Food & Water Watch

 The use of offsets poses significant problems in California’s new market.

Most of Monsanto’s history is steeped in heavy industrial chemical production — a legacy that is extremely at odds with the environmentally friendly, feed-the-world image that the company spends millions trying to convey.

Instead of privatizing our fisheries, we should be working more closely with fishing communities and sustainable, small-scale fishermen to create adaptive management strategies that protect our fish and our fishermen. 

Yesterday Japan announced it would be joining the talks on finalizing the TPP.

Dan Charles’s NPR piece this morning asserts that GE technology in the form of golden rice will help feed the developing world, but there is no evidence that GE technology has had any positive impacts on feeding the developing world, or creating more nutritious, vitamin-rich foods for consumers.

Maryland has an opportunity to ban fracking now.

Around half of the fish that the world eats for dinner comes from fish farms.

Factory fish farms crowd fish (and their waste) together, and compensate for these stressful conditions by relying on antibiotics, pesticides and other chemicals. 

The marriage between the leading synthetic biology company and one of the biggest agribusinesses in the U.S. could be catastrophic.

Fracking causes many public health and environmental problems and the last thing that Pennsylvanians need is another way for the oil and gas industry to capitalize on the Marcellus Shale at the expense of their health and well-being.