42 search results for “golden rice” (page3)

Genetic Scaremongers Defy ‘Reason and Conscience’

In a sternly worded editorial this morning, USA Today argues that genetically modified foods represent “minimal risk,” and therefore “denying the food to starving people defies reason and conscience.”…
PostedMay 26, 2004 at12:00 am

SPECIAL REPORT: Springtime in Luddite Land

We’ll say this much about activists who devote their lives to opposing genetically modified (GM) foods: they don’t let a little thing like reality slow them down. Despite a…
PostedMay 8, 2003 at12:00 am

Progress vs. Propaganda

Genetically improved foods are “even safer than conventional plants and foods,” the European Union has officially declared. Biotech products can save lives in developing nations, according to the…
PostedMay 23, 2002 at12:00 am

Greenpeace’s Black Heart

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…
PostedFebruary 20, 2002 at12:00 am

Celebrity-chef nannies still serving up doom and gloom

Greg Critser writes in The Washington Monthly (“Mean Cuisine,” July/August issue) that today’s celebrity chefs have made it their mission “to school the country–or at least its aspiring elites–on…
PostedJuly 11, 2001 at12:00 am

Biotech gains momentum despite activist opposition

Although dozens of foundation-funded activist groups have loudly warned of a global meltdown over transgenic foods, American farmers see the demand for biotech crops booming. In some cases, acreage sown…
PostedJuly 10, 2001 at12:00 am

Anti-Corporate Culture Dominates San Diego Protests

San Diego’s anti-biotech protesters have certainly given us a dose of low comedy this week. On one street corner, animal-rights zealots from PETA were turning a Burger King lunch counter…
PostedJune 26, 2001 at12:00 am

Which Way Is The Wind Blowing

Greenpeace issued a press release on Friday blasting genetically improved rice that could save thousands of children from blindness and death, a.k.a. “Golden Rice.” In response, the creator of…
PostedFebruary 12, 2001 at12:00 am

2000 ‘Tarnished Halo’ Awards

The only thing we have left to say about 2000 is that it was a good year for the nannies – those activists, organizations and bureaucrats who work tirelessly to…
PostedFebruary 1, 2001 at12:00 am

Cooking Up a Storm!

Few food services operators realize that nearly every nanny group generating headlines with their opposition to new biotech foods also opposes most other aspects of conventional agriculture; those time- and…
PostedSeptember 1, 2000 at12:00 am