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| 1) | 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 |
| 2) | 8/22/08 | More Milk. Fewer Cows. What's The Problem? ref=health">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 The Post-Dispatch’s ... |
| 3) | 7/17/07 | Congress Honors Norman Borlaug mod=hps_us_at_glance_opinion">Today, the United States Congress bestows the country's highest civilian honor, the Congressional Gold Medal, on agricultural scientist Norman Borlaug. And last month, the authoritatively named Irish Doctors Environmental Association published a scathing condemnation of biotech crops in the Irish Medical Journal. The Journal ... |
| 4) | 3/27/07 | Irradiation (Finally) Getting Its Due; Anti-Tech Activists Incensed That's primarily because anti-tech activists -- like the ones at the misleadingly named Center for Food Safety (CFS) -- have successfully stoked anti-irradiation anxieties among consumers. ") That's why activists' action alerts and scare stories hint at irradiation's "unanswered questions... |
| 5) | 3/6/07 | E.Coli Update: Activists’ Deafening Silence Not surprisingly, none of the self-proclaimed "consumer advocates" who hawked that fiction last September have recanted in light of the Department of Health's announcement -- that includes the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the |
| 6) | 1/9/07 | Food Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones -- Generated by XStandard version 1.7.1.0 on 2007-01-09T14:23:53 -->From the people who brought you "Food Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (of Starving People)"... And the realistic "safety issue" -- as the FDA report makes clear -- is |
| 7) | 6/30/06 | Declare Your Independence Offending groups include, but are not limited to, the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, the Environmental Working Group, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Organic Consumers Association... |
| 8) | 6/6/06 | Consumer Reports Rated Worst Science The world according to Consumer Reports (CR) magazine is generally a happy place full of "best buy" cars and top-rated toasters -- until you turn the page and discover the food... |
| 9) | 11/9/04 | Truckin' To A Luddite Tune a> Garcia, the widow of former Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia, will open the movie this week in San Francisco along with a "Ship of Fools" featuring leading Luddites and disgraced biotech naysayers. Garcia's opening will be sandwiched between speeches from anti-technology advocates ... |
| 10) | 11/4/04 | Biotech Bans Falter While voters in Marin County went the way of the Luddite and approved a ballot initiative on Tuesday banning genetically engineered (GE) crops, three other California counties resoundingly rejected similar proposals. "It's a good day for Butte County," California rice farmer Doug Rudd told the Sacramento Bee... |
| 11) | 10/21/04 | Luddites At The Polls Despite editorials condemning such measures in San Louis Obispo and Butte counties, this misguided anti-science movement is spreading coast to coast, from Hawaii to |
| 12) | 9/15/04 | 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 of food-scare campaigns. a> And citing over-hyped scares like mad cow disease (which has popped up on organic farms ... |
| 13) | 11/11/03 | Those Unfounded StarLink Fears On November 16, 2000, activists from Greenpeace, the Organic Consumers Association, the Pesticide Action Network, the Ecology Center, the |
| 14) | 5/8/03 | SPECIAL REPORT: Springtime in Luddite Land Despite a biotech crop boom in Asia, the continued acceptance of GM foods by U.S. consumers and European governments, a report from the UK's Royal Society that ... |
| 15) | 4/30/03 | Anti-Biotech 'Tom'-Foolery The Washington Post recently ran an epic, front-page article about genetically modified wheat, focusing on the story of Tom and Gail Wiley. Tom Wiley has told the Associated Press that he is "really on a mission" to denigrate crop biotechnology. This "mission" is bankrolled by |
| 16) | 11/20/02 | Is organic agriculture a ticking time bomb? Bad news abounds for organic-only food activists, as the director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Food Issues told the British Crop Protection Council this week that organic farming on a global basis “would be an environmental catastrophe. In the United Kingdom, no anti-organic monolith, the Food Standards ... |
| 17) | 11/6/02 | ELECTION UPDATE: Labels? We Don’t Need No Stinking Labels! (for now…) In an election characterized by changing leads and close calls, Oregonians delivered And the misnamed Center for Food Safety (CFS), funded largely by “natural” food companies and |
| 18) | 10/29/02 | Oregonians not fooled by green food scare Next Tuesday, Oregon voters will be asked to decide whether or not to force food companies to label foods that were prepared using genetically improved methods, “even if the final product shows no trace of biotech ingredients. ” Andrew Kimbrell of the misnamed Center for... |
| 19) | 10/16/02 | Preaching to the organic, anti-corporate choir Andrew Kimbrell, who leads the organic food-funded (and misnamed) Center for Food Safety, presented a “book reading” from his latest opus Fatal Harvest, along with Michael Sligh of the Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) and Wes Jackson, who founded the Land Institute. Fatal Harvest was bankrolled by the |
| 20) | 10/14/02 | Oh… you meant that organic food… ” Gussow, by the way, is an “overseer” of the Chefs Collaborative and sits on the advisory board of the misnamed Center for Food Safety. She is also a director of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, a $75 million philanthropy that ... |
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