Monsanto pledges $4 million to help save monarch butterflies

Biotech giant Monsanto announced it would spend $4 million on efforts to save the monarch butterfly population after the company’s pesticides have been accused of destroying the insects’ habitat and bringing them to the brink of extinction.

 The St. Louis-based company said Tuesday it would contribute $3.6  million over three years to the National Fish and Wildlife  Foundation's Monarch Butterfly Conservation Fund. Another  $400,000 will go to universities and conservations groups trying  to rescue the species.

Scientists call for ban on editing human genome

While the technique has many benefits, such as curing genetic diseases, it can also be used to enhance qualities like beauty or intelligence – something ethicists believe should not be done.

The biologists are also concerned that the technique is so easy to use that doctors may push ahead with it before it’s clinically safe to do so, they say in a paper on the subject, which was published in the journal Science.

GMO labeling bill to face stiff agribusiness opposition after reintroduction in Congress

A federal bill that would mandate the accurate labeling of genetically-engineered ingredients in food or beverages sold in the US has been revived in Congress, the latest for the popular “right to know” movement that faces formidable corporate opposition.

The Genetically Engineered Food Right-to-Know Act is written to “establish a consistent and enforceable standard for labeling of foods produced using genetic engineering, including fish, thereby providing consumers with knowledge of how their food is produced.”

Democrats Rep. Peter DeFazio and Sens. Barbara Boxer and Richard Blumenthal reintroduced the legislation Thursday.

Monsanto’s Roundup system threatens extinction of monarch butterflies - report

Monsanto’s Roundup Ready system – a potent herbicide combined with genetically-modified seeds that can withstand it – has decimated the monarch butterfly’s only source of food in the Midwest, putting it on the edge of extinction, according to a new study.

Biotechnology conglomerate Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup has become the most common herbicide in American agriculture today, used in tandem with the company’s genetically-engineered Roundup Ready crops.

Since its heavy proliferation began in the 1990s, glyphosate has been a leading killer of 99 percent of milkweed in the Midwest’s corn and soybean fields. Glyphosate-sensitive milkweed plants are the only spots where monarchs lay eggs, as the plant is the only food source for monarch larvae.

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So how do you want your GMO potato: Cancerous or cancer-free?

Florida residents fear millions of GMO mosquitoes will wreak havoc

Monsanto gets approval for new GMO corn, soybeans designed to resist potent new biocide

Monsanto has won final approval from the US for its new genetically-modified soybeans and cotton, designed to withstand a dominant biocide that fights weed resistance built up as a result of the company’s glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide already in use.

The US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced Thursday that the powerful biotechnology corporation’s GMO cotton and soybean plants have been given “non-regulated” status.

The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann http://www.hulu.com/watch/727580 Thom Talks Climate, GMOs and the Constitutionality of Torture

Shahid Buttar, Executive Director-Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the People's Campaign for the Constitution (PCC) spoke with Thom Hartmann about the U.N.'s call for prosecutions for U.S. torture.

CORN: The Secret Ingredient in Everything You Eat

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Republicans back “Natural” GMO foods bill 

US farmers challenging Monsanto patent claims appeal to Supreme Court