Tag: BioTech industry
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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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‘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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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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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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Oregon Right to Know: I Don’t Want The Right to Know BS
Ray Seidler, retired EPA scientist, the newest pro-labeling darling appearing in Oregon ballot measure 92 ads. I really don’t understand this guy. PhD in microbiology? Maybe apply what you learned a little? Maybe lose the emotion-laden activist rhetoric and talk about real science? Maybe ask commercial farmers how they really feel about Monsanto and other […]
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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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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 […]