Genetically Modified Organism:
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A genetically modified organism (GMO) or genetically engineered organism (GEO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. These techniques, generally known as recombinant DNA technology, use DNA molecules from different sources, which are combined into one molecule to create a new set of genes. This DNA is then transferred into an organism, giving it modified or novel genes. Transgenic organisms, a subset of GMOs, are organisms which have inserted DNA that originated in a different species. . . (Read More>

Genetically Modified Food:
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Genetically modified (GM) foods are foods derived from genetically modified organisms. Genetically modified organisms have had specific changes introduced into their DNA by genetic engineering techniques. These techniques are much more precise than mutagenesis (mutation breeding) where an organism is exposed to radiation or chemicals to create a non-specific but stable change. Other techniques by which humans modify food organisms . . . (Read More)

** ACTION ALERT **

USDA is about to approve

Genetically Engineered Alfalfa

Tell President Obama: “NO GE/GM ALFALFA!”

USDA has completed its environmental review of GE Alfalfa, and is poised to approve (“de-regulate”) its use.

Secretary Vilsack has rejected the option to prohibit the planting (and continuing to regulate) GE Alfalfa, despite the clear recognition in its environmental impact study that that GE contamination of organic and conventionally grown crops presents a huge problem. Alfalfa is a primary feed for organic dairy and livestock production. . . . (Read More)

India, like most countries around the world, is facing an onslaught from the biotechnology industry to introduce genetically modified(GM) crops .The first and only commercially approved GM crop, in India, is Bt cotton, genetically engineered with bacillus thuringiensis (BT), developed by Monsanto, which according to them . . . (Read More)

Disease and low genetic diversity might have caused US bumblebee decline over the past few decades, say scientists . . . (Read More)

The EPA has posted its response to the controversy over a leaked document regarding clothianidin, Bayer's widely used blockbuster pesticide that has come under suspicion as a primary cause of the mass honeybee die-off known as colony collapse . . . (Read More)

The culprit may be a pesticide that the EPA has allowed on the market despite the fact that the company which makes the pesticide has failed to prove it is safe . . . (Read More)