Genetically modified (GM) food may have the potential to feed an ever-growing world population, but it just can’t catch a break from activist scaremongering. Combine misinformed propaganda with trial lawyers who want to diversify their income out of the ambulance-chasing business, and food …
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In a side-by-side comparison of organically grown and conventionally grown potatoes by researchers at the University of Wisconsin's Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems, organic spuds were shown to have higher production costs per acre and far lower yields than conventional potatoes.
In carefully monitored field tests in 1990, organic...
The PR mastermind behind the media-savvy attacks on genetically improved foods is David Fenton, the spin-meister who brought us the thoroughly phony Alar-on-apples food scare in 1989.
This summer, Fenton stage-managed 20 separate press events targeting the Campbell Soup Company and Kellogg's. More companies are targeted for attack before...
Some consumer activists are demanding that genetically modified foods be labeled so today's safety-conscious homemakers can avoid them. Meanwhile, organic and natural foods are soaring to new heights of popularity.
Organic and natural foods must be safer and more healthful, right? Not quite! Genetically modified foods are significantly safer...
The influence of the Chefs Collaborative (CC) doesn't stop at the media's microphone. CC is currently joining forces with the prestigious Culinary Institute of America (CIA), the nation's most well-known chef school, to conduct two seminars that will showcase anti-biotech issues.
With session topics such as "Chefs as activists,"...
Few food services operators realize that nearly every nanny group generating headlines with their opposition to new biotech foods also opposes most other aspects of conventional agriculture; those time- and money-saving improvements to the modern food supply that we've always presumed were here to stay.
Chefs Collaborative's organic agenda
Ah, here at the end of summer, we are back to reading about the survival of the Monarch butterfly. On Aug. 19, critics of agricultural biotech again unveiled their "poster insect" with the release of a second study that purports to show the potential risks Monarch butterflies could face...
In the last days, according to the Book of Revelation, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will bring unprecedented misery to the peoples of the Earth. At least one of these riders seems to be saddling up right now. His name is Famine, and helping him into his stirrups...
The American Corn Growers Association (ACGA) caught the media spotlight recently when it submitted comments to the United States Department of Agriculture's Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology. Founded in 1987 as a self-proclaimed alternative to the far larger National Corn Growers Association, ACGA appears to currently be focused on...
