Wegmans’ Supermarkets has announced a new line of meatless alternatives: Don’t Be A Piggy, Don’t Have A Cow, and Don’t Be Chicken; mock sausage, beef and…
Category: The GMO Blog
Last night I read the Scientific American article (Are Engineered Foods Evil?, by David H. Freedman), including the editorial (Science Agenda, by “the Editors”) at the…
The fact that the Biotech Industry Trade Association has taken a public stance is very significant; it means that they have realized they have to “fight…
As an advocate for the mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods, it is concerning to me that so many people are still in the dark about…
For the past eight years the honeybee population has mysteriously been dying off in what is referred to as CCD, or Colony Collapse Disorder. Over 30%…
That’s with a Ph, as in Pharmaceuticals. This biotech process uses genetic engineering to insert genes of pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would not…
Proposition 37, the Mandatory Labeling of Genetically Engineered Food Initiative, was on the ballot November 6th in the state of California. It allowed citizens to vote directly…
Until recently, “GMOs” was an unfamiliar acronym to most Americans. Genetically modified and genetically engineered were scientific terms that seemed to belong in a laboratory, not…
Recently a friend came over and I offered to make us a snack. But when I half-jokingly waved the bag of popcorn and said, “Look,…