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Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, are unnatural, novel organisms created and patented by giant corporations. Since the 1990s, GMOs have entered the food supply without undergoing independent, long-term safety testing.

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2022 Year in review: Trends by the numbers
2022: The Year in Review
2022: The Year in Review
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Spicy Miracle Ramen with Seared Kielbasa and Jammy Eggs
How Nature Can Inspire Your Own Dormant Season
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The Butterfly label on cookies, pies and candy canes
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"Place-ful" Eating: How to Survive Winter’s Doldrums
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Holiday Gift Guide: Inspiration To Fit Your Budget
Healthy food clean eating
Join Us this January for Little Labels, Big Impact
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New GMO Alert: Move over synbio stevia; there are new GMO sweeteners in town
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Could These 5 Indigenous Fishing Techniques Help Revitalize Salmon?
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You Say Tomato, We Say GMO
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Mexico’s GMO Corn Ban Aims To Protect Cultural Heritage
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Beverages are Better with the Butterfly!
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Celebrate Non-GMO Project Verification with Zing!
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New GMO Alert: Purple tomato recently approved for U.S. import and cultivation
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The Butterfly Lands on More Natural Choices
Testing Protects Your Right To Choose Non-GMO
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Sales of Non-GMO Project verified products are growing
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This Summer's Biggest and Tastiest Food News
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Better with the Butterfly
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Executive Order is a Massive Push Toward Further Privatization of U.S. Food Supply
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New GMO Alert: Gene-edited Microbes Introduce a New Twist in GMO Agriculture
The Old Story Behind New GMOs
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The GMO High-risk List: Corn
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New GMO Alert: The seduction of beauty – What’s really in that jar?
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3 Crucial Reasons to Block GMO Salmon
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New GMO Alert: Bee-less Honey and Bean-less Coffee: A Translation Guide
2022: The Year in Review
2022: The Year in Review
Freshly harvested carrots and onions lying on a rustic paved pathway.
"Place-ful" Eating: How to Survive Winter’s Doldrums
Different sugar on white background
New GMO Alert: Move over synbio stevia; there are new GMO sweeteners in town
Cedar posts assembled across a river as part of weir construction to catch migrating salmon.
Could These 5 Indigenous Fishing Techniques Help Revitalize Salmon?
Graphic of a tomato plant against a purple background
You Say Tomato, We Say GMO
Purple tomatoes vine
New GMO Alert: Purple tomato recently approved for U.S. import and cultivation
Testing Protects Your Right To Choose Non-GMO
Plant harvest
New GMO Alert: Molecular Farming
Looking for Plant-Based Foods? Non-GMO Options Abound!
GMO crops in plant-based foods? No, thanks!
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Where New GMOs Show Up in Plant-Based Foods
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New GMO Alert: Motif FoodWorks™
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What's NOT a GMO?
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New GMO Alert: Bioceres GM HB4 Wheat Gains Traction Worldwide
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Who's Looking Out for You? We Are!
New GMO Alert: Animal-Free Dairy Products to Watch Out For
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What's wrong with GMOs? A lot.
New GMO Alert: Betterland Foods
What is a GMO
What Is a GMO?
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How useful are GMOs on a warming planet? Middling.
New GMO Alert: Recombinetics Heat-Tolerant GE Cow
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Who Ate All the Frankenfish? (Hint: It Might Have Been You!)
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U.S. Becomes 65th Country to Label GMOs — But Whose Laws Are the Best?
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New GMO Alert: Climate Hero Super Cake Mix
Golden Rice
Genetically Engineered Golden Rice: Real Hope or Misplaced Hype?
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New GMO Alert: Modern Kitchen
Know Your Labels! The Butterfly Makes Non-GMO Easy
Know Your Labels! The Butterfly Makes Non-GMO Easy
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There's a New Label in Town — But the Butterfly Stays Strong
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Busy as a Beverage
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Non-GMO Project Presents: The Year in Food, 2021
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Exposing GMOs: Are You Being Fooled by Imposters?
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New GMO Alert: GMO-Made Egg White Proteins
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GMOs and Clean Beauty Products— Looking for the Butterfly in Cosmetics and Skincare
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The Magic — and the Monopoly — of Seeds
Female scientist facing their back is holding a tech device doing testing in a corn field
New GMO Alert: Gene-edited Microbes Introduce a New Twist in GMO Agriculture
The Old Story Behind New GMOs
Pastel pink eyeshadow and brush
New GMO Alert: The seduction of beauty – What’s really in that jar?
ground coffee and honey top view
New GMO Alert: Bee-less Honey and Bean-less Coffee: A Translation Guide
2022: The Year in Review
2022: The Year in Review
Different sugar on white background
New GMO Alert: Move over synbio stevia; there are new GMO sweeteners in town
Purple tomatoes vine
New GMO Alert: Purple tomato recently approved for U.S. import and cultivation
A sunset image of a barn on a green agricultural field
This Summer's Biggest and Tastiest Food News
An image of capitol hill building
Executive Order is a Massive Push Toward Further Privatization of U.S. Food Supply
Plant harvest
New GMO Alert: Molecular Farming
A young woman is seated at a table enjoying a healthy smoothie. There is a tray filled with fruit and vegetables on the table in front of her. The background shows illustrations of a variety of foods and dishes.the table
Where New GMOs Show Up in Plant-Based Foods
Open field with several cows standing
New GMO Alert: Motif FoodWorks™
wheat field
New GMO Alert: Bioceres GM HB4 Wheat Gains Traction Worldwide
New GMO Alert: Animal-Free Dairy Products to Watch Out For
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Synbio Milk Is a Dud
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The Butterfly Protects Your Right To Choose
New GMO Alert: Betterland Foods
Can a Lab-based Food System Save the World?
Can a Lab-based Food System Save the World?
New GMO Alert: Recombinetics Heat-Tolerant GE Cow
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Going Plant-Based to Save the Planet? Better Look For the Butterfly, Too
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New GMO Alert: Climate Hero Super Cake Mix
Will Biotech "POP" Organic Corn's Best Defense Against GMO Pollen?
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New GMO Alert: Modern Kitchen
Know Your Labels! The Butterfly Makes Non-GMO Easy
Know Your Labels! The Butterfly Makes Non-GMO Easy
At the Supermarket: Handsome Man Uses Smartphone and Takes Picture of the Can of Goods. He's Standing with Shopping Cart in Canned Goods Section.
The New BE Label is Here! Or Is It??? (And Why You Should Still Look for the Butterfly)
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Non-GMO Project Presents: The Year in Food, 2021
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New GMO Alert: GMO-Made Egg White Proteins
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What You Need To Know About Bioengineered (BE) Food Labeling
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GMOs and Clean Beauty Products— Looking for the Butterfly in Cosmetics and Skincare
Corn crop field
The GMO High-risk List: Corn
colorful dried corn bunch for harvest decoration
Mexico’s GMO Corn Ban Aims To Protect Cultural Heritage
GMO crops in plant-based foods? No, thanks!
Non-GMO Project Verified Non-GMO Canola
GMO Feature: Canola
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Save Our Soil! 6 Reasons To Support a Better Farm Bill
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3 Crucial Reasons to Block GMO Salmon
The Non-GMO Project GMO free labeling for food products
Why We Partner With Other Labels
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Together We Can Regenerate America
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5 Ways Dairy Can Be a Climate Ally
Collage of three images: a strand of DNA, a field of grain and two people in the foreground gesturing over a computer.
What's wrong with GMOs? A lot.
Crops in drought
How useful are GMOs on a warming planet? Middling.
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What Could a Non-GMO Food System Look Like?
Earth Day
How Big Ag Accidentally Inspired Earth Day (And the Non-GMO Project)
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6 Benefits of Going Non-GMO
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Non-GMO Project Presents: The Year in Food, 2021
Monarch Butterfly Non-GMO Project
The Non-GMO Project Standard — Announcements
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Save Our Soil! 6 Reasons To Support a Better Farm Bill
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Stand With Mexico for Food Sovereignty & Their Right to Restrict GMO Corn
The Case for Debt Relief for Black Farmers
The Case for Debt Relief for Black Farmers
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TIME TO COME CLEAN ABOUT HIDDEN GMOS IN PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS
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Study Shows 69% of U.S. Consumers Demand Verification of Retailer & Brand Claims About Sustainability 
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Executive Order is a Massive Push Toward Further Privatization of U.S. Food Supply
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More Than Half of All Plant-Based Foods Are Non-GMO Project Verified – and Growing
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Non-GMO Project Stands with Straus Family Creamery, Other Dairy Farmers, as Synbio Milk Accelerates
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Non-GMO Project Statement to Canada's Minister of Agriculture on Deregulation of Gene-Edited Seeds
Monarch Butterfly Non-GMO Project
The Non-GMO Project Standard — Announcements
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5 Behaviors That Shape Our World
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Save Our Soil! 6 Reasons To Support a Better Farm Bill
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Join Us at Expo West!
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Coming Clean: Your guide to hidden GMOs in personal care
The Non-GMO Project GMO free labeling for food products
Why We Partner With Other Labels
Healthy food clean eating
Join Us this January for Little Labels, Big Impact
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Better with the Butterfly
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Who's Driving the Future of Plant-Based Foods?
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Volunteer on the Standards Committee!
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Who's Looking Out for You? We Are!
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Program Rules and Procedures: Announcements
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How Do You Milk a Microbe?
Non-GMO Project booth at Expo West 2022
Natural Products Expo West 2022: March 8-12 in Anaheim, CA
5 Women-led Companies That Walk the Talk
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For Black Women, Self-care Is Essential Care
The Case for Debt Relief for Black Farmers
The Case for Debt Relief for Black Farmers
Salmon mouth open above the water
3 Crucial Reasons to Block GMO Salmon
The Non-GMO Project GMO free labeling for food products
Why We Partner With Other Labels
2022: The Year in Review
2022: The Year in Review
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Plant-Based Foods in the Social Justice Movement
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Together We Can Regenerate America
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What Could a Non-GMO Food System Look Like?
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4 Nonprofits Everyone's Talking About
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6 Benefits of Going Non-GMO
African man looking up standing in a corn field
Non-GMO Project Presents: The Year in Food, 2021
5 Women-led Companies That Walk the Talk
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Shopping Your Values Is Easier Than Ever
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Spicy Miracle Ramen with Seared Kielbasa and Jammy Eggs
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Celebrate Non-GMO Project Verification with Zing!
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GNT launches Non-GMO Project Verified range of clean-label EXBERRY® color concentrates
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Stay Cool and Non-GMO With Verified Ice Cream
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Bell’s Reines is now Non-GMO Project Verified!
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Holiday Gift Guide: Tastes, Textiles and Terrariums
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5 Behaviors That Shape Our World
5 Women-led Companies That Walk the Talk
African American woman with curly hair tied up looking in the mirror doing skincare
For Black Women, Self-care Is Essential Care
Woman walking by a supermarket aisle carrying a bag that has salad greens
Shopping Your Values Is Easier Than Ever
Left hand touching an ipad while prepping ingredients in the kitchen
Spicy Miracle Ramen with Seared Kielbasa and Jammy Eggs
How Nature Can Inspire Your Own Dormant Season
Freshly harvested carrots and onions lying on a rustic paved pathway.
"Place-ful" Eating: How to Survive Winter’s Doldrums
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This School Year, Go Non-GMO for Lunch
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The Non-GMO Pet: Why We Verify Products for Your Best Friend
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Tasty Non-GMO Treats for Your Holiday Cookout
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Stay Cool and Non-GMO With Verified Ice Cream
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Holiday Gift Guide: Tastes, Textiles and Terrariums
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