CHIPOTLE SAYS NO TO GMO: CHIPOTLE THE FIRST U.S. RESTAURANT TO GET RID OF GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOODS FROM MENUS

Chipotle becomes first U.S. restaurant chain to try and rid menu of GMO foods

Chipotle has begun working to reduce the number of menu items that contain genetically engineered ingredients, including substituting non-GMO sunflower oil for the soybean oil it has used to fry its tortilla chips.

MONSANTO DEFEAT: MAINE PASSED A BILL TO REQUIRE LABELING OF FOOD MADE FROM GMO OR GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISM

By David Knowles / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

 

 

Early morning sunlight bathes the State House in Augusta, Maine, where legislators handily approved a bill to require labeling of food made from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

Handing genetically engineered seed giant Monsanto Co. another legislative defeat, the Maine Legislature has passed a bill requiring the labeling of foods made from genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

FRANKENSTEIN DIET: PIGS FED WITH GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD DEVELOP INFLAMED STOMACHS AND HEAVIER UTERUSES

GM diet ‘can lead to disease in pigs’: Animals develop inflamed stomachs and other conditions when fed with ‘Frankenstein foods‘

• Research significant because pigs organs are similar to humans
• U.S. trial found GM-fed female pigs had on average a 25 per cent heavier uterus than non-GM-fed females, which is a possible indicator of disease
• Environment Minister has dismissed GM scepticism as ‘complete nonsense’

By Sean Poulter, Consumer Affairs Editor