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The Washington Post features Slow Food movement founder Carlo Petrini railing against everything from fast food to genetically improved foods to conventional agriculture.

The National Academy of Sciences, The Royal Society of London, the national academies of science of Brazil, China, India, and the Third World Academy of Science all agree that without…

Scientists have been able to trigger human immunity to the Norwalk virus - the leading cause of food-borne illness in the United States - by a vaccine genetically engineered into a common potato. Nannies opposed to genetically improved foods will undoubtedly try to keep this spud off your plate.

The Nation magazine gives an overview of what happened and what to expect from the anti-everything coalition of nannies that developed during the World Trade Organization protests in Seattle.

British nannies are running amok on the interests of the country’s food and agriculture industries. The Co-op supermarket chain has announced that it will no longer advertise products that are…

Anti-milk zealot, Robert Cohen, announced a “whistleblowing” campaign at the Animal Rights 2000 National Conference being held this week in Washington, DC. He has encouraged activists to blow whistles…

Dr. Michael Breen writes in the Chicago Sun-Times that even the foods that are considered "bad" for us "can have a place in our diets." He goes on to write of the virtues of caffeine, nicotine, chocolate, artificially flavored foods, and soda. ("Even your vices can do some good," Chicago Sun-Times, 6/18/00.)

As we warned, the anti-choice nannies from Greenpeace are intensifying their efforts against genetically modified foods in California. A committee of San Francisco’s city council passed a resolution on Tuesday…

In what appears to be a nanny-inspired last-ditch effort to find a link between genetically modified (GM) foods and disease, the British government has asked retailers to provide information…

Wellington New Zealand’s Evening Post reports that scientists are speaking up to set the record straight on the safety of genetically engineered (GE) food. Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry scientist…