{"id":13143,"date":"2014-05-14T11:26:14","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T15:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=13143"},"modified":"2014-05-14T11:26:14","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T15:26:14","slug":"blowback-anti-gmo-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=13143","title":{"rendered":"Blowback from the Anti-GMO Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://castlehomecomfort.com/drain-cleaning/">https://castlehomecomfort.com/drain-cleaning/</a> I&#8217;m not feeling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/view\/2014\/05\/13-6\" target=\"_blank\">the love<\/a>:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p> 
<a href="https://forgive123.com/contact/"></a> Journalist Keith Kloor,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_observatory\/keith_kloor_genetically_modifi.php?page=all\">always a busy beaver<\/a>\u00a0advancing the biotech industry\u2019s agenda, linked to Food &amp; Water Watch in a recent blog,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/2014\/05\/09\/gmo-fear-train-left-station\/#.U3E8W-ZdUar\">portraying us as part of the \u201cGMO Fear Train\u201d<\/a>\u00a0that\u2019s going off the tracks.<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://dentalprovidence.com/endodontic-surgery/">https://dentalprovidence.com/endodontic-surgery/</a> His post centered on New York Times\u2019 writer Mark Bittman\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/07\/opinion\/bittman-leave-organic-out-of-it.html?_r=2\">recent statement<\/a>\u00a0that GMOs are \u201cprobably harmless,\u201d a stance\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/blogs\/another-view-on-mark-bittmans-recent-note-to-food-activists\/\">Food &amp; Water Watch criticized last week as hollow and shortsighted<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> 
<a href="https://ramedicare.com/bundle-packs/"></a> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-FsU3TL206xQ\/UPLM5F6AiFI\/AAAAAAAAAek\/Dzm73ofPMxo\/s1600\/BusyBeaverBook.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"393\" \/><\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="https://alpineinterface.com/hiking-mountain-guides/">https://alpineinterface.com/hiking-mountain-guides/</a> The advocacy group is referring to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/2014\/05\/09\/gmo-fear-train-left-station\/#.U3OF8igwL18\" target=\"_blank\">this recent post<\/a> of mine on Bittman&#8217;s apparent turnabout on GMOs. The evidence for my &#8220;busy beaver&#8221; work on behalf of the biotech industry is a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_observatory\/keith_kloor_genetically_modifi.php?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">this CJR piece<\/a> from last year, which noted that I had &#8220;made a beat out of policing bad journalism related to GMOs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p> 
<a href="http://masterfacilitator.com/worldcafefacilitation/">http://masterfacilitator.com/worldcafefacilitation/</a> It is unfortunate that some progressive voices in the food movement are blind to their denialism on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randi.org\/site\/index.php\/swift-blog\/2225-no-health-concerns-for-gmo.html\" target=\"_blank\">scientific consensus<\/a> regarding the safety of GMO foods, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/science\/2012\/09\/are_gmo_foods_safe_opponents_are_skewing_the_science_to_scare_people_.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">as I have written before<\/a>, &#8220;they are the climate skeptics of the left.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 
<a href="https://theroyalstagproperties.com/contact/"></a> I&#8217;m not feeling the love:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2496,2724,2961],"tags":[743,929,1126,1581],"class_list":["post-13143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotechnology","category-gmos","category-science","tag-biotechnology","tag-denialism","tag-gmos","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}