Food Safety Now! E-Newsletter
  october 2014

New Experimental GE Wheat Contamination in Montana Puts Wheat Farmers at Risk

 
   

“Once again, USDA and the biotech industry have put farmers and the food supply at risk,” said Andrew Kimbrell, executive director for Center for Food Safety. “Coexistence between GE and non-GE crops is a failed policy that fundamentally cannot work. Genetic contamination is a serious threat to farmers across the country.”

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CFS HEALTHY HOME

TOP 5 PESTICIDE LADEN FRUITS & VEGETABLES
 

Pesticides are everywhere these days, as big agriculture becomes ever bigger. Nonorganic produce is sprayed with toxic, synthetic pesticides designed to kill living organisms. Residue from pesticides remains on all of these fruits and vegetables, but the amount on some produce is worse than others. If you have to choose only a few fruits and vegetables to buy organic, make sure these top 5 worst offenders are on your list.

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Save Our Bees With Moby

Join Moby, the award-winning musician, DJ and activist, as he takes us on a tour of his four-acre property atop the Hollywood Hills to share his special connection with the 30,000 bees that call it home.  We have bees to thank for one out of three bites of food we eat, but they’re dying and need our help.  Here Moby offers simple, concrete actions for how you can reverse this trend and save our bees.

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IN THE NEWS

California Ban on Genetically Engineered Salmon Expands Protections, but Opens a Dangerous Loophole >>>

Study Shows GE Food Labeling Will Not Significantly Raise Food Prices >>>

Escalating the weed wars >>>

New Pollinator Bill Helps Pesticide Industry, Not Bees or Beekeepers >>>

EPA Plan to Slow Superweeds is Remedy in Name only >>>

FEATURED ACTIONS

Stand With Moby To Save Our Bees

Honey bees and other pollinators are essential to a healthy food supply and environment. Right now, bee losses are unsustainable. It is urgent that our regulatory agencies take more aggressive action to prevent further declines of pollinators, and acknowledge the role that pesticides play. Join CFS and Moby in urging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to suspend the use of bee-killing pesticides before it's too late.

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Tell President Obama to stop “Agent Orange” crops and the toxic chemicals they rely on

EPA may announce approval of Dow Chemical’s new “Enlist Duo” herbicide within the next week. “Enlist Duo” is a mixture of glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup) and the even more toxic 2,4-D (part of the chemical mixture Agent Orange). Please take just a few seconds to urge President Obama to stop this toxic herbicide and the genetically engineered crops that depend on it!

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WHAT'S NEW

USDA Approves New GE Corn and Soy, Triggering Onslaught of Millions of Pounds more Pesticides

Center for Food Safety announces it will pursue all available legal options to stop commercialization - Center for Food Safety today condemned the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) decision to fully deregulate Dow Chemical’s 
Enlist corn and soybeans, genetically engineered to withstand repeated spraying of the herbicide 2,4-D. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has yet to approve the accompanying herbicide, which is a blend of 2,4-D and glyphosate.

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How Moby became our BEE man

By Kaiulani Kimbrell, Producer of Center for Food Safety’s Hollywood Food Voices

On numerous occasions, I’ve been struck by how smart, creative, meticulous, spiritual and environmentally conscious Moby is. He’s super fun to hang out with, incredibly funny, a critical thinker, a curious question-asker, a great listener, a vegan, and a brilliant photographer. Oh yeah, he also happens to be a multi-platinum, Grammy nominated musician and DJ, too.

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Debunking Popular Myths about GE Crops Portrayed in the Media

By Debbie Barker, International Programs Director, Center for Food Safety

The recent article, “Seeds of Doubt,” in the August 25, 2014 issue of The New Yorker by Michael Specter echoes common myths about genetically engineered (GE) crops and omits legitimate scientific critiques of the technology. The resulting article fails to deliver the high level of integrity and journalism that is expected of The New Yorker.

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