(Organic Slant) The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant was moving tons of highly radioactive water from a temporary storage tank to another after detecting signs of leakage. Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) detected the leak earlier in the week, when radiation levels spiked in water samples collected in between the inner linings of the […]
Archives for April 2013
Oregon to ban GM salmon and mandate GMO labeling
(Organic Slant) The state of Oregon recently introduced a trio of legislative bills that would require all genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) be properly labeled, as well as prohibit the import and sale of GM salmon, the first transgenic animal to ever be preliminarily approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for human consumption. H.B. 2175, whose […]
Obama Breaks GMO Food Label Promise
President Barack Obama has signed H.R. 933, which contained the Monsanto Protection Act, into law. President Obama failed to live up to his promise to protect the American people and label GMO’s. Hidden inside a short-term congressional resolution that averts a government shutdown is an alarming rider that protects genetically modified seeds from lawsuits in […]