Food and Ag Policy in the news
- A Food Manifesto for the Future
February 01, 2011, The New York Times
What we have to say about Food and Ag Policy
Tell the Senate to Protect States' Rights to Label GMOs: Don't Let Monsanto Write the Rules
May 23, 2013Tell Congress to Repeal the Monsanto Protection Act!
May 20, 2013New Study Links GMO Food To Leukemia: GMO BT Cry-Toxins May Contribute to Blood Abnormalities
May 16, 2013Kentucky Hemp Lobby Makes Inroads In Washington
May 09, 2013Tell Connecticut to Label GMOs!
May 07, 2013Stop Oregon's Monsanto Protection Act!
April 29, 2013Peru Bans GMOs for 10 Years: Enacts Law to Protect Nation's Biodiversity and Biosecurity
April 27, 2013AquaBounty CEO says GMO salmon to be approved in 2013
April 25, 2013Del Monte Gets Approval to Import GMO Pineapple
April 16, 2013Monsanto's Hometown Paper Takes Missouri Senator Roy Blunt to Task for Monsanto Protection Act
April 11, 2013Stop the Monsanto Protection Act in Oregon
April 10, 2013You're invited - American Meat makes NYC premiere!
April 09, 2013From Saccharin to GMO Seed, Report Profiles Monsanto’s History Peddling Chemicals for Food, Agriculture, War
April 03, 2013Monsanto Teams up with Congress to Shred the Constitution
March 31, 2013Obama signs 'Monsanto Protection Act', America Mourns
March 28, 2013President Obama, Stop the Monsanto Protection Act
March 26, 2013New Worries for World's Water: GMO Antibiotic Resistant Genes Found in China's Rivers
March 23, 2013Update: Congress Passes Monsanto Protection Act!
March 21, 2013Senate Caves on Monsanto Protect Act, Monsanto Wins!
March 21, 2013Birds, Bees, and Aquatic Life Threatened by Gross Underestimate of Toxicity of World's Most Widely Used Pesticide
March 20, 2013Monarch Migration Plunges to Lowest Level in Decades
March 19, 2013Join Food Democracy Now! and Ben & Jerry at state capital in Hartford today to label GMOs
March 15, 2013Stop the Monsanto Protection Act!
March 13, 2013Whole Foods Promises to Label GMO Ingredients by 2018
March 10, 2013Peanut Corporation of America Executives Indicted
February 28, 2013Global Growth of GM Crops Overblown: ISAAA yearly report misleads
February 25, 2013Supreme Court sympathizes with Monsanto in seed patent case
February 21, 2013GMO Labeling Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress
February 20, 2013India's Rice Revolution: How Sustainable Farmers Are Outproducing Big Biotech and Chemical Agriculture
February 17, 2013Maryland Legislator Introduces Bill That Would Mandate Labeling Genetically Engineered Foods
February 13, 2013Tell Washington to Support I-522 - I want GMO labeling now!
February 13, 2013Bhutan Set to Plow Ahead As World's First Wholly Organic Country
February 12, 2013Tell California - I want GMO labeling now!
February 11, 2013Tell Connecticut to Label GMOs!
February 09, 2013STRIKE OVER! Workers at UNFI Vote to Ratify 5-Year Contract Agreement
February 08, 2013Domestic Fair Trade: A Plea to UNFI and Whole Foods for Justice
February 04, 2013Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops
January 23, 2013And Now a Word from Our Sponsors: Are Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics’ Shilling For Big Food?
January 23, 2013Europe Halts New GMO Crop Approvals Until 2014
January 22, 2013Breaking: Dow Says New Genetically Modified Corn Delayed Until 2014
January 19, 2013Farmers in OSGATA vs Monsanto Tell Obama to Stop GMO Salmon
January 18, 2013Insecticide 'Unacceptable' Danger to Bees, Report Finds
January 17, 2013Farmers Join Hundreds to Protest Outside Monsanto Hearing and Demand End to Monsanto’s Campaign of Intimidation in Rural America Over GMO’s
January 10, 2013Family Farmers Travel to Nation's Capital to Stand Up to Monsanto and Voice Concerns Over GMOs
January 10, 2013Courageous Rancher Vows to Continue Lawsuit Against Beef Checkoff
January 09, 2013Join Farmers vs Monsanto
January 07, 2013Food Writers Who Forget Rural America
January 07, 2013Citizens in India Gain Right to GMO Labeling in 2012: In 2013, Americans Still Denied Basic Right
January 07, 2013Farmers vs Monsanto: Will You March?
January 04, 2013Family Farmers to Travel to Washington, D.C. to Take on Monsanto
January 04, 2013Photographic Adventure Reveals the Frightening Deadness of Genetically Engineered Corn Field
January 03, 2013Genetically Engineered Bacon on Its Way: GMO Pig Development Gets $500,000 from USDA
January 02, 2013Tell Obama to Ban GMO Salmon!
December 28, 2012Forward Together! Prop 37, GMO Labeling and Building the Food Movement
December 23, 2012Family Farmers Return to Court in OSGATA vs Monsanto: Oral Arguent Slated for January 10, 2013
November 24, 2012Food Activists Look to Other States after Failed California Measure
November 07, 2012With Proposition 37 Defeated, Food Movement Vows to Fight On
November 07, 2012Statement from Dave Murphy, Co-Chair of Yes on 37, Founder and Executive Director of Food Democracy Now!, on Prop 37 Defeat
November 07, 2012Front Groups Against Prop 37: Foes of Honest Labeling Pose as Fake Cops and Phony Democrats to Trick Voters
November 04, 2012A Movement Grows Around GMO Labeling From Iowa to California: Will Obama Keep His Promise in a Second Term?
November 02, 201212 Days to Stop Monsanto - Prop 37
October 24, 2012LA City Council unanimously endorses Prop 37, supports labeling GMOs
October 24, 2012Call for GMO Labeling: Prop 37 is up to You!
October 23, 2012Supreme Court of India Panel Recommends Stopping GMO Crop Trials
October 22, 2012Yes on 37 GMO Labeling Heroes and Zeroes
October 21, 2012Don't Let the Pesticide Companies Buy Your Vote!
October 17, 2012Yes on 37 Event - An Evening with the Heroes of Prop 37 - to Label Genetically Enigneered Foods
October 15, 2012The Monsanto Deception
October 05, 2012Did Monsanto Write This Op-Ed Signed by a UC Davis Professor?
October 03, 2012Russia Suspends Use of Genetically Modified Corn
September 24, 2012New GMO Crop Could Cause Liver Failure Scientists Say
September 11, 2012'Mounting Evidence' of Bug-Resistant Corn Seen by EPA
September 05, 2012Delegate’s Demands GMO Labeling at Democratic Convention
September 05, 2012A National Call for Unity - Label GMOs!
September 01, 2012"No trust in farm biotech," India's Parliament Calls for End of GMO Crops, Cites Concerns Over Health and Environment
August 14, 2012Big Pesticide, Processed Food Companies Spend $10 Million to Fight Honest Food Labels
August 13, 2012Nation’s Top Food Makers Opposing Honest Food Labels
August 07, 2012Why a Major Food Organization Is Teaming Up With Monsanto and Friends to Block Your Right to Know What's in Your Food
August 01, 2012Stop Superbugs from Coming to a Plate Near You!
July 11, 2012Stop the Monsanto Protection Act
June 27, 2012Urgent: Senate votes on GMO labeling today
June 21, 2012Update: Senate farm bill Now! - Good, Bad and Ugly
June 20, 2012Urgent: Farm Bill vote only hours away
June 19, 2012Tell your Senator "I Support GMO labeling"!
June 14, 2012Twenty Years Ago Today: Dan Quayle Announces FDA Policy that Denies Americans Right to Know What's in Their Food
May 26, 2012BREAKING: Obama Campaign Stop at Factory Farm Propaganda Site, Billed as “Grassroots Event”
May 24, 201248 Hours to tell Congress to Label GMOs!
March 06, 2012Occupy Iowa Caucus: A Democrat "Uncommitted" in 2012 or Why I Won’t Caucus for Obama a Second Time
January 03, 2012Urban-Rural Solidarity: Farmers March on Wall Street
December 12, 2011Immediate Release: Family Farmers Join Occupy Wall Street Farmers March in Solidarity
December 04, 2011Speakers Update: Today Occupy Wall Street Farmers March - Sunday Dec 4th
December 03, 2011Join the Farmers March on Wall Street - Dec 4th
December 01, 2011Super Committee Fails, Secret Farm Bill Dies Ahead of Thanksgiving
November 23, 2011Corrupt Bargain Reached on Secret Farm Bill: Details to Be Announced
November 18, 2011Breaking: Secret Farm Bill Deal About to be Made
November 17, 2011Update: 24 Hours to Kill the Secert Farm Bill
November 02, 201124 Hours to Kill the "Secret Farm Bill"
October 30, 2011Taxpayer Subsidies Prop Up Junk Food Industry with Billions
September 21, 2011If You Eat, You Better Get GIPSA
September 07, 2011Action: If You Eat, You Better Get GIPSA
September 07, 2011Act Now or Kiss your Organics good-bye!
January 20, 2011Your Voices Were Heard Loud and Clear in DC this Week, Thanks for Standing Up for Family Farmers
December 10, 2010Join us in DC - It's Time to Bust up Big Food!
December 06, 2010