one bad apple
cross posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.com One Bad Apple Posted on January 7, 2014 by Annoyed OmnivoreYou, apparently, have not been eating your share of apples. Each person in the United States...
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cross posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comGeneral Mills recently made an announcement that one of their cereals, Cheerios, would henceforth be GMO-free. As they have pitted millions of dollars...
View ArticleA Modest Proposal
cross posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comA few days ago DuPont Co., Syngenta Ag and Dow Chemical filed a lawsuit against Kauai’s implementation of Bill 2491, or the Pesticide Disclosure Ordinance...
View ArticleInterference
cross posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comIn 1998, Andrew Fire and Craig Mello discovered, or rather re-developed, a process called RNAi, which stands for RNA interference. They basically found a...
View Articlepoisoning the well
cross posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comOn February 10, The New Yorker published an article by Rachel Aviv chronicling Syngenta’s thirteen year crusade to discredit Tyrone Hayes, a research...
View ArticleAgent Orange
cross posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comWeed resistant crops (genetically modified) have been around for about 15 years. In that time, weeds have developed a resistance to Monsanto’s Roundup...
View ArticleA Corporate World
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.com“We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by...
View ArticleNyet, Exxon Mobile
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comOn March 5, the New York Times ran an article espousing the notion of becoming a supplier of natural gas to Ukraine and Europe as a means to weaken Vladimir...
View ArticleCoexistence
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comIn 2012 a USDA advisory board called AC21 (Advisory Committee on 21st Century Agriculture), under the leadership of Tom Vilsack, the current...
View ArticleWhitewash
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comThe USDA announced last week that it was unveiling obesity prevention programs at various colleges. The allotted funds amount to $5 million. While this is...
View ArticleFood Terrorism
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comThe FDA recently proposed new rules that would apply to food processors and manufacturers to prevent food terrorism. According to the FDA,...
View ArticleWilliam Albrecht, Seer
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comA reader asked if I was familiar with the work of William Albrecht, which I was not. William Albrecht (1888-1974) was the Chairman of the Department of...
View ArticlePoultry Litter
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.com“It was only when the whole ham was spoiled that it came into the department of Elzbieta. Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions-a-minute flyers, and...
View ArticleThe Good News
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comWith a folksy posting on their web site, General Mills rescinded new legal terms they had announced a short time ago. The New York Times, on April...
View ArticleContract With The Devil
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comThe first ever, stand-on-its-own GMO labeling law recently passed in Vermont, and Governor Peter Shumlin will sign it. Aside from any discussion about...
View ArticleWolves in Sheep's Clothing
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comRecently, the National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) met in San Antonio, Texas for their bi-annual convention. These meetings are designed to listen...
View ArticleHysteria
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comThere are people who openly scoff at the notion that genetically altered foods are dangerous. After all, the FDA and many other authorities,...
View ArticleSleeping with the Enemy
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comI was a little surprised when I came across an article by Kiera Butler, which exposed the dirty little secret about dietary organizations in this...
View ArticleOrder 81
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comAccording to Global Research, an independent, non-profit organization based in Montreal, Monsanto and Syngenta are successfully embedded in Iraq and...
View ArticleA Recipe for Disaster
cross-posted at annoyedomnivore.wordpress.comI used to teach cooking classes at the highly successful Oregon Food Bank. I signed on with good intentions, and did passably well at...
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