Category: GMOs
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GMO Use Will Advance Regardless Of Folks Like Mercola
Doc Mercola is at it again – spreading fear and misinformation. Claiming a scientific position when in fact, his extremist posts about GMOs are quite the opposite. I subscribe to his emails – for entertainment mostly. Though I delete the vast majority of the emails, every now and then I open one up, as I […]
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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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No Organisms Left In The Products – Let Alone GM Ones
Today I am reviewing a brief video that packs a punch – titled GMOs and Health Safety, presented May 9 of this year at the UCLA Women’s Health Conference. The speaker is Alan McHughen. an Oxford-educated molecular geneticist with a focus on crop improvement and sustainability. There are four things I especially appreciate about this […]
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A Supportive Letter In My Inbox
Because I speak favorably about GMOs and how promising I believe transgenic technology is, I get a lot of push back from vehement anti-GMO types – here at the blog and on my sleuth4health facebook and twitter pages. I frequently make the point that the technology is not only acceptable or tolerable to me, it […]
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‘GMO-Free’ Should Be a Specialty Food Label & Premier Episode of “Talking Biotech” Features Yours Truly
Yes, I changed my mind about GMOs It is no secret that in spring of 2013, after focusing this blog solely on bashing biotech and calling for strict labeling laws, I stopped in my tracks, pivoted, and performed a complete one-eighty. I was one of the folks, and there are a few of us out […]
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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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The First World Causing Problems
Originally posted on The Skeptical Beard:
Have you ever thought about how lucky you are? Site traffic tells me that most of you are from very tech-savvy nations. You probably don’t worry about catching deadly diseases or whether you’ll have a roof over your head tonight or where your next meal is coming from. We…
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