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GMO labeling campaigns raising near-record money

2013-09-25 07:14:50| Chemicals - Topix.net

With more than a month to go until Election Day, opponents of the Washington initiative to require labeling of genetically engineered foods already are climbing into record campaign-fundraising territory.

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Monsanto could get away with GMO contamination

2013-09-16 21:30:28| Chemicals - Topix.net

Washington state agriculture officials confirmed that a farmer's alfalfa crop was contaminated with a genetically modified trait, a "low-level" presence that nonetheless has prevented him from exporting it.

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Scientific American declares it's against GMO labeling

2013-09-07 01:25:34| Chemicals - Topix.net

Protesters in Balboa Park as part of a global series of marches against the Monsanto Co.

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GMO corn failing to protect fields from pest damage: report

2013-08-28 20:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Researchers in the key corn-growing state of Illinois are finding significant damage from rootworms in farm fields planted in a rotation with a genetically modified corn that is supposed to protect the crop from the pests, according to a new report. Evidence gathered from fields in two Illinois counties suggests that pest problems are mounting as the rootworms grow ever more resistant to efforts to fight them, including crop rotation combined with use of the biotech corn, according to the report...

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