{"id":9533,"date":"2012-11-12T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/collideascape\/?p=9533"},"modified":"2012-11-12T08:19:47","modified_gmt":"2012-11-12T13:19:47","slug":"when-losing-opens-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/?p=9533","title":{"rendered":"When Losing Opens the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"

https://blackhillsballoons.com/available-activities/ Last week, I wondered<\/a> what lessons the food movement would learn from the defeat of California’s GMO labeling measure. I also asked (since pro-labeling efforts are moving ahead in other states) if leading foodies<\/p>\n

believe that a campaign based on junk science and fear-mongering is the best way to achieve a political goal?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://blackhillsballoons.com/bookyourflight/ It’s still too early to tell how the food movement, as a whole, will respond, but one of their biggest champions, Mark Bittman has signaled that a change in tactics is necessary. In a weekend NYT column<\/a>, he wrote:<\/p>\n

Labeling is important not so much because G.M.O.’s are “\u009dbad”\u009d “\u201d they have not introduced harmful ingredients into the food chain, and those who argue that they have are taking a position that is difficult to defend “\u201d but because once we know what’s in food we can better influence how it is produced.<\/p>\n

Diazepam Online Purchase Sensibly or not, many consumers are predisposed against G.M.O.’s; but G.M.O.’s are not exactly evil. A better choice might be a broader discussion about animal welfare. After all, Americans are also predisposed to treat animals fairly, and it could be that a struggle for transparency in livestock production would be more successful: mistreatment of animals is easy to prove, as are the many, many downsides of industrial livestock production.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

https://rgprincipal.com/chile/ Anyone who has been following Bittman’s writing on the GMO issue knows this is a significant departure for him. \u00a0A year ago he was suggesting<\/a>\u00a0that GM foods posed<\/a> “real dangers” to human health. Just last month, Bittman wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

https://www.randwickpsychologycentre.com/contact/ G.M.O.’s, to date, have neither become a panacea “\u201d far from it “\u201d nor created Frankenfoods, though by most estimates\u00a0the evidence is far more damning<\/a>\u00a0than it is supportive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

http://masterfacilitator.com/doodles4leaders/ The evidence he cites takes you to this article<\/a> by a website called Organic Authority. It is a ridiculous piece of GMO-fear-mongering propaganda that has no place in intelligent debate on GM crops.<\/p>\n

So Bittman’s sudden change of tone on GMOs (which translates to, never mind about everything I said before<\/em>) is as notable as Sean Hannity’s newly “evolved” position<\/a>\u00a0on illegal immigration. Will other influential pundits follow suit and have a change of heart on these respective issues? Time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I wondered what lessons the food movement would learn from the defeat of California’s GMO labeling measure. I also asked (since pro-labeling efforts are moving ahead in other states) if leading foodies believe that a campaign based on junk science and fear-mongering is the best way to achieve a political goal? It’s still… Buy Carisoprodol Online Continue Reading…<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2690,2724],"tags":[1059,1126,1294,1591],"class_list":["post-9533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-movement","category-gmos","tag-food-movement","tag-gmos","tag-mark-bittman","tag-sean-hannity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533","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=9533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.keithkloor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}