Category: GE
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Do You Equate Anti-GMO Activism With Supporting Local, Family Farms?
Do you equate anti-GMO activism with supporting local, family farms? If you do, then please read the post I link to below. It concerns the Hawaiian papaya industry, local family farms, and just how much misinformation circulates regarding the history of the Hawaiian papaya, farmers, and genetic modification (which saved the industry, by the way).…
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Anti-GMO Activism In Europe Just As Frustrating To Scientists There As Here In US
American anti-GMO activists often use the notion that ‘Europeans have banned GMO production so it must be bad’ as a rallying cry as to why we should follow suit in the US. The truth is that scientists are just as supportive of GM technology there as they are here but are even more bound by…
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Maybe GMOs Could Have Saved Greg
Another (extremely) benevolent GMO Greg was my big brother, and he left this world four years ago. He died from a malignant brain tumor that looked like an octopus just inside his left ear, a tumor that declared war on his body. Specifically, his tumor was a glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) which is a very late…
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Another One Bites The Dust (Of Reason)
Well, well, well, Mr. Bill Nye appears to be the latest GMOs-Are-Actually-Pretty-Neat-Come-Lately. Welcome to the fold, Mr. Nye. I doubt many science types are surprised that you eventually got here, even if it took you awhile. Apparently a face-to-face encounter with Monsanto scientists was enough for the science guy to stop questioning the safety, utility…
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My review of “The Birth of the Pill” by Jonathan Eig
I haven’t posted in awhile so I thought it would be apropos to wander a bit afield of what I usually post. Today I offer a book review. The book’s full title is The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution. The author is Jonathan Eig. After reading this…
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The Power Of A Simple Table
I ran across this table today on facebook and the instructions that accompanied it were to share, share and share alike so I’m doing my part. Thank you to Ryan Megan for posting it. First of all, GMOs, or better put – transgenic technology, is one of several techniques known as genetic engineering. Yet…
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The Other (Big) Reason I Changed My Mind About GMOs
It has been well documented here on this blog how I went from being an anti-GMO activist, completely opposed to transgenic technology as it relates to crops and food, to supporting it and calling out the very activists whom I once revered. In the Sleuth4Health chronicles that describe events leading up to and just…
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Yay Oregon!
The meta-analysis reveals robust evidence of GM crop benefits for farmers in developed and developing countries. Such evidence may help to gradually increase public trust in this technology. -A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops/Klümper, Qaim Recently on twitter I was made fun of, called ridiculous, a music teacher of all things, …
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Environmentalists Concerned About Climate Change – Please Take Note!
To anyone concerned about climate change, I am very concerned about climate change too – AND I support biotechnology – GMOs. Please look at this graphic. This is powerful. Julee K/Sleuth4Health
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Let The Costly Irrationality Begin
Things are heating up in my home state of Oregon. This is the first of likely several more posts I will make regarding the upcoming election. I am specifically referring to ballot measure 92 which will appear on the November ballot, the campaign to label GM foods – only in Oregon, a state with a…
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