Tag: Oregon right to know
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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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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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Maine emerging with big GMO labeling momentum
During the November election, prop 37 in California got a LOT of attention. Prop 37 would have required GMO labeling had it passed. It was believed that if GMO labeling laws could pass in California, the whole country would benefit because California is such a huge chunk of the population. It was narrowly defeated but […]
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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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GMO Labeling Concerns on the Move, Awareness Growing
Here is an article in the Sacramento Bee about how the movement to label GMO, though shot down in California for now, is moving both up to Oregon (my home state) and Washington and also back east to Vermont and Connecticut.