By: Ellen Brown, 12/26/2013

Global food control has nearly been achieved, by reducing seed diversity with GMO (genetically modified) seeds that are distributed by only a few transnational corporations. But this agenda has been implemented at grave cost to our health; and if the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) passes, control over not just our food but our health, our environment and our financial system will be in the hands of transnational corporations.

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By: Jonathan Landsman, 12/19/2013

(NaturalNews) Food allergies have become a global epidemic and conventional medicine has no cure. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control, food allergies (in kids) have increased by 50% between 1997 and 2011. Could this have anything to do with genetically engineered foods?

Since the 1990s, when genetically modified (GM) foods were approved, we have seen a dramatic increase in food allergies, asthma, ADHD and many forms of cancer. As expected, most corporately-controlled, government health 'experts' would say genetically modified (GM) foods are 'safe' - but where are the safety studies to back up this unscientific claim of safety? (there are none)

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(http://althealthworks.com)Earthbound Farm, a massive, industrial-scale organic produce corporation, has been bought out by the WhiteWave Foods Company. WhiteWave produces Silk soy milk and until recently was owned by Dean Foods, Inc., which has fiercely opposed GMO-labeling campaigns and was involved in changing Silk from an organic product into a "natural" one that used genetically modified soy beans. Although WhiteWave has enrolled all of its Silk products in The Non-GMO Project's product verification program, its ties to Dean Foods raises concerns for many health food enthusiasts.

Mark Kastel, a senior farm policy analyst from the Cornucopia Institute, says that WhiteWave's Horizon brand dairy milk comes from factory operations with as many as 10,000 cows living in their own filth. Even though their Silk products now appear to be going non-GMO, the company is currently headed by the former CEO of Dean Foods, Gregg Engles, which makes it tough to trust their stance on organic, non-GMO food, and especially GMO labeling.

At this time, Earthbound Farm's products are all organic and non-GMO, but there is no telling if that could change in the future due to WhiteWave's, and Dean Foods', influence. All organic producers should be supported for contributing to better, healthier food choices, but it is almost always safer to go with small, local farms whenever possible.

Natural News, By: Jonatha Benson, 12/08/2013

Known today as the National Center for Genetic Resources Preservation (NCGRP), the laboratory collected seed data on 10 common produce items: beets, cabbages, sweet corn, lettuces, muskmelons, peas, radishes, squashes, tomatoes and cucumbers. NCGRP compared the availability of seeds for each of these items in 1903 to their availability in 1983, which was still long before the time genetically modified organisms (GMOs) hit the scene.

Based on the data, seed stocks have shrunk dramatically over the course of the past century, with many heirloom varieties of produce disappearing from the commercial seed supply. According to National Geographic, which recently put out an "infographic" illustrating this decline in seed diversity, many heirloom varieties of common fruits and vegetables that were cultivated by generations before us have gone completely extinct. "As we've come to depend on a handful of commercial varieties of fruits and vegetables, thousands of heirloom varieties have disappeared," explains National Geographic. "It's hard to know exactly how many have been lost over the past century."

(NaturalNews) Legislation outlawing all future plantings of genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) as well as the very companies that manufacture and spread them has become law on Hawaii's "Big Island" following the historic passage of Bill 113. According to reports, the new law prohibits biotechnology companies like Monsanto and Dow from further experimenting with GMO crops and seeds on the Big Island, and also forbids any new GMOs from being cultivated there.