7/14/16 By MARY CLARE JALONICK Full Article WASHINGTON – Consumers wanting to know if their foods contain genetically modified ingredients will be able to find out for the first time. Congress sent legislation to President Barack Obama on Thursday that would require most food packages to carry a text label, a symbol or an electronic Continue Reading
July 13, 2016 08:50 AM By Bloomberg Full Article Chicken lovers who demand more than the natural, organic, or free-range labels slapped on pretty much everything these days may be happily surprised to find a new product in the supermarket freezer: Applegate Farms has started shipping Non-GMO Project Verified organic chicken nuggets to retailers nationwide. Continue Reading
By Pat Bradley Jul 8, 2016 Full Article and Audio Late Thursday the U.S. Senate approved federal GMO labeling legislation and moved the bill to the House for consideration. In Vermont, where the first-in-the-nation mandatory GMO labeling law went into effect last Friday, advocates say the federal bill caters to the whims of the corporate Continue Reading
By Andrew Amelinckx July 5, 2016 Full Article Katie Spring admits it might have been a crazy idea to start a family and a farm at the same time, but three years later both are doing just fine. Spring’s agricultural adventures began the summer of 2009 when she worked at Calypso Farm and Ecology Center, a Continue Reading
Jul. 7, 2016, 4:30 am by Anne Galloway Full Article The U.S. Senate has eviscerated a Vermont law that would require manufacturers to label genetically modified organisms used in food production. The Senate voted 65 to 32 to end debate and advance a GMO bill that will pre-empt Act 120, a state statute that went Continue Reading
July 6, 2016 By Maddie Monty, NOFA-VT Policy Advisor Full Blog Post Last Friday on the Statehouse lawn, people from all over Vermont gathered to celebrate the effective date of Act 120 – our state’s landmark GMO food labeling law that has, as one headline put it, “brought the food industry to its knees.” The Continue Reading
By Pat Bradley Jun 16, 2016 Full Article & Audio Last June, the legislature passed the Vermont Clean Water Act, requiring voluntary water quality practices become mandatory and more stringent. The Agency of Agriculture filed its final draft on May 16th. Agency of Agriculture Senior Ag Development Coordinator Ryan Patch explains that Act 64 laid Continue Reading
1 July 2016 Last updated at 13:18 BST Jane O’Brien travelled to Vermont to learn more about the GM food fight. Filmed by Colm O’Molloy, edited by Bill McKenna. Produced by Sarah McHaney. Full Article & Video The tiny state of Vermont has taken on the entire US food industry to force many manufacturers to Continue Reading
Vt. leaders herald GMO bill July 02,2016 Full Article MONTPELIER — U.S senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders joined Sen. Patrick Leahy, Rep. Peter Welch, Gov. Peter Shumlin and others celebrated Vermont’s GMO labeling law taking effect Friday. They spoke before a crowd on the State House steps, to honor Vermont as the first in Continue Reading
For immediate release: July 1st 2016 CONTACT: The Vermont Right to Know GMOs Coalition Andrea Stander, Rural Vermont, 802-522-3284 Montpelier VT- On Friday the Vermont Right to Know GMOs coalition joined Governor Shumlin, Senator Leahy, Representative Welch, and supporters from around the country in celebrating Vermont’s first-in-the-nation GMO labeling law taking effect. The celebration took Continue Reading
