Vermont Becomes First State To Require GMO Labeling

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/08/vermont-gmo-labeling_n_5290485.html

In addition to the questions about the safety of eating GMO foods there is the problem with the seeds. Monsanto is patenting seeds and basically taking over control of the planet's food supply. What could possibly go wrong?

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130513/12113523062/monsanto-wins-case-seed-patents-planting-your-own-legally-purchased-grown-seeds-can-be-infringing.shtml

There are a few ways to fight Monsanto:

Divest any Monsanto stock.
Boycott their products and the products of their customers.
Sign petitions.
Write to the FDA, newspapers, and blogs. Post on FB.
Mount multiple state initiatives...one state alone stands no chance.

Monsanto has threatened to sue Vermont.

Good... they can either produce a good product or be forced to. I see much better stuff in grocery stores lately.

I should start getting produce from a farm coop soon... and have expanded my garden this year. Good food is important.

http://www.nationofchange.org/breaking-vermont-officially-passes-gmo-lableing-bill-monsanto-announces-lawsuit-1399733156

http://www.ibtimes.com/colony-collapse-disorder-highly-likely-caused-insecticides-harsh-winters-increase-honey-1582734

Researchers have again linked the unexplained decline in honey-bee populations worldwide,a phenomenon known as colony-collapse disorder (CCD),to a certain class of insecticides called neonicotinoids. Furthermore, new research found that colder winters have aggravated the condition.

In a study released Friday in the Bulletin of Insectology,scientists from Harvard University revealed that exposure to two neonicotinoids,the most widely used class of insecticides in the world,was responsible for half of the colonies they studied dying.

"We demonstrated again in this study that neonicotinoids are highly likely to be responsible for triggering [colony-collapse disorder] in honey-bee hives that were healthy prior to the arrival of winter," Chensheng Lu,an associate professor of environmental exposure biology at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author of the study,said in a statement.

The new study builds on the university’s previous work that discovered a link between just one kind of neonicotinoid,imidacloprid,and colony collapse disorder. This time around,researchers focused on imidacloprid as well as clothianidin and found that both chemicals had the same effect on honey bees –causing them to abandon their hives in winter and die.

Somehow I know they will get around it. They will just change the names of stuff to confuse people. They already do that.  

genetics is fascinating but the results of all this genetic manipulation could be a real apocalypse.