Amanda Zaluckyj
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Viewpoint: Use Amazon Smile to support real charities—not Non-GMO Project’s fearmongering
Many people will turn to the Internet this year for holiday shopping, with Amazon being a popular choice. Savvy shoppers ...
Viewpoint: Conventional farmers take better care of soil health than media portrays
[Editor’s Note: Amanda Zaluckyj is a practicing attorney and farmer's daughter who shares her family's story at The Farmer's Daughter ...
Opinion: Celebrities, environmental activist groups should stop shaming parents into avoiding GMOs
The Environmental Media Association has teamed up with the organic dairy farm Clover Sonoma to celebrate Dairy Month in an ...
5 ‘game changer’ technologies improving modern agriculture
1. GPS technology GPS may be the biggest game changer in agriculture. While things like autosteer have made driving the ...
Bombing of Monsanto’s Italian research facility highlights how anti-GMO rhetoric inspires terrorists
Based on the reports, an individual threw Molotov cocktails at a Monsanto research facility in Italy over the Easter Weekend, the ...
‘Don’t bite the hand that feeds you’: Cargill’s partnership with Non-GMO Project irks farmers
[Editor's note: Read the GLP's profile of the Non-GMO Project here.] Careful what you tweet…especially if you’re a company kicking ...
‘Save the Bees?’ General Mills campaign perpetuates myths about GMOs, pesticides
Watch out – Buzz, the iconic mascot for General Mills’ Honey Nut Cheerios, is going to be missing in action ...
With school budgets tight, New York state PTA proposes spending more for non-GMO food
...[T]he New York PTA has released its Proposed Resolutions for 2016. ...[including] a proposal aimed at taking any genetically engineered foods, or ...
US should follow Canada in cracking down on non-GMO label when no GMO version exists
. . . [M]ore and more companies are slapping non-GMO labels onto products for which there is no GMO equivalent ...
Bad karma hits leading anti-GMO companies–Whole Foods, Clif Bar, Chipotle?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. [T]here are three companies ...
Is GMO labeling a scare tactic?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. To be considered organic, ...
Organic advocacy group calls Ag Secretary Vilsack’s call for national labeling bill “fear mongering”
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Organic Consumers Association ...
Why farmers buy (OMG!) GMO seeds from (WTF) ‘evil’ corporations
Each spring, farmers get to choose which seeds to buy. No, they are not trapped into buying genetically modified seeds ...
Food industry, NaturalNews on Santa’s ‘naughty list’ for bumbling GMO issues
'Tis the season! Just in time for holiday merrymaking, Santa has given me a sneak peak of his 2014 Naughty ...
Why Chobani reversed course, making yoghurt only from milk from cows not fed GMO grain
At the beginning of the year, I reported that Whole Foods had stopped selling Chobani yogurt over a spat the grocery store ...
Consumer Reports challenged for spreading misinformation on GMO labeling campaigns
Consumer Reports is widely known as a respectable organization that reviews and tests products on behalf of consumers. It is ...
Claim that most countries other than US ban GMOs myth debunked
Have you heard the line about GMOs being banned in all other countries? It's the old argument that if every ...
China’s economic reasons for rejecting GM corn
Back in the beginning of December, China blocked 5 shipments of corn from entering the country. The General Administration of ...
Unpublished study showing GMOs cause sterility in hamsters touted by anti-GMO acitivists
A Russian study claiming that hamsters who consume genetically modified soybeans give birth to sterile offspring should not be taken ...
