Month: January 2013
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Happy cows bring profits
I put a lot of doom and gloom posts on this blog, so today I decided to do something a little different. I ran across this op-ed from the New York Times – a happy story about a dairy farm not more than 40 miles from my home southwest of Portland. The farmer has found […]
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Transgenic (GM) soy no good for Latin America
I was at the beautiful Central Oregon Coast this weekend. My husband and I stayed at a relative’s beach house, which offers a bird’s eye view of crashing surf and coarse sand. It was lovely and very relaxing, though as I’ve mentioned before, whenever I am at someone else’s home, it is virtually impossible to […]
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The plot thickens… again
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2266143/Uncovered-toxic-gene-hiding-GM-crops-Revelation-throws-new-doubt-safety-foods.html#ixzz2IjzgmmLM Even I, Sleuth 4 Health, am sometimes tempted to admit that, well maybe GMOs aren’t ALL bad. Am I rushing to judgement? Do I really know enough to be so dogmatic about this topic? Then I usually run across an article reporting on some new study, some new finding. Below are excerpts […]
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To be a corn or soybean farmer nowadays…
I just read this headline moments ago and it made my jaw drop: Monsanto’s Earnings Nearly Double as They Create a Farming Monopoly. I had to post and comment. Non-GMO farmers are getting pushed out of the market, but it’s not for a lack of trying on their part. Read below about the giant of […]
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Do we need GM food?
The biotech companies, their lobbyists and paid scientists, along with government officials who are in cahoots will have you believe that yes, we absolutely do. The common rhetoric is that genetic engineering is the only way to feed our ever-growing population and without it, we will all perish. Here are ten reasons why we don’t […]
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Genetically engineered vs. hybrid seeds
When I first began to learn about the existence of GMOs, and that I’d been eating them, unbeknownst, since the mid-1990s, I thought that the technology was in the same ballpark as hybridizing plants. I have since learned that they are not the same thing – at all. Vicki Mattern of Mother Earth News writes: […]
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Food looks the same…but is not the same
In her Inspired Bites column on the Prevention website, Robyn O’Brien writes: The landscape of food has changed. Not only is it available 24/7 and marketed to us using mobile apps and Internet games, but it is also full of lots of ingredients that just didn’t exist when we were kids. So while our food […]
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GMOs equal to climate change in significance
Sometimes I am so overwhelmed by this topic I am reporting about here – genetically modified organisms – GMO(s) – that I don’t know where to start my posts. Today is one of those days. It is a massive topic with far-reaching implications and I feel this driving energy even as I type… steering me… […]
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