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- The Absurdity of Claiming that “All GMOs are Safe” In an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Mark Lynas recently wrote that “There is an equivalent level of scientific consensus on both issues…that climate change is real and genetically modified foods are safe.” But comparing the issues …
- Time To Talk “Conflicts of Interest” In Relation to GMOs Scientific conflicts of interest have been in the news a lot lately. For example, a federal judge recently ruled that various members of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee had conflicts of interest and…
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Author Archives: Belinda
Should Monsanto be the Target?
As I read about the protests held against Monsanto worldwide recently, I found myself wondering: is Monsanto the appropriate target for these protests? I know there are reasons people are unhappy with Monsanto. One is that during California’s most recent … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Big Ag, Big Food, campaign funding, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, GE labeling, Genetic Engineering, GMO regulation, GMOs, Labeling GE Foods, Monsanto, Obama, Prop 37, USDA
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The 411 on Monsanto’s Genetically Engineered Sweet Corn
Here’s a piece I wrote about Monsanto’s genetically engineered sweet corn that was posted on Tom Philpott’s Mother Jones blog earlier today: Genetically engineered (GE) sweet corn is being sold at a Walmart near you. And because that company has said it sees … Continue reading
Op Ed on Prop 37 in The San Jose Mercury News
Here’s an op-ed piece I wrote that was published in The San Jose Mercury News earlier this week: I’m a molecular geneticist who helped commercialize the world’s first genetically engineered whole food. I wholeheartedly support providing Californians with information about whether … Continue reading
Crop Genetic Engineering, Warts and All
This is a paper I wrote that was published by PBGworks October 26, 2012: Crop genetic engineering is a powerful technology that is helping scientists reveal how genes and genomes function. It could also be used to solve important global … Continue reading
Danny DeVito and Friends: Yes on 37 Video
Here’s a video about Prop 37 put together by Food & Water Watch’s campaign in favor of labeling GE foods. For more information on Food & Water Watch and Prop 37 visit: http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/yeson37.
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Tagged CA Right To Know, Danny DeVito, GE labeling, genetically engineered food, Prop 37
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On the Right to Know What We’re Buying
Here is the text of an op-ed piece I wrote that was published in the Davis Enterprise on September 20, 2012: Proposition 37, “The California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act,” was not written “to authorize a whole new … Continue reading
Corrections to San Francisco Chronicle article
I wrote the following letter in response to an article on California’s Prop 37 written by Stacy Finz in the San Francisco Chronicle; it was published in The Davis Enterprise on August 24, 2012. First, there are currently no crops … Continue reading
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Tagged EPA, FDA, mutagenic process, Nature Biotechnology, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, superweeds, USDA
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I’m Voting “yes” on California’s Proposition 37
I’m in favor of labeling genetically engineered (GE) foods. And so I’m voting for California’s Proposition 37, the “California Right to Know Genetically Engineered Food Act,” in November. Prop 37 calls for the labeling of all whole (GE) foods, like … Continue reading
Open Letter to the American Medical Association
It is striking that nowhere in AMA document H-480.958, amended June 2012, is it mentioned that both of the major methods currently utilized to genetically engineer crop plants are highly mutagenic processes. Foreign genes transferred from one organism to another … Continue reading
Learn Lessons from Biotech Mistakes Rather than Repeat Them
Twenty years ago, before genetically engineered (GE) foods were commercially available, one of the big concerns environmentalists had about the use of this biotechnology was that it would lead to “superweeds.” Their concern stemmed from biotech products in the industrial … Continue reading
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Tagged Dow Chemical, EPA, herbicide-resistance, Monsanto, Syngenta, USDA
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