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Category Archives: Food
More to the Story — Top 5 GMO Myths
When you hear about “Myths About GMO’s” you can usually expect a polemic from an activist. It may be an anti-GMO activist debunking myths like “GMO’s can help feed the world” or a pro-GMO activist debunking myths like “GMO’s can’t … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food, Industrial Agriculture
Tagged agriculture, biotechnology, genetically modified, Monsanto, organic
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Wilk on Diet Change and Nutritainment
Today’s guest blog is from Rick Wilk, a leading scholar of food, consumption, agriculture, and various other topics. His recent books on food include Home Cooking in the Global Village and Rice and Beans. Rick is Provost Professor of Anthropology … Continue reading
Posted in Food
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Two Agricultural Donations
Since I do research on small farms for a living, I don’t normally find it a cause for celebration to be wrong about small farms. But I am toasting Caromont Farm’s kickstarter success and my complete wrongness. I described the … Continue reading
My First Charitable Donation to a For-Profit Business
I just made a charitable donation to a for-profit business. A cheese-maker, to be exact. This is not something one does every day, and not something I thought I ever would do. This calls for some rethinking about “profit” and … Continue reading
Decide for Yourself
The dust has not settled after India’s decision not to approve its first genetically modified food crop. In fact it has just been kicked up again today, with the prime minister accusing foreign NGO’s of meddling and activists responding that … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food, India
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Putting the Germ into Germany
A truly frightening outbreak of E. coli food poisoning appeared in Germany in May. Within a month it had infected more than 2,400 people in 13 countries across Europe, killing 23. The toxic strain of E. coli is being called O104:H4 … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food, Industrial Agriculture
Tagged agriculture, biotechnology, factory farming, food safety, genetically modified, organic, toxicology
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Feeding Hungry Indians
News today in the Bombay press about India’s worrisome food imbalance. Too much food. It seems that India’s “buffer stocks” have more than 30 million tons of wheat and rice over what they want or can handle. Having sucked down … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Biotechnology, Food, India, Population
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Why We Eat So Much Meat: Beef, Bombs, and Convenience
Why we eat so much meat is a question that keeps coming up, as well it should. The real reason is that…. well to cut to the chase, there are a lot of reasons, big and small, general and specific. … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Food
Tagged beef, distancing, feedlots, fertilizer, food, overproduction
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Golden Rice, soon. Or not.
We have a new E.T.A. on Golden Rice. Well, sort of: the institutes in the Philippines that have been conducting field tests since 2008 say they may be able to submit the needed data for regulatory approval by 2013 in … Continue reading
10 Billion People and Paul Ehrlich’s Taxi
When the U.N. announced its global population projection of 10 billion by 2010 a few days ago, it was hard not to think back on Paul Ehrlich. Prof. Ehrlich was the butterfly researcher whose books and TV appearances scared the … Continue reading
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