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- Would Nobel Laureate Richard Feynman Have Signed that GMO Letter? From what I have read about him, I am pretty sure that Richard Feynman would not have signed the recent letter in which a large percentage of our living Nobel laureates urged Greenpeace to end its opposition to genetically modified organisms (GMOs)…
- 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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Tag Archives: New York Times
Disappointment in the First 25 Years of GMO Foods
The world’s first, commercially available GMO (genetically modified organism) created for human or animal food was first sold in U.S. grocery stores twenty-five years ago today. I can still remember the excitement my colleagues and I at Calgene, Inc. felt as … Continue reading
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Tagged children, China, FDA, Genetic Engineering, GMO, Monsanto, New York Times, Reuters, rice, Roundup, Science, sustainability, Technology, transparency, USDA, vitamin A
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Food Evolution Film Neglects to Mention Important Facts…Like Glyphosate is a Probable Human Carcinogen
The film Food Evolution, despite being narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has been called “a slick piece of GMO propaganda” by Marion Nestle, a prominent nutrition scientist at NYU who was interviewed for it. In response to Nestle’s tweet on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bruce Chassy, Calgene, Charles Benbrook, David Shaw, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Food Evolution, Fred Gould, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, glyphosate, GMO, IARC, Kevin Folta, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Monsanto, Nature, New York Times, NK603 corn, propaganda, rat feeding studies, Regulation of GMOs, Richard Feynman, Roundup, San Francisco Chronicle, Seralini, transparency, World Health Organization
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Monsanto, Henry Miller, and the FDA
I have been reading with interest various articles reporting on the trove of internal documents obtained from Monsanto during the discovery phase of a federal multidistrict litigation against that company that is currently pending in the United States. (The documents, … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged EPA, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Forbes, Genetic Engineering, glyphosate, GMOs, Henry Miller, Monsanto, New York Times, Regulation of GMOs, Roundup, Science, The Nation
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Transparent Information about the GMO Ingredient(s) in the “Impossible Burger”
Have you heard about this new non-meat burger that—due to an ingredient produced in a genetically engineered (GE) yeast—has a taste and “blood” like what you would expect from the real thing? Or, since they are already commercially available for … Continue reading
The Good News About the Bad Effort in Congress to Thwart GMO Labeling by States
The Editorial Board of The New York Times declared a few days ago that it “is a bad idea” for the United States Senate to join the United States House of Representatives in trying “to make it harder for consumers to … Continue reading
Campbell Soup or Monsanto? Who Do You Trust?
How does a company build trust? Campbell Soup and Monsanto appear to be going about it in quite different ways. As reported in The New York Times, the Monsanto Company filed a lawsuit against California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard … Continue reading
The Products of GE Technology Must be Assessed for Safety on a Case-By-Case Basis
Mark Lynas was at it again in an opinion piece in The New York Times last week, making claims once more about a so-called “worldwide scientific consensus on the safety of genetic engineering,” and calling those 17 countries in Europe … Continue reading
Rebuttal to Statements Against SB 1381, The California GE Labeling Bill
Senator Noreen Evans (D-Santa Rosa) has introduced a bill, SB 1381, which would require genetically engineered (GE) foods in California’s retail grocery stores to be labeled starting in 2016. I’m in favor of this bill because, as stated in its … Continue reading
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Tagged Bt corn, FDA, GE labeling, GMO regulation, New York Times, SB 1381, StarLinkTM corn, unintended changes in GE crops
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How Slate.com botched a story about genetically modified food
A few days ago, Jon Entine posted a story on Slate.com reporting that Caitlin Shetterly’s feature in Elle magazine on genetically engineered (GE) corn (AKA genetically modified, or GM, corn) “just doesn’t withstand the critical scrutiny of science.” But Entine’s … Continue reading
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
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