Tag: GM contamination
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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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Organics Vs. GMOs: Why The Debate?
Today I present a no-nonsense must-read from another one of my favorite “go to” websites: Genetic Literacy Project In the arena of public opinion, first-hand experience has taught us that fear can be very effective in winning the public over. There is a great deal of pseudo-science available on the Internet designed to generate fear […]
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In Their Own Words: Farmers Weigh In on GMOs, Part Four
In Their Own Words: Farmers Weigh In on GMOs, Part Four This article is a continuation of my last three posts and was originally posted on May 23, 2013 | 30 Comments Series: The Benevolent Side of GMOs Calling all farmers! 3. Has your experience with GM seed been favorable? Are you a repeat customer? […]
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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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Roundup Reality Check
My whole impetus to start Sleuth4Health came after I strolled aside an enormous corn field along I-80 in Iowa a few summers ago. It was being crop-dusted at the time. On a road trip from Oregon to Indiana with my husband and daughter, we had pulled into a rest stop and just wanted to go […]
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Revealing video about new pathogen in GMO crops
This video was posted early in 2011 – and I urge you to watch it in it’s entirety (about 20 minutes). It is an interview between a plant pathology expert (see below) and Dave Murphy, founder of Food Democracy Now. It’s at the end that a leading expert in the plant disease field, Dr. Don Huber, […]
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Trouble in Jackson County
When it comes to GMOs, I’m not sure what is worse – eating the genetically modified food that has not been thoroughly studied for long term safety or trying to sort through the seed and farming fiasco of organic farmers trying to maintain the integrity of their crops just a few hundred yards away from […]
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Your powerful pocketbook
This post comes from The Organic Consumers Association. There are companies, usually subsidiaries of much larger companies, that claim to be organic but when push came to shove, they gave money to defeat the GMO labeling proposition in California. They stomped on our right to know. Now it’s time to get even. Prop 37, the […]
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The World According to Monsanto, part 10
The final segment of this MUST-SEE documentary. All 10 segments are posted here in my blog.