The Green Fringe (page10)

Green Scaremongering By The Numbers

Eco-activist group Greenpeace‘s prospects just got a little browner. Perhaps a little exhausted by frightening Africans away from life-saving biotech crops, the green nuts let their mask slip…
PostedJune 8, 2006 at12:00 am

Mercury Decision: ‘Virtually All’ Mercury In Ocean Fish Is ‘From Natural Sources’

On Friday, when the scales of justice swung in California’s landmark mercury-in-tuna court case, they hit some cherished environmental dogma squarely in the face. Green groups have long held…
PostedMay 16, 2006 at12:00 am

Zambia Allows Its People To Eat

Good news from Africa: The government of Zambia, in the midst of a food crisis, has altered its anti-GM (genetically modified) food policy, allowing millions of…
PostedDecember 14, 2005 at12:00 am

Wish Luddite Vandal A Bon Voyage To Prison

French activist-turned-farmer-turned-activist Jose Bove got a ticket back to prison yesterday for his role in destroying a field of corn. The corn’s “problem”? It was…
PostedNovember 16, 2005 at12:00 am

Father Of Modern Agriculture: Activists Threaten World Food Supply

The past 50 years have been the most productive period in global agricultural history, leading to the greatest reduction in hunger the world has ever seen. The Green Revolution,…
PostedOctober 18, 2005 at12:00 am

‘How Europe Starves The World’s Poor’

“The European Union and fellow traveling anti-biotech activists may well succeed in bottling up the next wave of genetically improved crops that aim directly at helping poor…
PostedSeptember 6, 2005 at12:00 am

Glitzy Awards, Tarnished Halos

Monday’s Chattanooga Times Free Press couldn’t have put it any better when it highlighted our 4th Annual Tarnished Halo Awards: “So long as fussy and even militant meddlers try…
PostedMarch 15, 2005 at12:00 am

Today’s Activist ‘Helter Skelter’

On Saturday, a Philadelphia animal-rights mailing list circulated a message announcing a meeting sponsored by the Philadelphia-based chapter of Earth First! — the radical environmental group that…
PostedNovember 10, 2004 at12:00 am

Biotech Called A “Moral Imperative” At Vatican Conference

While the neo-luddites from Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth held a “kangaroo conference” in Africa to condemn genetically enhanced crops, a group of scientists, farmers…
PostedOctober 6, 2004 at12:00 am

Real Scientists Debunk Organic Myths

The Center for Consumer Freedom recently addressed an American Chemical Society symposium on organic food, explaining the dirt-covered money trail from organic food companies and politically-motivated foundations to the practitioners…
PostedSeptember 15, 2004 at12:00 am