Organic Trade Association
Senate Ag. Committee agrees on GMO labeling bill that would pre-empt VT law
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A landmark Senate agreement ...
Bipartisan Senate GMO labeling agreement under attack from activists
A bipartisan compromise on GMO labeling has been reached in the Senate. But the bill is still far from being ...
Study finds dramatic local economic benefits to organic agriculture, surprising researchers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In a report produced ...
Should journalists accept fellowships from Organic Trade Association, Monsanto?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Can journalists be impartial ...
Organic farming groups at odds over compost contaminated with pesticides
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A rift has developed ...
Michigan Sen Stabenow opposes SmartLabel bill after fundraiser with Big Organic
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Four organic-food industry executives ...
New England Journal of Medicine ignored Chuck Benbrook’s failure to disclose organic conflicts of interests
The New England Journal of Medicine has a long history and important place in the sphere of American medical practice ...
FOIA emails reveal anti-GMO, pro-organic spin ‘A team’ led by Tom Philpott and Michael Pollan
A trove of new emails tied to former professor Charles Benbrook shines an ethically harsh light on the journalistic ethics ...
FOIA: Organic industry, Chuck Benbrook orchestrated anti-GMO “independent” research, marketing
FOIA released emails show that the former university professor whose research is the lynchpin of the anti-GMOs industry's public case ...
Claim GMO labeling opponents outspend pro-labeling groups 50 to 1
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As organic moves into ordinary grocery stores will it lose elite, trendy cachet?
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Does the organic led anti-GMO campaign have race-related undertones?
The most visible symbol of the US organic movement calls the American food system "apartheid, food slavery and [a] food ...
Charles Benbrook funded by Big Organic to publish on issues central to their anti-GMO market strategy
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [Editor’s Note: For more ...
Yale professor dissects flawed anti-GMO commentary in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A recent commentary published ...
“Big Food” (Goliath) lobbies and “Good Food” (David) doesn’t? Don’t believe the propaganda
Food politics rage in Washington over who spends more on lobbying: Big Food or Big Organics. Here's the skinny on ...
Organic food recalls due to bacterial contamination soaring
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. New data collected by Stericycle, ...
Organic not healthier than other foods: Organic junk food still junk
Demand for organic foods keeping growing, and big box retailers and mainstream grocery chains, from Walmart to Costco, have jumped ...
With organic sales booming, proponents aim to recruit more farmers to reduce reliance on foreign imports
While consumer demand for organic is booming, the supply of organic ingredients and agricultural products, particularly grains and animal feed, ...
Growing demand for organic corn forces US to import
A growing demand for organics, and the near-total reliance by U.S. farmers on genetically modified corn and soybeans, is driving ...
‘Neonics not key driver of bee deaths’–USDA study clashes with White House considering restrictions on pesticide
Even as a special White House created task force is poised any day now to address concerns over supposedly vanishing ...
USDA study concludes neonics not driving bee deaths—As White House set to announce pollinator revival plan’
Neonicotinoids have been in the crosshairs of advocacy groups desperate to do something--anything--to address the crisis of bee die offs ...
Bee experts shred ‘Harvard’ neonics-Colony Collapse Disorder study, upbraid journalists for ‘activist science’
North America's most prominent bee experts challenge a well-publicized 'Harvard study' that blamed neonicotinoids for bee deaths and Colony Collapse ...
Bee deaths and neonics: Inside story of Colony Collapse Disorder, Harvard’s Chensheng Lu’s crusade
Two "Harvard studies" by nutritionist Chensheng Lu are the linchpin of the claim that we face a global bee collapse ...
Wal-Mart moves to cash in on organic suspicion of GMOs, conventional foods
Sales of organic food are booming again. The growth in sales of organic products in the U.S., food and nonfood, ...
Parents seeking non-GMO foods driving organic sales
Parents' desires to avoid genetically modified organisms (GMO) are partially driving the increased sales of organic products, according to a ...
Consumers willing to pay premium for organics, but benefits mostly psychological
Consumers buying organic food based on a certified label believe they are getting a product guaranteed to be healthier or ...
Oregon organic farmers say cross-pollination could endanger their niche crops
Twenty years after the first commercial varieties of genetically modified foods went on sale, farmers have embraced biotech crops that ...
