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Lula's Green Light for Monsanto Has Flooded Brazil with GMO Soya & Increased Amazon Deforestation
December 1, 2008 09:53 AM - , Organic Consumers Association

*Lula's government promotes genetically-modified organisms despite social opposition. Brazil is home to one of the world's largest areas of genetically-modified seed cultivations with 15 million hectares in 2007. The greatest increase of these crops occurred under the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, despite growing opposition from Brazilian farmers and environmentalists.

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New Law Requires Labels on Meat - Country-of-Origin Labels to be Required
September 16, 2008 09:44 AM - Stephen J. Hedges, Organic Consumers Association

WASHINGTON - In a few weeks, American shoppers will be able to look at a cut of meat or a pound of hamburger and see something they've never seen before-a label that says where the meat came from.

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SPOTLIGHT

FDA Harasses Dairy Company Employees

Special FDA agents and investigators from the US Food and Drug Administration aggressively interrogated two young female employees of Organic Pastures Dairy Company, the nation's largest raw milk producer, with questions focusing on the dairy's interstate sales of raw colostrum and raw milk for pet food.

COMMENTARY

GM Watch: Michael Pollan and Monsanto CEO at Google on YouTube

Here's a 36-minute video on YouTube featuring an unusual forum with Monsanto CEO Hugh Grant, talking with "In Defense of Food" author Michael Pollan and Google.org's head of global development, Sonal Shah, on the topic of "Creating a World That Can Feed Itself."

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