Weekly GMO News Update - 7/28/16 draft

[Steve]

Occupy Sonoma County - Weekly GMO News Update

Posted July 28, 2016

	Local Events
	Volunteer Meeting: GMO Growing Prohibition November Ballot Measure gmofreesonomacounty.com - Citizens for Healthy Farms and Families - 7/26 Volunteer Meeting - July 30, 2016  -  9:00-11:00  - 540 Pacific Ave, Santa Rosa across the street from the Odd Fellows' Hall  -  Meet our new Campaign Consultant and find out how you can be a part of a win in November. http://www.gmofreesonomacounty.com/volunteer
	Local Movie & Dinner Event: Percy Schmeiser - David vs Monsanto gmofreesonomacounty.com - Citizens for Healthy Farms and Families - 7/16 August 7, 2016 - 5:00-8:00, Sebastopol Grange - 6000 Sebastopol Ave, Sebastopol 5:00 Dinner - $15 donation includes a movie, Chipotle beef, chicken, vegetarian, vegan burrito or gluten free burrito bowl, beverage and a ticket for a drawing. 6:00 Movie Starts - $10 donation includes movie and a beverage.
	National & Global News
	Think Your Organic Food is GMO-Free? Don’t Be So Sure organicauthority.com - 7/26/16 ...GMOs are strictly prohibited in organic food, right? Well… the real answer is a bit more complicated than that. Suffice it to say, when you buy organic, you’re not necessarily always buying GMO-free.
	EU approves Monsanto, Bayer genetically modified soybeans reuters.com - 7/22/16 Monsanto expects Roundup Ready 2 Xtend soybeans, designed to tolerate applications of glyphosate and dicamba weed killers, to be planted on 15 million acres next spring and 55 million acres by 2019. The company is still waiting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to approve dicamba use on crops.
	South Korea rejects Argentina feed wheat after GMO strain found reuters.com - 7/26/16 South Korea rejected a shipment of Argentine feed wheat after finding unapproved strains of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in the cargo, the agriculture ministry said on Tuesday.
	Near the Tehachapi Mountains, a family farm looks to a future without GMOs latimes.com - 7/22/16 “We’re trying to create our own non-GMO grain belt,” Weiser said recently on the 83-acre farm his family has owned and worked since 1982.
	GE varieties of corn, cotton, and soybeans have plateaued at more than 90 percent of U.S. acreage planted with those crops  usda.gov - 7/25/16 U.S. soybeans, cotton and corn farmers have nearly universally adopted genetically engineered (GE) seeds in recent years, despite their typically higher prices.
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