Posts Tagged ‘organic’

Are GMOs Natural?

December 19, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, genetic engineering, genetically modified foods, GMOs, organic agriculture, select | 24 comments

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) describes itself as America’s “most effective environmental health research and advocacy organization.” Like many green groups (and health-conscious foodies), EWG has an organic fetish. Michael Specter has a great chapter on this syndrome in his 2009 book, Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet and Threatens Our Lives. The organic…Continue Reading…

Is There Room at the Table For an Organic Food Eating Skeptic?

April 25, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, ecology, environment, food, food movement, organic agriculture, organic food, select | 33 comments

Being a city boy (for all my adult life), my exposure to agriculture is woefully limited. I’ve parachuted onto actual farms in the Midwest during reporting trips for stories and every year around Halloween my wife and I take our kids to a farm in the outskirts to pick pumpkins, get lost in a corn…Continue Reading…