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GM Mosquitoes May Be Responsible For Zika Virus Outbreak

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GM Mosquitoes May Be Responsible For Zika Virus Outbreak

A batch of GM mosquitoes released in Brazil earlier in 2015 completely decimated the local mosquito population, and may be responsible for...

Putin declares Russia will be free from GMO, Vaccinations and Pharma drugs

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, Putin, Russia 8:02 PM

Putin declares Russia will be free from GMO, Vaccinations and Pharma drugs

Putin: Human Evolution Under Threat By Big Pharma, GMO, Vaccines The Western government-controlled people are an "intensively vaccinat...

14 Reasons To Never Drink Mountain Dew Again

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, Mountain Dew 11:48 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) Dental Health ConcernsWhat’s My Beef With Mountain Dew<br><br>Mountain Dew was invented in Tennessee and later sold to <a href="http://eatlocalgrown.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14153:sun-chips-gmo&catid=35:articles&Itemid=148">Pepsi-Cola</a> in 1964.<br><br>Central Appalachia is an area known for horrendous dental issues. This region owes its fame to Mountain Dew primarily, <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=34630447&msgid=549975&act=SBC0&c=654419&destination=http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6863173#.T5gcU9WumnA">according to dentists</a>. A condition known as Mountain Dew Mouth is rampant in this part of the country.  Parents are putting the Dew in baby bottles for their young’uns and teenagers have pulled their own teeth with pliers because of tooth pain.<br><br>“It’s a stereotype rooted in a terrible fact. Central Appalachia is 
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=6863173#.T57bVsWumnB">No. 1 in the nation in toothlessness</a>.”<br></span><img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/DewFlavorsinCooler.jpg"></div>

14 Reasons To Never Drink Mountain Dew Again

1) Dental Health ConcernsWhat’s My Beef With Mountain Dew Mountain Dew was invented in Tennessee and later sold to Pepsi-Cola in 1964. C...

Hillary Tells Biotech Indus. to Change Marketing of GMO, not Product: Americans will then Want GMO

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, Hillary Clinton 4:52 PM

Hillary Tells Biotech Indus. to Change Marketing of GMO, not Product: Americans will then Want GMO

Citing a “big gap between the facts and what the impressions are,” Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton gave a ringing endorse...

China to investigate illegal domestic GMO crops

TheWake UpCall 0 China, GMO 8:42 PM

China to investigate illegal domestic GMO crops

China will launch a nation-wide investigation over the suspected illegal cultivation of genetically-modified (GMO) crops, the agriculture m...

Gwyneth Paltrow Is Starting a GMO Food Fight With Congress

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, Gwyneth Paltrow 2:37 PM

Gwyneth Paltrow Is Starting a GMO Food Fight With Congress

Gwyneth Paltrow wants Congress to put a label on it—genetically modified food, that is. The Academy Award winner and her mother, the actor ...

Gwyneth Paltrow Is Joining a Congressional Food Fight Over GMO Labeling

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, Gwyneth Paltrow 1:32 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Actresses <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/actresses/gwyneth-paltrow.htm">Gwyneth Paltrow</a> and her mother, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/entertainment/actresses/blythe-danner.htm">Blythe Danner</a>, took to <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/topics/news/us/capitol-hill.htm">Capitol Hill</a> today to campaign against a bill that would prevent states from passing individual GMO-labeling laws.<br><br>Paltrow, who also runs lifestyle blog GOOP and has written cookbooks, said she was adding her voice to the bill’s opposition because she is a concerned mother, not an expert.</span><div>
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Gwyneth Paltrow Is Joining a Congressional Food Fight Over GMO Labeling

Actresses Gwyneth Paltrow and her mother, Blythe Danner , took to Capitol Hill today to campaign against a bill that would prevent states...

House Passes Bill to Ban GMO Labeling Laws

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, White House 3:50 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On July 23, 2015, the US House of Representatives passed HR 1599,<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/08/04/hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws.aspx?x_cid=20150804_lead_hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws_facebookdoc#_edn1">1</a>ironically misnamed "The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act"<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/08/04/hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws.aspx?x_cid=20150804_lead_hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws_facebookdoc#_edn2">2</a>,<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/08/04/hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws.aspx?x_cid=20150804_lead_hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws_facebookdoc#_edn3">3</a>,<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/08/04/hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws.aspx?x_cid=20150804_lead_hr-1599-bans-gmo-labeling-laws_facebookdoc#_edn4">4</a> more commonly referred to as the "Deny Americans the Right to Know" or DARK Act.<br><br>Despite heavy opposition, the measure was approved 275-150.<br><br>The <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2015/05/11/gmo-labeling-pompeo-bill.aspx">“DARK” Act</a> (HR 1599) specifically preempts states’ rights to create their own <a href="http://www.mercola.com/ebook/gmo-foods.aspx">GMO food</a> labeling laws and, if passed by the Senate, will effectively block<a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/05/06/vermont-gmo-labeling-bill.aspx">Vermont’s GMO labeling law</a>, set to take effect in 2016.</span><div>
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House Passes Bill to Ban GMO Labeling Laws

On July 23, 2015, the US House of Representatives passed HR 1599, 1 ironically misnamed "The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act"...

McDonald’s to Close 700 Locations This Year

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, McDonald’s 3:03 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fast food giant McDonald’s has recently seen business plummet. Factors such as consumer awareness and healthier alternatives led to a 2.3% decrease in sales and a 28% drop in operating profits during the first three months of 2015. Projected sales for April aren’t expected to be much better.</span><div>
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McDonald’s to Close 700 Locations This Year

Fast food giant McDonald’s has recently seen business plummet. Factors such as consumer awareness and healthier alternatives led to a 2.3% ...

Legislators make push to label genetically modified foods

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO 1:29 PM

Legislators make push to label genetically modified foods

State Rep. Dennis Canario has become a leader in the Rhode Island General Assembly on the push to have food producers clearly label foods t...

MONSANTO CREATES FIRST GENETICALLY MODIFIED STRAIN OF MARIJUANA

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, Marijuana, Monsanto 2:23 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Monsanto, the multi-billion agribusiness giant, has announced today it has patented the first genetically modified strain of marijuana. </span><div>

MONSANTO CREATES FIRST GENETICALLY MODIFIED STRAIN OF MARIJUANA

Monsanto, the multi-billion agribusiness giant, has announced today it has patented the first genetically modified strain of marijuana. ...

Policy or perception? Companies reject newly-approved GMO produce

milevski 0 GMO 7:55 PM

<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Genetically modified non-browning apples and more durable potatoes will soon be available in your local grocery store, but some major food producers and already turning their back on the so-called Franken foods.<br><br>Health Canada has approved two varieties of Arctic apples from B.C.’s Okanagan Specialty Fruits, and the Food and Drug Administration just approved six potatoes varieties form the Boise, Idaho-based J. R. Simplot Co. </span><div>
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Policy or perception? Companies reject newly-approved GMO produce

Genetically modified non-browning apples and more durable potatoes will soon be available in your local grocery store, but some major food p...

Farmers Shut Down Motorways, Demanding Land Rights and a Ban on GMOs

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers, GMO, Poland 10:22 AM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Small farmers, fed up with being sold out to foreign interests, are fighting back against GMOs and other excessive regulations in new and creative ways across the world.<br><br>Genetically modified organisms have been foisted upon countries ranging from Haiti to Iraq and everywhere in between, and now farmers in one particular agriculturally rich country in Europe are taking to the streets to make sure it doesn’t happen to them.<br><br>In this case, thousands of small farmers have closed roads and have begun picketing government offices in over dozens of locations, setting the stage for a showdown with the powers-that-be over food and farming freedom.</span><div>
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Farmers Shut Down Motorways, Demanding Land Rights and a Ban on GMOs

Small farmers, fed up with being sold out to foreign interests, are fighting back against GMOs and other excessive regulations in new and c...

Study Links GMO to Over 22 Different Diseases

TheWake UpCall 0 diseases, GMO 10:22 AM

Study Links GMO to Over 22 Different Diseases

Yet More Evidence GMO Should be Banned A new study released in September of this year gives even more evidence that GMOs should have been b...

Monsanto Earnings Fall 34% as Farmers Reject GMO Crops

TheWake UpCall 0 Farmers, GMO, Monsanto 4:26 PM

Monsanto Earnings Fall 34% as Farmers Reject GMO Crops

The biotech giant Monsanto, which is responsible for genetically modifying much of the nation’s and world’s crops, announced that its earni...

Hillary Clinton Says She Supports GMO

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The darling of the Democratic Party, Hillary Rodham Clinton, says she supports genetically modified food, making her no different from most other American politicians from both major political parties.<br><br>In a recent speech before the world’s largest biotechnology meeting in San Diego, Clinton — who commands speaking fees of about $225,000 per speech — was enthusiastic in her support for the use of GMOs in farming and agriculture in general. She also spoke positively of using taxpayer-funded federal financial subsidies as payoffs to American companies, to keep them from relocating outside the United States.<br><br>According to the Guardian Liberty Voice:<br><br>She also declared her desire to get industry representatives around a table to have an “intensive discussion” about “how the federal government could help biotechs with insurance against [financial] risk.”<br><br>That’s code for getting taxpayers to foot the bill for any bad investments biotech companies would make, just like the TARP bailout and the bailout of American car manufacturers.<br><br>Anti-GMO forces have their work cut out for them, with potential presidential contenders vowing support for the biotechs who make them and for the growth of the industry overall; last year, the industry grew globally by 11 percent, raking in revenues of $262 billion.<br><br><a href="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Hillary-Clinton-Biopic-Rodham.jpg"><img height="441" src="http://worldtruth.tv/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Hillary-Clinton-Biopic-Rodham.jpg" width="640"></a></span></div>

Hillary Clinton Says She Supports GMO

The darling of the Democratic Party, Hillary Rodham Clinton, says she supports genetically modified food, making her no different from most...

How to Know if You’re Buying the New GMO Potato

TheWake UpCall 1 GMO 12:48 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There has been talk for years <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/107/41/17533" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">over the development of</a> a new genetically modified potato. Now, the USDA recently gave the green light for one of the worlds largest agribusinesses <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/us-approves-first-genetically-modified-potato-planting/" rel="nofollow" style="border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to create a GMO potato</a> that produces few carcinogens when fried. Simplot, the company responsible for its future creation, will soon be putting these GMO potatoes on dinner plates across the United States unless the decision is reversed. So how will you know if your potato is genetically modified or not?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned, Simplot’s GM creation will be engineered to produce less of a carcinogen (75% less) which normally forms when potatoes are fried or heated. But that isn’t all these ‘super potatoes’ will be able to do. They will also be modified to bruise less easily and to not turn brown for many hours after being cut (see picture below).</span></div>

How to Know if You’re Buying the New GMO Potato

There has been talk for years over the development of a new genetically modified potato. Now, the USDA recently gave the green light fo...

Americans Are Too Stupid For GMO Labeling, Congressional Panel Says

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO 1:13 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> It’s pretty rare that members of Congress and all the witnesses they’ve called will declare out loud that Americans are just too ignorant to be given a piece of information, but that was a key conclusion of a session of the House Agriculture Committee this week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The issue was genetically modified organisms, or GMOs as they’re often known in the food industry. And members of the subcommittee on Horticulture, Research, Biotechnology, and Foreign Agriculture, as well as their four experts, agreed that the genetic engineering of food crops has been a thorough success responsible for feeding the hungry, improving nutrition and reducing the use of pesticides.</span></div>
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Americans Are Too Stupid For GMO Labeling, Congressional Panel Says

It’s pretty rare that members of Congress and all the witnesses they’ve called will declare out loud that Americans are just too ignorant...

Nestlé Removes GMO Ingredients from Baby Foods in South Africa, Not USA

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO, South Africa, US 4:06 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why has <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Nestlé</strong>, who owns a baby-formula producing company called Gerber, <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">removed GMOs (genetically modified organisms) from baby foods and formulas in South Africa and not in the United States?</strong> Perhaps because South African parents are more vocal than Americans. Or it might also be because corporations conducting business in the U.S. are protected by government agencies who don’t seem to give a hoot about public health – not even of our most fragile citizens. <strong style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Maybe it’s time we speak out for the sake of children’s health.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Nestlé has <a href="http://sustainablepulse.com/2013/05/12/nestle-folds-to-consumer-pressure-over-gmos-in-south-africa/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">gone on record</a> stating:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> . . it took consumer preferences into consideration and therefore all its infant cereals in South Africa used non-GM maize,”</em> <a href="http://www.gmwatch.org/index.php/bills-test/14993-victory-against-nestle-but-take-action" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">according to</a> GMWatch.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Now, Nestlé’s infant formulas and cereals, at least in South Africa, seem to indicate that Nestle is going GM free.Last year, the African Center for Biosafety (ACB) <a href="http://www.acbio.org.za/index.php/media/64-media-releases/427" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">found that</a> Nestle’s Cerelac Honey contained 77.65% GM Maize. The same group also conducted independent and accredited lab tests on 7 baby formulas and cereals, finding that ‘Purity’ brands contained extremely high levels of GMOs. It seems they are anything but ‘pure.’</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, Europe and other countries report that Nestlé does not use GMO in their baby products – and the U.S. versions still contain them in high quantities, even though <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/nestlegerber-wont-listen-boycott-company-puts-gmo-bt-toxins-baby-food/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Purity brands has now gone GMO-free</a>.</span></div>
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Nestlé Removes GMO Ingredients from Baby Foods in South Africa, Not USA

Why has Nestlé , who owns a baby-formula producing company called Gerber, removed GMOs (genetically modified organisms) from baby foods ...

Can We Trust Big Food Brands Even if They’re Going GMO-Free?

TheWake UpCall 0 GMO 1:22 PM

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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the latest efforts to revive flat sales, big food brands are doing the almost unthinkable: they’re dropping genetically modified ingredients from their products.</span><div>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br>Ben & Jerry’s recently made the announcement that it was transitioning to non-GMO ingredients; General Mills’ and Post kicked off 2014 with similar announcements for their top selling cereal brands, Cheerios and Grape-Nuts. Walmart and Target have both boosted representation of organic foods in their stores, hoping the higher ticket items will be embraced by current customers and even draw in the dedicated organic shopper.</span></div>
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Can We Trust Big Food Brands Even if They’re Going GMO-Free?

In the latest efforts to revive flat sales, big food brands are doing the almost unthinkable: they’re dropping genetically modified ingredi...

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