By now the hive mind has undoubtedly found your little corner of the Internet and informed you of the latest little food flap. The International Journal of Biological Sciences published a study, which is apparently (says Marion Nestle) full of inscrutable sciency sort of talk, but which concludes by claiming that certain “GM maize varieties [...]
|
|||||
|
Norman Borlaug If you haven’t read about Norman Borlaug you can get quickly caught up here and here and here. I’ll extract a key bit from the article in The Age: ”Some of the environmental lobbyists of the Western nations are the salt of the Earth, but many of them are elitists,” [Borlaug] told the [...] September 15th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, borlaug, gmo, sustainability | Category: Agriculture, GMOs | One comment - Add yours
So you’re not a fan of genetically engineered food. What can you do about it besides buying organic? Well, recently I bloggified the results of several weeks worth of research on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the course of doing all that research I got a pretty good sense of what would most annoy GMO-peddling [...] August 4th, 2009 | Tags: Agriculture, food, gm, gmo, monsanto, slowfood | Category: GMOs | Leave a comment
The air was warm and stagnant. Flies bounced lazily off the windowpanes. Attorneys wiped sweat from their brow. Canada farmer Percy Schmeizer stood nervously as the judge entered the courtroom and prepared to deliver the verdict. Okay, that’s not what actually happened. I wasn’t there. That’s just how I imagine it. In 2004 the Supreme Court [...] |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 Conscious Cook - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
