The university's College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources has restricted and violated one of it's own professor's academic freedom, and a group of his professional colleagues are speaking out against his mistreatment.

Celebrity Moms Want Food Companies to Get Real About GMO Labeling

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Constance Zimmer all signed a petition pushing for labeling transparency.

"You cannot conceal what's in our kids' food," celebrity personal trainer Jillian Michaels says in a new PSA for Just Label It, a campaign aimed at supporting mandatory labeling for genetically modified foods, better known as GMOs.

The new video, which features commentary from actors and moms including Sarah Michelle Gellar, Ginnifer Goodwin, and Constance Zimmer, is linked to a petition asking food companies to become more transparent about the products they're selling.

"When I started looking into what's in the food that I feed my son, I discovered how difficult it is to figure it out," Fast and the Furious actor Jordana Brewster says in the video. "I want GMOs labeled so that I don't need to guess whether or not they're in our food."

The controversial TPP trade deal could destroy the efforts of some states to mandate labelling of foods with GMO ingredients, while a bill moving through Congress has a similar goal.

A federal judge has also found that lawmakers intended to permit the GMO ban when they excluded Jackson County from a 2013 bill that pre-empted other local governments from regulating biotech crops.

Attention all farmers growing GMO crops in Josephine County (if any):

Please notify authorities you are growing said crops, in order that you may be penalized if you continue to grow them past Sept. 4.

That's the essence of a public notice due to be published by the county, following voter passage last year of a local measure banning the cultivation of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.

County Counsel Wally Hicks said last week that his office is fine-tuning the notice in preparation for publication in the Daily Courier.

Following voter passage of the ban in May 2014, any farmers growing GMO crops had a 12-month window to harvest or otherwise get rid of the crops, according to the measure.

The notice being published states that farmers currently growing GMO crops must contact the Josephine County Sheriff's Office with their name, crop location and crop type, plus a phase-out plan to be done by Sept. 4.

A new Organic & Non-GMO Forum has been added to the agenda at the 10th annual Oilseed & Grain Trade Summit, which will take place this year in Minneapolis, September 30 - October 2, at the Hyatt Regency. This new forum will address growing concerns by major food manufacturers and retailers over lack of sufficient suppliers of ingredients to meet increasing consumer demand for organic and non-GMO foods.

The forum, a unique one-day event, is the first industry event to convene stakeholders from across the organic and non-GMO supply chain in order to address the growth, opportunities and significant supply chain challenges that this sector of the food value chain presents. Critical trade flow data, along with innovative strategies, and new management tools and systems designed specifically to meet these supply and logistic challenges, will be highlighted and covered in-depth by leading industry experts.

Key topics to be addressed at the new Organic & Non-GMO Forum include:

GMO Testing Protocols: What's the Current Science?

Defining and Comparing Costs, Yields and Benefits for Conventional, Non-GMO and Organic Farm Practices

What Does Labeling Mean? Mandatory Biotech Labeling vs. Voluntary Non-GMO Labeling

PANEL: Managing Co-Existence and Chain of Custody

PANEL: Can Industry Work Together to Support Farmer's Right to Choose?

A food fight is under way in Congress that could decide whether genetically engineered food products are labeled as such.

You Don't Matter to Congress. But Monsanto Does.

275 members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of H.R. 1599, the DARK (Deny Americans the Right to Know) Act. By voting for the DARK Act, these politicians voted against truth and transparency, against science, against the more than century-old right of states to legislate on matters relating to food safety and labeling.

They voted against the 90-percent of Americans who are in favor of mandatory labeling of GMOs. They voted against the producers of non-GMO foods.

They voted against you.

The anti-labeling DARK Act sponsored by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kans.) is now also an anti-environment, anti-farmworker and anti-public health bill.

America has a proud tradition of empowering consumers. You can walk into any grocery store in the country, pick up a product from the shelf, and immediately learn the calorie count, the amount of protein per serving, and the full list of ingredients.