Tag: Big Agri
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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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Ten Part Series: GMO Mythbusting
Greenstate TV, a website with a subheading that reads: exploring agriculture’s surprising role in solving modern global challenges, puts out short videos about GMOs and other related agriculture topics. Rick, the interviewer conducts the tête–à–têtes over skype. For short little snippets of reliable information or pro-science opinions, the videos fit the bill. Rick even interviewed yours…
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Do Corporations Really Dominate Farming?
Food and ag writer Tom Philpott of Mother Jones certainly has kept my attention through my own evolution from anti-GMO to pro-science supporter of GMOs. He used to be my hero. When it comes to recombinant DNA technology or genetic engineering in general, he mostly writes on the side of the antis but every now…
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American Expat Living In Anti-GMO Haven Ecuador Offers Perspective
Not long ago I received an email in my sleuth4health inbox. The tone of the email was friendly, encouraging and basically in agreement with Sleuth4Health that GMOs are as safe as conventional food. Since the individual had taken the time to write, had an informed opinion about GMOs, and was living what seemed to me…
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Science Is Laughing At Us (Repost)
Originally posted on April 23, 2013, this post marked a huge change for Sleuth4Health and was the first piece of an extended series of posts under the heading “The Benevolent Side Of GMOs.” In case you missed it, enjoy. If you are on the fence about GMOs, it might help you pick a side. Mostly,…
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How to temper an anti-GMO blogger: My story
Series: The Benevolent Side of GMOs My last post marks the beginning of and introduction to my new series about the Benevolent Side of GMOs. In this post, I’m telling my story, the story of exactly how I went from dogmatic, card-carrying member of the anti-GMO movement to someone who has taken a step back…
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Science Is Laughing At Us
Ok readers. It is time to come clean about something that is deeply troubling to me. I have read. I have learned. I have talked to a real scientist. I have even tried to get past the abstract and decipher scientific jargon in a report (epic fail). I have pondered. I have soul searched. I have…
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Two Ironies
Something rather ironic is happening. Just as some US food retailers are beginning to pledge to carry non-GMO foods, grocery chains in the UK are telling their customers that they can no longer insure that chicken feed is free of GMOs. According to Supply Management, The UK grocery store chain Tesco has recently made this…
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Look Out Monsanto: The Global Food Movement Is Rising
Guest post by Daniel Moss of Yes! Used by Permission. Chewing on a mouthful of locally grown lettuce, I wondered if the claims I’d heard about the global food-justice movement were true. Was there a line to follow, however crooked, between my purchase of these greens, land reform in Brazil and opposition to genetically modified…
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What? ANOTHER Growth Chemical For Beef?
I recently ran across this article in the Whole Foods Blog telling of a new generation of growth promotants for beef cattle. Up until that moment, I had never even heard of a growth promotant (and my spell-checker is not liking the word much, either) and within the promotant category is a more specific promotant…
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