The influential science journal Nature has declared that a report on genetically improved corn growing in Mexico “was not well researched enough and should not have been published,”…
With the “obesity epidemic” spurring calls for fat taxes and a continuing flood of often-baseless “latest studies,” now more than ever it is essential to stand up for consumer…
Family farms benefit from genetic improvement technologies, Reuters reports. Iowa corn grower Bill Horan of the National Corn Growers Association says that biotech is “a potential lifeline for…
The International Foundation for the Conservation of Natural Resources asks: “Who are the NGOs?” And how did these “non-governmental organizations” get so powerful? “They are yesterday’s…
“A self-righteous animal-rights group is trying to scare children” away from drinking milk, The Edmonton Sun declared last fall, commenting on PETA’s schoolyard scare campaign against milk. PETA went…
A group calling itself the “GE Free Markets Coalition” (which attacks both freedom and markets) released a hit list of “supermarket campaign targets” for 2002. The coalition, which…
Columnist Jon Entine responds to the Organic Consumers Association-linked campaign against Starbucks and milk in Canada: “While consumers might believe milk is good for you, organic activists allege…
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), an animal-rights front group with ties to violent extremists, now advises parents that the best way to promote strong bones in…
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says the “Tides Center does routine business for nonprofits” like taking care of distracting day-to-day operations. But Tides, which has just opened a Pittsburgh branch,…
Greenpeace, which has been involved in activist vandalizing of grocery store products with the slapping-on of “biohazard” stickers on genetically improved foods, now calls for rejecting…
