Month: January 2014
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Did You Know Insulin Is a GMO? (Well, it’s made with a GMO)
Note: I made a few minor edits and added to the title on 1/29. The article was formerly called Did You Know Insulin Is a GMO? Insulin is not a GMO in and of itself, but made with genetically engineered e coli. I don’t want to mislead in any way. My general point is that […]
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Maybe Before Believing Every anti-GMO Article & Meme, Do Some Vetting?
This article was updated on 1/26/2014. Misinformation about GMOs is prevalent on the internet. Boy is it ever. For me, much of it harkens back to show and tell time when I was in elementary school. Remember that? Kids would bring clipped newspaper articles, beloved family trinkets, travel souvenirs, photographs, things of that nature. In […]
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What Is a ‘Natural’ or ‘Whole’ Food – Exactly?
These three graphics came from a blog by James Kennedy, a British chemistry teacher living in Australia. Here is his explanation for creating the posters: As a Chemistry teacher, I want to erode the fear that many people have of “chemicals”, and demonstrate that nature evolves compounds, mechanisms and structures far more complicated and unpredictable […]
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Opposition to Golden Rice Described as ‘Moral Abyss’
Series: The Benevolent Side of GMOs (This post is part of an ongoing series I began in April, 2013. The series begins here.) My post today offers links to an excellent and informative blog based out of British Columbia called Allow Golden Rice. Golden Rice is perhaps the most benevolent of all GMOs. Lifesaving and […]
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Facts & Agendas – Like Oil & Water
The recent frigid weather over much of the US and the predictable climate denier cries of “global warming, what global warming?” that followed got me to thinking. When it comes to pushing a political or personal agenda, facts are useful only insomuch as they further whatever is desired by said political or personal agenda. I […]
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Anti GMO Greatest Hits of 2013
There is an open facebook group called GMOLOL that I frequent daily. It describes itself this way: A pro-science group for farmers, scientists, students, skeptics, and the rational public to share resources, memes, critical thinking. GMOLOL actually helped me define who I am within this great GMO public information debacle – and beyond. Clearly I’m […]
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