By Paul Cooper on January 15th, 2010
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 [...]
By Paul Cooper on August 4th, 2009
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 [...]
By Paul Cooper on July 27th, 2009
A few months ago, in the early days of Twitter, an interesting thing happened. Twitter was pregnant with inclusive, bipartisan promise way back then. The future looked bright, like M.J. circa 1988 or Britney before she married K-Fed. Here’s what happened: some of the PR folks at Monsanto responded to the many angry attacks on [...]
By Paul Cooper on July 8th, 2009
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 [...]