Tag: nutrition
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Sleuth4Health Goes Soylent
Ever heard of Soylent? I’m not talking about Charlton Heston’s chilling revelation that – Soylent green is people – it’s people! – at the end of the classic sci-fi flick of the same name. That movie was based on a novel called Make room! Make room! by Harry Harrison. In the novel, ‘soylent’ was a…
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Let The Costly Irrationality Begin
Things are heating up in my home state of Oregon. This is the first of likely several more posts I will make regarding the upcoming election. I am specifically referring to ballot measure 92 which will appear on the November ballot, the campaign to label GM foods – only in Oregon, a state with a…
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An Amusing Look At Food Science?
5/27 – Headline changed from An Amusing Look at Science to An Amusing Look at Food Science This article has been thoroughly edited and updated since its original posting. After some serious reflection on the entire video I posted below, I shifted my opinion quite a bit – to the point of agreeing with the…
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Pretty Nifty GM Tomatoes
Shortly after my conversion from anti-GMO blogger to pro-science observer and rational thinker, I ran a series in Sleuth4Health called The Benevolent side of GMOs in which I highlighted spedific GMOs, science, and farming practices that I found to be beneficial to mankind. Some examples are the Arctic Apple, Simplot Potato, Hawaian Papaya, Golden Rice.…
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We’re Not All Lefty Kooks Out Here In Oregon!
I just happened upon this youtube video this morning. It was one of those all too rare serendipitous moments that, when they happen, assure me all is right with the world. I knew immediately I had to post it and give this guy some props. We have in this piece Mr. Jeff Holiday, the quintessential…
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Excellent, Compact Interviews on the topic of GMOs
Awhile back I did a two-part video interview series regarding my views on GMOs with Greenstate TV. You can view parts one and two (in reverse order) here and here. Today I am posting Greenstate TV interviews with two other people whom I admire greatly. Specifically these two were absolutely instrumental in my realization that…
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What Is a ‘Natural’ or ‘Whole’ Food – Exactly?
These three graphics came from a blog by James Kennedy, a British chemistry teacher living in Australia. Here is his explanation for creating the posters: As a Chemistry teacher, I want to erode the fear that many people have of “chemicals”, and demonstrate that nature evolves compounds, mechanisms and structures far more complicated and unpredictable…
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Opposition to Golden Rice Described as ‘Moral Abyss’
Series: The Benevolent Side of GMOs (This post is part of an ongoing series I began in April, 2013. The series begins here.) My post today offers links to an excellent and informative blog based out of British Columbia called Allow Golden Rice. Golden Rice is perhaps the most benevolent of all GMOs. Lifesaving and…
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Below is the beginning of an article from the LA Times that highlights the simple fact that organic food is by law GMO free in the US. So this begs the question, is GM labeling even necessary? By Dan Glickman and Kathleen MerriganDecember 19, 2013 Many Americans would like to know more about what they…
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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…