Category: genetic engineering
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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 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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Luxury GMOs! Oh boy!
Wine and Chocolate, Wikimedia Commons Wine and chocolate are to be enjoyed. Isn’t that just part of living in a privileged society? I know in my monthly book club it is. But I also know we take it completely for granted. We have never asked ourselves what a book club meeting would be like without…
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Are GMOs Dangerous – Like, At All?
Here are the final two installments of the 10-part short video series put out by Greenstate TV titled “GMO Mythbusting”. This is an excellent at-a-glance series that so aptly touches on some of the main points of the public outcry against GMOs. The snippets are easily digestible and provide just enough information to hopefully make…
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
In keeping with my recent posts of a series of brief videos on singular topics concerning GMOs, here are the next three installments. The interviews are conducted between Green State TV and University of Florida plant geneticist Dr. Kevin Folta. Part 6: A compact exploration of the term “frankenfood” and what it really means. Part…