Food • Zero-Sum

Monsanto drops lawsuit against Mexico’s GM corn ban

In what is being called a significant victory for Mexico, Monsanto has withdrawn its legal challenge against the 2020 presidential decree aimed at banning glyphosate and genetically modified (GM) corn for human consumption.

Organic farming leads to adaptations in plants’ genetic material

Varieties developed specifically for organic farming adapt their genetic makeup to local environmental conditions, making them more robust and able to deliver higher yields over time.

Congress Must Stop Electronic Animal ID Mandate

You may have heard that the last omnibus funding bill included electronic ID, which is unfortunately true … but it still hinges on the USDA rule going into effect. So we can still stop it if Congress takes action in the Farm Bill!

FDA Opens Floodgates to Gen2 Frankenfoods

The agency has released “guidance” to the biotech industry about how to get foods from gene-edited (GE) plants onto your dinner plate, doubling down on bad policies that treat GE foods the same as any other type of food—even though they are anything but. Action Alert!

UK Agency wants to fast-track and greenlight lab-grown meat

In the US where regulations are already more relaxed, only two lab-grown products have so far gone through the approval process and, despite gaining approval, neither is currently available to buy.

Food inflation: Math doesn’t add up, factoring in corporate power

This combination of monopoly power and unregulated activity in financial markets allows agricultural commodity traders, big agribusiness and food companies to make huge profits from food price rises.

Sick to Death: Unhealthy Food and Failed Technologies

Industry narratives have nothing to say about the food system itself, which sees ‘food’ as just another commodity to be rinsed for profit regardless of the impacts on human health or the environment.