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An analysis of data by The Times shows that crop yields did not increase and herbicide and insecticide use did not shrink in the 20 years since GMO seeds were introduced in North America. In fact, herbicide use has increased. ...

WASHINGTON – President Obama signed a bill into law over the weekend that supporters are calling a GMO labeling bill but that opponents charge is exactly the opposite. In fact, the new law was supported by Monsanto. It passed the ...

WASHINGTON – The House of Representatives sent a bill to President Obama Thursday that would overturn a landmark Vermont law requiring the labeling of GMO foods. The bill, which was backed by Monsanto and passed the House by a vote ...

Big Food and its allies in the US Senate have launched a sneaky new effort to kill GMO labeling. Senators are rushing to pass a bill designed to stop Vermont from requiring labels identifying genetically modified ingredients in food. Vermont’s ...

Foes of GMO foods won a huge victory this week when the US Senate blocked legislation that would have prevented states from requiring labeling on GMO products. The Biotech Labeling Solutions Act, better known by opponents as the DARK (Deny ...

Quietly across the nation, organic farmers are making progress in their battle to raise organic, GMO-free crops without the threat of cross-contamination from genetically modified fields. And, perhaps most surprisingly, a federal court has sided with the farmers. That’s the ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants your help in determining what a natural food is, and critics are concerned such a definition eventually will include such things as genetically modified foods and high fructose corn syrup. The FDA ...

Big Food is finally giving in to consumers on GMO labeling — sort of. By the end of 2017 a new app will tell you if up to 30,000 products from some of the world’s biggest food and beverage brands ...

The United States Senate may go against the wishes of 93 percent of Americans and ban labelling that tells customers if foods contain GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredients. The Senate’s Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry heard testimony on a ...

Vermont in recent months became the first state to require the labeling of GMO foods, and a county in Oregon went a step further by banning all genetically modified crops. But if the U.S. House of Representatives has its way, ...