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Maine newspapers support LD 718

Bangor Daily News: Give consumers a choice and label genetically modified foods

"LD 718, sponsored by Rep. Lance Harvell, R-Farmington, and co-sponsored by 123 Republicans, Democrats and independents, would require that foods containing genetically modified organisms be labeled as such. It should pass." Read the full editorial

 

Portland Press Herald: Legislature should pass GMO labeling bill

"Consumers have a right to know whether their food has genetically engineered ingredients. Free markets work best when consumers have what they need to make informed choices. That is the concept behind L.D. 718, the genetically modified organism labeling bill now before the Legislature. That is also the reason that lawmakers should pass this law this year." Read the full editorial


Organic and Sustainable Agriculture News
Delectable food-politics books of '08: Vandana Shiva's Soil Not Oil
Grist - 12/24/2008.
A number of worthy food-politics books emerged this year, and over the next week I'll be posting reviews of the year's top ten. Today's is Vandana Shiva's Soil Not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis.
Is a new food policy on Obama’s list?
New York Times - 12/24/2008.
From the moment it was clear that Barack Obama was going to be president, people who have dedicated their lives to changing how America eats thought they had found their St. Nicholas. It wasn’t long before the letters to Santa began piling up.
Fresh eggs, finances and fun: families flock to keep hens
The Guardian [UK] - 12/24/2008.
Urban henkeeping is on the rise, fuelled by the economic downturn and pressure on family budgets. It was a farm holiday in Wales that persuaded Vicki Gilmore from Edinburgh that it might be a good idea to keep her own hens. She bought three, named them Maisie, Milly, and Molly, and set up a coop in her garden.
Study finds GM corn disturbs immune system of mice
Organic Consumers - 12/24/2008.
Italy's National Institute of Research on Food and Nutrition recently published a report online in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry documenting significant disturbances in the immune system of young and old mice that have been fed the genetically modified corn MON 810.
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