Posts Tagged ‘food’

The Food Babe Takes on Her Critics

December 8, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in food, food movement, pseudoscience | 56 comments

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Banging the Drum on Science When It Fits Your Tune

October 28, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, biotechnology, science, science communication | 48 comments

http://www.amandasatoz.com/?page_id=1536 In her last big superlative GMO story, New York Times reporter Amy Harmon wrote: Scientists, who have come to rely on liberals in political battles over stem-cell research, climate change and the teaching of evolution, have been dismayed to find themselves at odds with their traditional allies on this issue. Some compare the hostility to G.M.O.s… Continue Reading…

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Where to Find Smart, Thoughtful Journalism on Agriculture

September 5, 2014 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture | 12 comments

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How to Kick Your Oreo Addiction

October 29, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in food | 4 comments

https://plazadelencuentro.com/livros/ As I was plowing through my secret stash of Oreos today, I remembered this news from earlier in the month: Connecticut College students and a professor of psychology have found “America’s favorite cookie” is just as addictive as cocaine – at least for lab rats. And just like most humans, rats go for the middle… Continue Reading…

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The Zen of Chicken Coops

July 24, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, farming, select | 19 comments

When I was a boy growing up on suburban Long Island in the 1970s, my grandfather had a chicken coop enclosed behind a mesh wire fence in his West Babylon backyard.  Like many of his generation seared by the 1930s depression, he developed a self-reliance and waste-not ethic (dare I leave food on my dinner… https://blackhillsballoons.com/bookyourflight/ Continue Reading…

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Teaching the Controversy

January 15, 2013 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, biotechnology, environment, GMOs, select | 1 comment

When it comes to evolution, no reputable museum would dare “teach the controversy,” a catchphrase used as a ploy by creationists some years back, when they tried to put “intelligent design” on an equal scientific footing with evolutionary biology. The biotech issue, which is a source of much controversy in environmental and food circles, is… Continue Reading…

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Lab Meat on the Menu?

September 7, 2011 by Keith Kloor | Filed in agriculture, animals | 12 comments

https://dinoeliadis.com/schedule-time/ Would you eat a hamburger that was grown in a test tube? How about a chicken nugget from a petri dish? Sometimes called “shmeat” (as in, a sheet of lab-grown meat), in vitro meat might someday be an option for people with carnivorous inclinations who aren’t wild about the idea of killing and eating real… https://worklivelaos.com/img_8751/ Continue Reading…

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The Killer Diet

November 16, 2009 by Keith Kloor | Filed in climate change, environmentalism, food | No comments

https://andiroberts.com/leadership-questions/ It’s hell on the planet, sadistic to our fellow creatures, and bad for your health. Nothing in this WaPost essay is new, but the main point is worth pondering: What I eat influences you. What you eat influences me. Our diets are deeply, intimately and necessarily political.

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