This Weekend, Saturday April 25th is the Long Island Food Conference! The 2015 Long Island Food Conference on Saturday, April 25, 2015 at Hofstra University will bring together hundreds of key stakeholders and members of our communities from across Long … Read More
Posts tagged: #GMO
In The News: National Program Continues to Increase Local Foods in Schools, Stop Monsanto?s attack on GMO labeling, Celebrating World Water Day, How Plastic In The Ocean Is Contaminating Your Seafood
National Program Continues to Increase Local Foods in Schools Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced the release of a request for applications for the USDA’s Fiscal Year 2016 round of Farm to School grants. Designed to increase the availability of … Read More
In The News: Long Island Food & Film Feast, Welcome To The Meatrix, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth?How GMOs Took Over the Food Supply, EWG’s “Dirty Dozen” Guide to Food Additives, Food First in Your Neighborhood
Welcome To The Meatrix Here is a great video which tells the story of factory farming by a cow name Moofius and a pig named Leo. Inspired by the Matrix movie series, they tell the story in a compelling way … Read More
In the News: New Wave of GMO Crops Poised for Approval, Despite Public Outcry; WhiteWave Foods Ditches Controversial Ingredient Carrageenan
New GMO Crops Poised for Approval Despite Public Outcry Despite the USDA’s own admission that it will cause an up to seven-fold increase in chemical pesticide use, a new type of genetically engineered seed built to resist one of the … Read More
iEat Green: An Interview with Jeffrey Smith
Hi All, Last week, I had the pleasure of interviewing Jeffrey Smith on my radio show, and together we celebrated the announcement of Vermont’s groundbreaking new GMO labeling law! Yahoo! Vermont is now the first state to require mandatory labeling … Read More
An Interview with Jeffrey Smith, Author of “Seeds of Deception” and producer of the documentary film,”Genetic Roulette”
Hi Everybody, Monday evening was the screening of Gasland 2 at the Cinema Arts Center in Huntington. Eric Weltman, from Food and Water Watch,?was our guest speaker, and he shared with us the work they are doing, along with New … Read More
In the News: GMO Labeling Law Victory in Vermont, ?Liking? a Brand Online Voids the Right to Sue?, ?Extreme Levels? of Monsanto?s Roundup Herbicide Found in Soy Plants
GMO Labeling Law Victory in Vermont Last week, by a vote of 28-2, the Vermont state Senate passed H.112, a bill to require mandatory labeling of GMOs in foods sold in Vermont. The bill also makes it illegal to call … Read More
In the News: The Farm Bill is Defeated, The First Non-GMO Meat Label, EPA Raises Allowable Glyphosate on Crops, Foods We Eat in the U.S. that are Banned in Other Countries, Red Meat Tied to Increased Diabetes Risk
The Farm Bill is Defeated As much as I wanted to see a new, revamped Food/Farm Bill, I must say that I am glad the House version was voted down, since it was so flawed on so many levels. My … Read More