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Monsanto

Monsanto pulls plug on GM in Europe

25/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  1 Comment

How satisfactory!  Monsanto are giving up on attempts to persuade Europeans to grow their GM crops. Opposition has been fierce - not, sadly, in the UK where the government, currently in the person of our Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Owen Paterson, …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, Food, Food/Health PolicyTag: Benoit Battistello, genetically modified food, GM crops, Monsanto, Monsanto MON810, NoPatentsOnSeeds, Owen Paterson, patents on vegetables and fruits, Syngenta

The GM debate rages anew – so get involved!

08/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  4 Comments

There were some serious ripples of green discontent back in May when all of the major supermarkets declared that it had become too difficult for them to source chickens and eggs that had guaranteeably been fed on non-GM feeds as these foods were now too hard to get – even though …

Category: Big Business, Environmental Issues, Food, Food/Health Policy, PoliticsTag: Andy Clarke at asda, Anthony Kleanthous, Brazil as a producer of animal feeds, Brazil as a producer on non-GM animal feeds, Dalton Philips at Morrisons, Earth Open source, Environment secretary Owen Patterson, Genetic modification, GM, GM corn, GM crops, GM foods, GMO Myths and Truths, Green futures Magazine, Institute for Responsible Technology, Jamie Doward, Justin King at Sainsbury's, labeling of GM foods, Marc Bolland at M&S, Monsanto, neonicotinoids, Philip clarke at Tesco, Steve Murrells at teh Coop, Supermarket customer service, The Grocer magazine, The Observer, US GM giants

Fancy ‘Buycott’ing your least favourite foods?

04/07/2013 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  Leave a Comment

John Scott just alerted me to this piece on the Natural Society site: 'A new free app called ‘Buycott’ allows you to use your Android or iPhone to analyse products and determine if you’re supporting Monsanto’s GMOs, Big Food companies who are damaging your health, or simply …

Category: Food, Food/Health PolicyTag: Buycott, GMOs, Koch Brothers, Monsanto, Natural Society, traceability in food, tracing GMOs in food

Supermarkets and moral fibre…

21/03/2012 //  by Michelle Berridale Johnson//  2 Comments

A couple of days ago I received an incandescent-with-fury email berating Sainsbury's and Waitrose for stocking Belvedere Broccoli, a conventionally bred, non-GMO broccoli devloped by the Great Evil One, Monsanto. Now I hold absolutely no brief for Monsanto – I think they …

Category: Environmental Issues, Food, Food/Health PolicyTag: Belvedere broccoli, customer complaints, customer feedback, ethical sourcing, Monsanto, multinational capitalism, Sainsbury's, Waitrose

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