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| 9/24/09 |
Feeding the Future World
In case you missed it, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced important news yesterday. According to FAO, by 2050 the world will need 70 percent more food (compared to what we produce today)...
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| 9/17/09 |
Come on Down to the Farmers Market (Bring Your Wallet and Your Food Orthodoxy)
In the mood for a bacon-gouda scone? A $5 pint of raspberries? Some $11-per-pound pork chops? How about the $4 bunch of parsnips? Well, you’re in luck: First Lady Michelle Obama has just cut the...
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| 9/14/09 |
Norman Borlaug, R.I.P.
We read with sadness that Norman Borlaug, leader of the Green Revolution, passed away yesterday. Borlaug, called “the man who fed the world,” helped develop genetically modified organisms and spread the technology in impoverished Third...
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| 6/9/09 |
Greenpeace Called Out On Amazonian Hype
Today, online magazine Spiked is taking a scalpel to Greenpeace’s claim that British retailers of meat and leather are responsible for Amazonian deforestation. In a recent interview with the Guardian, a Greenpeace activist declared that...
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| 2/16/09 |
Anti-Technology Activists Score One in Europe
The emotionally charged controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods reached the highest level of European bureaucracy today. And a few hours ago, the first wire reports came through with the bad news: Despite widespread objections...
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| 2/6/09 |
Gourmet Activists Say They Want A 'Revolution'?
On the day after Barack Obama’s inauguration, we remarked that the President has done a service to American consumers by hesitating to base his food policies on the personal preferences of a few foodie ideologues....
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| 12/31/08 |
Ringing Out 2008: A Look Back
As we prepare to chronicle (and resist) a 2009 full of assaults on our food freedoms, we’re also reflecting on the year that’s drawing to a close. Here are some of the stories that made...
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| 12/2/08 |
This Time, a Proper Welcome for the Biotech Tortilla
Remember the StarLink biotech corn scare? Back in October 2000 a handful of environmental activist groups (organized by an organic-food-fetishist religious cult connected to the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi) used a Maharishi-related genetic testing lab to...
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| 11/6/08 |
This Week In Science Fiction: The Biotech Files
Remember when Prince Charles went loco a few months back and told the London Telegraph that genetically modified (GM) foods would bring about “the absolute destruction of everything”? The end of our global food supply....
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| 11/3/08 |
Purple tomatoes? Hurry up already!
The world of plant biotechnology is buzzing with news that scientists are making progress on a purple genetically modified (GM) tomato containing high levels of cancer-fighting and heart disease-reducing antioxidants. A new GM grass can...
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| 9/29/08 |
Quote of the Week
It’s the quote of the year, really, if you live in Kenya. Maybe the quote of a lifetime. That African nation’s agriculture minister has had enough of anti-technology activists holding back Kenya’s food supplies in...
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| 9/23/08 |
Activist Delusions, Stranger Than Fiction
We often joke that some activists seem out of touch with reality – from another planet, even. Why would anyone fight for the lives of rodents over people? Who on Earth would want to move technology...
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| 9/8/08 |
Let Them Eat Microgreen Salads
“Over-emotional,” “fact-light,” “uber-yuppie”—the all-organic movement has encountered some major opposition in the last several months. With no end in sight to global food shortages, the opposition to genetically modified (GM) foods is having a harder...
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| 8/22/08 |
More Milk. Fewer Cows. What's The Problem?
Environmental activists have been congratulating themselves left and right over the news of Monsanto’s decision to sell off its production-boosting synthetic dairy hormone (recombinant bovine somatotropin, or rBST). But as a St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist...
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| 7/29/08 |
Anti-Biotech 'Crop Crushing' Is The New Book-Burning
It’s been a scorching hot summer in the debate over genetically modified (GM) crops. As we reported last month, anti-technology activists have been in a collective hissy fit since an overwhelming tide of scientists and...
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| 7/1/08 |
Time for Activists to Clear the Dairy Air
It’s no secret that technology ranks pretty high on environmental activists’ “no-no” list. All that human progress, quality of life improvements, scientific breakthroughs, and (gasp!) greater efficiency just isn’t “natural.” So we’re not surprised to...
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| 6/19/08 |
Better Dead than Fed?
The debate over genetically modified (GM) foods is starting to get downright ugly. British environment minister Phil Woolas infuriated the eco-activists at Greenpeace and Friends of the Earthdared to publicly acknowledge that GM foods may...
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| 4/15/08 |
Food-Shortage Rx: Globalization
As the U.S. struggles with what the Associated Press is calling the “worst food inflation in 17 years” and reports of global food shortages are pouring in, new light is being shed on the politics...
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| 3/20/08 |
Score One For Reason
Country Life, a British real estate and lifestyle magazine, took the anti-technology world by surprise today with an editorial about the mad hysteria over genetically modified (GM) foods.
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| 12/14/07 |
Remembering The Food Scold Days
Many health officials criticize the modern American diet, suggesting that our grandparents’ nutrition was notably superior. In reality, most people in the ‘50s and ‘60s ate a high-fat, high-cholesterol and high-sugar diet. Local grocers sold...
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