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Mounting Concerns About The Health Effects of Genetically Modified Ingredients And The Herbicides Used In Production Incite Consumer Action On Top-Selling Formula Companies to Remove GMOs WASHINGTON, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Similac, Enfamil, and Gerber Good Start - who combined account for more than 90% of all infant formula sales in the U.S. - are exposing American and Canadian babies to potentially grave health risks by using genetically modified ingredients,...

National Coalition Calls on Hershey and Mars to Label GMOs in Chocolates, Other Candy ... Or Get Them Out Completely WASHINGTON, Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What will you get for your loved one this Valentine's Day? If genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in chocolates are not on your shopping list, you will want to know about GMO Inside's new push to get the nation's largest candy manufacturers--Hershey and Mars--to break up with GMOs in 2013. GMO Inside, a campaign...

Art Car travels from across America to campaign for GMO Labeling WASHINGTON, Dec. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After swimming the highways of California for over 6 months, the Fishycorn Car is returning home to its spawning grounds in Washington, DC. Created in the Fall of 2011 by the DC51 Artist Collective, the Fishycorn Car is a blue 1990 Ford Tempo that has affixed to the roof a giant statue of a genetically engineered shark merged with an ear of corn. Adorned with...

Thousands of Negative Posts Result in General Mills Removing App Encouraging People to Share What Cheerios Means to Them. WASHINGTON, Dec. 6, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The GMO Inside campaign announced today that thousands of concerned consumers have flooded Cheerios' Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/Cheerios) distressed about genetically engineered ingredients in Cheerios and outraged at General Mills contributing over $1.1 million to "No on 37" in California, the...

WALTHAM, Mass., Sept. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: LIOX) today announced that more than 20 market leaders have chosen Lionbridge's Global Marketing Operations (GMO) to produce, manage, deliver and optimize multichannel digital marketing campaigns and content in local markets worldwide. Lionbridge GMO clients span multiple market sectors and include market leaders such as Canon, Capital One, Cisco, Expedia, Master Control, Microsoft, Midtronics,...

WASHINGTON, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kevin Keefe, a 60-year-old retired bicycle messenger, will pedal more than 3,000 miles from the White House to California beginning June 20, 2012 to raise awareness about the genetically engineered foods that Americans unknowingly consume. These foods, typically developed in a lab to survive application of chemical herbicides or to produce insecticide, are also termed "genetically modified organisms" or "GMOs." Unlike nearly 50...

ORLANDO, Fla., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Millions of people around the world are searching for God. In response, Global Media Outreach (GMO), a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International, is sending faithful churchgoers ... to their computers, training them to become online missionaries out of their homes. "People are looking for answers. And, not surprisingly, they are looking for those answers on the Internet," says Dr. Allan Beeber, director of GMO's Orlando office. According to...

By Gonzalez, Carmen G INTRODUCTION On September 29, 2006, a World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement panel issued its final decision (the EC- Biotech decision) in the complaint brought by the United States, Canada, and Argentina against the European Communities (EC) over the EC's alleged moratorium on the approval and marketing of agricultural and food products containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs).1 The panel concluded that the EC had applied a de facto moratorium on the...

By Jeremy Smith BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Most Europeans believe that genetically modified (GMO) foods should not be encouraged and see biotech crops as posing a risk to society, a survey requested by the European Commission showed on Thursday. While there was general support for medical and industrial biotechnology, EU citizens polled in nearly all the bloc's 25 countries remained skeptical about biotech used in agriculture. "The lesson for agri-food biotechnology is that unless new crops...