whoever wins, Monsanto has the support of the White House, the Senate and the House, not to mention key appoints in the US Department of Agriculture (USDA and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). “While there are numerous points of overlap between Monsanto and the United States Government under the Obama administration, the three most important connections are that of Michael Taylor, Roger, Beachy, and Islam Siddiqui—all three of these Monsanto affiliates were appointed to high level citeste si comenteaza …

Did you hear about the 800 esteemed scientists who came together and demanded the production of genetically modified crops and products be stopped? Scientists who called on world powers to re-evaluate the future of agriculture and seek sustainability rather than corporate profits? Don’t be surprised if you haven’t, as the mainstream media won’t touch this one. Eight-hundred scientists did make such a demand. They made it first over a decade ago and they have updated it over the years, adding signatures and release dates. Still global powers have all but ignored their calls. The Institute of Science in Society is a non-profit group of scientists from around the world, dedicated to bringing an end to what they refer to as the “dangerous GMO “experiment. citeste si comenteaza …

In the not too distant future, consumers will be able to run on-the-spot tests for environmental toxins, GMOs, pesticides, food safety and more with their smartphones and other hand-held devices. Every human being on every developed nation on Earth, whether living in a rural or isolated area, in the middle of a large city, or near an industrialized area, now contains at least 700 contaminants in their body including pesticides, pthalates, benzenes, parabens, xylenes and many other carcinogenic and endrocrine disrupting chemicals. We are being bombarded on a daily basis by an astronomical level of toxicity, all controlled by chemical terrorists on behalf of the food industry. Morever, many of these toxins affect our fertility and those of successive generations. citeste si comenteaza …

Sâmbătă, 25 mai 2013, în Bucureşti, va avea loc o demonstraţie împotriva Monsanto, cel mai mare producător de organisme modificate genetic (OMG) la nivel mondial, companie prezentă şi în România. Manifestaţia va începe la ora 15.30 în parcul Eroilor, lângă statuia Eroilor Sanitari şi va continua la ora 16:00 cu un marş până în Piaţa Unirii, cu oprire la Ministerul Agriculturii. Evenimentul se înscrie unei serii de peste 400 de acţiuni organizate la nivel internaţional în peste 50 de ţări, sub denumirea “March against Monsanto!”*. În cadrul marşului, bucureştenii îşi vor exprima nemulţumirea atât faţă de lobby-ul companiei Monsanto pe lângă autorităţile române, manipularea şi presiunea asupra micilor producători, cât şi faţă de atitudinea instituţiilor române citeste si comenteaza …