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April 16th, 2014

Vermont Makes Huge Advance for your "Right to Know"

Senate Approves Center for Food Safety Backed Legislation to Label Genetically Engineered Foods The Vermont Senate today voted 28-2 to approve legislation that would require foods produced using genet

April 15th, 2014

Federal Court Allows Non-Profit Groups to Defend Kaua'i County on Behalf of Taxpayers

Multinational Corporations Challenging Pesticide Disclosure Law The U.S. District Court of Hawaii today granted a Motion to Intervene jointly presented by Center for Food Safety and Earthjustice on be

April 11th, 2014

Unlabeled GMO Salmon? Groups Call on FDA to Rein In Industry Claims

Food & Water Watch and Center for Food Safety called on FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg today to put an end to erroneous statements by AquaBounty Technologies Vice President, who recently told the p

April 9th, 2014

Industry Hype & Bad Science Undercuts Real Energy/Climate Solutions

Genetically Engineering Poplars for Paper and Biofuels Condemned Biofuelwatch, Center for Food Safety, Global Justice Ecology Project, Canadian Biotechnology Action Network Washington, DC--Scientists

April 9th, 2014

Big Food's "DARK Act" Introduced in Congress

Rep. Pompeo’s GMO Bill Identical to Industry Proposal Legislation introduced today by Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kan.) would block any federal or state action to require labeling of foods made with ge

April 7th, 2014

Monsanto and Pals Spend Half-Million to Try To Swamp County Ballot Measure that Would Protect Family Farmers from Genetically Engineered Crops

“Big Six” Chemical Companies Drop $455,000 in One Day on Ballot Initiative to Restrict GE Crops in Jackson County, Oregon It was revealed last Friday that the “Big Six” chemical companies have recentl

April 3rd, 2014

Koch Industries and Monsanto Team up to End Your Right to Know

Koch-Backed Congressman to Introduce GE Labeling Preemption Bill “An Unholy Alliance between Monsanto and Koch Industries” Apparently it wasn’t an April fool’s joke. Three months after news outlets re

April 3rd, 2014

CFS Backed GE Food Labeling Bill Advances in Vermont

Legislation to require foods produced with genetic engineering be labeled in Vermont, HR 112, passed the Senate Judiciary today 5-0. The bill has already passed the State House and the Senate Agricult

April 2nd, 2014

Obama Administration's Failure to Act on Climate Change Sparks Lawsuit

Council on Environmental Quality's Inaction is UnlawfulLawsuit Filed Just as Latest Climate Report Shows Crisis Worsening Today, Center for Food Safety (CFS) filed a federal lawsuit against the Obama

March 31st, 2014

EPA Orders Withdrawal of Nanotechnology Food Packaging from Market

Major step for consumer protection lauded by Center for Food Safety Center for Food Safety (CFS) today commended Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for ordering Pathway Corporation to stop selli

March 26th, 2014

California Senate Health Committee Passes Bill to Label Genetically Engineered Foods

Committee passage is critical first step in winning statewide GE labeling Today, the California Senate Health Committee passed SB 1381, a bill to require the labeling of genetically engineered foods i

March 25th, 2014

Borlaug Dedication Ignores Human and Environmental Consequences of the Green Revolution

(Washington, DC)—Today, as the U.S. Congress honors Normal Borlaug with a statue in the Capitol, Center for Food Safety (CFS) and its international allies challenge the legacy of the Green Revolution

March 24th, 2014

Lawsuit Launched to Protect Endangered Species From Dangerous New Pesticide

Conservation and food-safety groups filed a formal notice of intent to sue the Environmental Protection Agency today for failing to protect hundreds of endangered fish, butterflies and other species f

March 24th, 2014

New Report: Widely-Used Neonicotinoid Seed Treatments Are Unnecessary in Most Cases

Study Reveals that Costs Outweigh Benefits of Toxic Insecticides Implicated in Bee Kills Center for Food Safety today released a scientific literature review which reveals that neonicotinoid insectici

March 20th, 2014

Half a Million Demand Action from EPA to Save Bees

Over 500,000 signatures delivered to Administrator McCarthy one year after groundbreaking lawsuit brought by beekeepers Today, more than half a million signatures were delivered to Environmental Prote

March 17th, 2014

Coalition of Civil Liberties, Animal, Consumer Groups Head to Court Over Controversial Idaho "Ag Gag" Law

Constitutional Challenge Made to State’s Attempt to Silence Factory Farm Whistle-Blowers Today, a coalition of organizations dedicated to civil liberties, animal protection, food safety, labor rights,

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