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Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., is a physicist and activist who works tirelessly to defend the environment and protect biodiversity from multinational corporations. Her life's work has culminated in the creation of seed banks that may one day save future generations' food sovereignty, but how she got there is a fascinating story, chronicled in the documentary "The Seeds of Vandana Shiva."
At least five countries — Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile and the U.S. — have approved a variety of maize genetically modified (GM) with a genome editing technique called CRISPR, without subjecting the crop to the risk assessments and regulations for GM crops. Other countries could soon follow.
Bayer-Monsanto have announced that they will not be asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a $20.6 million verdict awarded to former school groundskeeper, Dewayne Lee Johnson, who proved that their glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup causes cancer.
In this interview, Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., discusses the importance and benefits of regenerative agriculture and a future Regeneration International project that we’ll be collaborating on.
OCA readers who are not email subscribers to Organic Bytes, but who are among our 1.2 million followers and friends on Facebook may have noticed that we now, for the first time in 20 years, are being forced to publish two different editions of Organic Bytes, one that is uncensored (for our email subscribers), and one that is censored, for our Facebook readers and social media followers. You can find the uncensored versions of Organic Bytes (including back issues) on our website along with our ongoing comprehensive coverage of COVID-19.
An article on Japan's gene-edited tomato specifically mentions the post-Brexit UK as a possible target for the experimental product. The article also mentions the developer Sanatech Seed's commercialisation plan, which centres on deliberate contamination via free distribution of the seeds to home gardeners in Japan.
Whether you’re excited about new meat alternatives, or you’d rather eat regenerative and organic grass-fed beef, we can all agree on one thing: Fake meat, like all foods made with genetic engineering and synthetic biology, should be safety-tested before we start eating it.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress to press the U.S. Food & Drug Administration to safety test the GMO Impossible Burger!
Finally, we have a groundbreaking opportunity to radically reform pesticide policy in the United States!
If passed, the Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act (PACTPA) would mean a comprehensive overhaul of federal pesticide regulations.
It would put restrictions on pesticide use and registration (including bans on several of the most toxic pesticides such as organophosphates, neonicotinoids and paraquat), and it would create new safety protections for farmworkers.
This legislation is a powerful and transformative opportunity to protect our especially-vulnerable children and farmworkers (as well as all people!), pollinators, and other wildlife from the dangerous effects of toxic pesticides.
TAKE ACTION: Tell Congress: Pass the Protect America's Children from Toxic Pesticides Act!
President Biden’s Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack wants to use $30 billion in tax dollars to create a Carbon Bank where companies that don’t want to stop polluting can buy credits generated from soil carbon sequestration to “offset” their greenhouse gas emissions.
Leave it to “Mr. Monsanto” to give carbon farming a bad name by linking it to a market in hot air! If Vilsack wants to spend $30 billion on climate, he should support regenerative organic agriculture directly, not a false solution in the form of a cap-and-trade corporate ponzi scheme.
Tell Congress: Taxpayers Shouldn’t Pay for Polluters’ Carbon Offsets
GM corn presidential decree comes despite intense pressure from industry, U.S. authorities.
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