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If GM Crops Provide More Food, That's a Good Thing, Right?

Order Valium Online What drives opposition to genetically modified crops?  Well, there are a bunch of enduring myths, which Dan Charles at NPR did a nice job of debunking. But I think the reasons mostly come down to unfounded fear (frankenfoods!) and distrust/hatred of multi-national corporations (Monsanto!).   One GMO critic has just revealed a reason I hadn’t…Continue Reading…

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Peak Everything Prophet Downgrades Peak Oil?

https://drreddyfamilydoctors.com/womans-health/ Jeremy Grantham is a fascinating dude. He is a highly successful capitalist who blames capitalism for killing the planet. If you’re familiar with this “connoisseur of [market] bubbles,” as the New York Times referred to him in a profile, it’s probably due to his increasingly Malthusian outlook. In 2011, he warned that “accelerated demand” from developing countries was depleting the…Continue Reading…

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Why Organic Advocates Should Love GMOs

https://www.munshinegroup.com/home-nonprofit/clients/ Adapted from the new book The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Ramez Naam What if there was a way to farm that spared the rainforests, cut down on toxins in our soil and waters, and provided healthier, more nutritious food? Sounds like organic farming, right?  But actually, it’s GMOs….Continue Reading…

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About That Global Warming Pause

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GMO Worry Warts: This is Your Brain on Ignorance and Ideology

Order Ultram Online The biotech discourse is infected with a bugaboo spread by both fringe types and mainstream influentials. It is the belief that GMO foods are deadly or potentially harmful. Two illustrative examples of this mindset recently appeared on the same day.

An NYU Panel Debate on GMO Labeling

Bernie Mooney, who writes the excellent Contrary to popular Belief blog, has contributed a guest post: Last Thursday, the NYU Global Center for Academic & Spiritual Life,  in conjunction with GMO Free New York held a panel debate called GMO Labeling: Do We  Need It? It was a civilized discussion, but the deck was stacked. The panel included moderator/journalist…Continue Reading…

Study: Nuke Power Has Saved Millions of Lives. Media Yawns.

When James Hansen, the newly-retired NASA scientist talks, people who care deeply about energy and climate change pay attention. For example, when Hansen says “game over” for the climate if Canada’s oil sands get developed, people take to the streets. When he publishes a study that says global warming has caused recent heat waves and…Continue Reading…

Can We Let Go of Mother Nature?

One of the first and best critiques I read of contemporary environmentalism appeared in a well known progressive magazine. The author took the green movement to task for its romanticization of nature and “its deep suspicion of all things technological.”  He also criticized environmentalism’s demonization of biotechnology and the “crusade” waged against it, which he…Continue Reading…

Anti-GMO Attitudes on the Left and Right

https://advogadoemresende.com/audiencia-publica-maes-em-carcere/ If you follow public debate on genetically modified foods, you know that Monsanto is routinely portrayed as the devil’s spawn. The multinational agricultural company is the arch-villain in the GMO wars. In liberal and environmental media stories, Monsanto is the baddie that poisons the earth with impunity and monopolizes the global seed market. Indeed, as…Continue Reading…

Why Are Greens Seduced by Anti-Biotech Charlatans?

Purchase Xanax Online To understand just how mainstream anti-GMO sentiment is within environmentalism, check out this event held several weeks ago at Audubon’s educational center in Greenwich, Connecticut. The promo: Two films and speakers about genetically engineered seeds; the history & future of farming; and why leading scientists think GMOs threaten human health and sustainabile food production systems. I really wanted to attend…Continue Reading…