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In The News: Everybody's Favorite Evil Corporation

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 [...]

What You Don't Know About Olive Oil

Of all the products on the supermarket shelf, one that has always concerned me very little is olive oil. This, after all, is a straightforward product, unlike so many of the highly processed, food-industry offerings with their long lists of mystery ingredients. Olive oil is simple and wholesome, its healthful properties well known for thousands [...]