Mar. 25, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Archer / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Spring is in the air, and as we plant our vegetable gardens and enjoy the blossoming flowers, it’s easy to forget the small creatures that keep many of our spring favorites alive and are essential to our food supply: bees. One out of every ...
Read More »Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods, Marsh among stores that will reject GE fish WASHINGTON, D.C. -- A coalition of consumer, health, food safety and fishing groups today launched the “Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood&...
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Mar. 20, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Friends of the Earth is excited to announce our new campaign to prevent genetically engineered fish from hitting our dinner plates: the Campaign for Genetically Engineered (GE)-Free Seafood. As we recently reported, the U.S. Food & Drug Administr...
Read More »Mar. 5, 2013 / Posted by: Lisa Matthes / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, Friends of the Earth U.S. and Australia revealed new testing results from the Australian Government’s National Measurement Institute, which found that many popular sunscreen and cosmetic products are using a potent...
Read More »Mar. 5, 2013 / Posted by: Ian Illuminato / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Friends of the Earth has released new testing results from the Australian Government’s National Measurement Institute , which has found that many popular sunscreen and cosmetic products are using potentially hazardous forms of a common ingre...
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Feb. 18, 2013 / Posted by: Jeff Conant and Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Climate and Energy, Food and Technology, Oceans and Forests
When our friends at Global Forest Coalition asked us to write an article examining the links between the synthetic biology industry and trends in the forest sector, we were happy to put together the following article, a version of which has just r...
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Feb. 5, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Tonight, Dan Rather Reports will run an hour-long special on synthetic biology. Friends of the Earth has been leading the charge for the proper oversight of this emerging technology and was interviewed for this investigative piece and we highlight...
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Jan. 10, 2013 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Advocacy, Blog, Food and Technology
Right before the holidays, while most of us were spending time with our families and friends, the Food and Drug Administration was busy giving the biotechnology industry a big, fat, genetically engineered gift. On December 21, the FDA quietly rele...
Read More »Dec. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Adam Russell / Categories: Food and Technology, News Releases
Today, the Food and Drug Administration released its final environmental assessment on the so-called “frankenfish,” a salmon that has been genetically engineered by Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies Inc.
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Nov. 15, 2012 / Posted by: Eric Hoffman / Categories: Blog, Food and Technology
Election night was a big night for progressive communities across the country. President Obama was re-elected, of course, and he finally called for action on climate change in his victory speech (which he has unfortunately already started to waffl...
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