This is a resource blog for GMO Free News, a Google Hangout hosted by women for women who want to know what is in their food.
Now an estimated 80 percent of processed food in the U.S. contains ingredients from crops altered in the lab to make them hardier, more resistant to disease and pests, and more tolerant of herbicides.
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Ep115: Tara Cook-Littman from GMO Free CT
John Hartwell welcomes Tara Cook-Littman back to Stream of Conscience. Tara is the Director for GMO Free CT, a grassroots organization dedicated to pushing legislation through the Connecticut legislature to mandate labeling of food products that contain Genetically Modified Organism or GMOs. Today Tara focuses on the legislative effort to make Connecticut the first state in the nation to require labeling of GMOs - an effort that failed in last year's session amid fears of a lawsuit by biotech firms on free speech grounds. (30 mins)
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