Blogs.prevention.com, By:  Robyn O'Brien, 06/09/2013

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.  And the image below could not do a better job of showing our country’s food awakening when it comes to genetically engineered ingredients quietly being slipped into our food.

It shows the cities where people have come together to call attention to this change that was introduced into our food supply about 15 years ago: the genetic modification of a select number of food crops by a chemical company that enables these crops to be increasingly saturated with their chemicals. It’s an operating system, hardwire the seeds to withstand chemicals, and a brilliant business model for a chemical company.  The thing is: consumers aren’t so sure.  Around the world, 64 countries labeled these ingredients, and if the map below is any indicator, it appears that Americans around the country want the US to follow suit.

RT.com, By: Andrea Germanos, 06/03/2013

Protests continue to swell across Turkey as tens of thousands of people joined the fourth consecutive day of anti-government actions in which "the demands of the protesters have broadened with their numbers."

"We have had enough of the way [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan understands democracy and the way he wants to dictate his rules," Ozgur Aksoy, an engineer demonstrating in Gezi Park on Monday, told Agence France-Presse. "It's not only about the park here, it is about everything else in the last 10 years. People are angry, very angry." Justin Wedes, one of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street and who is in Turkey now, describes how the protest that started out to save a public park quickly morphed into something much bigger.

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Washingtonpost.com, By: Steven Mufson, 05/31/2013

Investors drove down the price of Monsanto shares by 4 percent on Friday as South Korea joined Japan in suspending imports of U.S. wheat after an unapproved strain of genetically modified wheat was discovered in a field in eastern Oregon. The strain of wheat, designed to resist harmful effects from Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller, was never commercially developed by the St. Louis-based agriculture giant in large part because wheat growers did not want to risk retaliation from their biggest export markets.

Fields used to test new crop varieties are burned and checked for surviving crops. So the mysterious appearance of the Monsanto wheat has raised questions about how the strain traveled there and whether it is lurking in the commercial wheat crop.

Naturelsociety, By: Christina Sarich

Our collective outcry of ‘NO to GMO’ is working. In hot off the press, Dow AgroSciences is still waiting for permission from regulatory bodies to allow them to plant their highly controversial new weed control system and crops called ‘Enlist.’ Ironic isn’t it – after all, we’ve enlisted the help of our friends and neighbors to stare these corporate bullies in the eye and to sit complacent no longer as our food supply is genetically modified to cause cancer, infertility, and organ failure, to kill our bees, and endanger future generations through higher infant mortality rates.

We can’t give up now; it’s starting to work. If one squeaky hinge can’t shut the door, a million of them will shut down the house, the congress, and even the USDA. As U.S. farmers buy seed for this coming season’s crops the Enlist seed has still not been given approval by the feds.

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