Category: GMO
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Refreshing Voice Speaks In Favor of GMOs
Though I haven’t posted in awhile, I am still passionate about spreading the real truth about GMOs and letting my story be known. My blog tells the story – post by post – about how a person can go from believing that GMOs are dangerous and should be banned to realizing that there is much…
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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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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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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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Neil deGrasse Tyson Thought Creationists Were Irritating, Until the Anti#GMO Crowd Showed Up!
Want to make yourself public enemy number one in an instant? Say something, anything, that might be construed as a case for GMOs and it is a foregone conclusion. Are you a popular celebrity? Are you a household name? Has your knowledge and expertise been highly regarded in every other way up until now? Are…