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What’s wrong with GM food?

Fussy Eaters – What’s Wrong With GM Food? – Jonathan Jones. BBC, July 6, 2010 With the world’s food security facing a looming “perfect storm”, GM food crops need to be part of the solution, argues...

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Is Organic Food Better for You? Article by Mattern from University of...

Is Organic Food Better for You? A Critical Look at Organic Claims   - Ashleigh Mattern, The Sheaf: Univ. of Saskatchewan Student Newspaper, July 13, 2010. Full text at...

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“…if men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences”...

Sara McPhee-Knowles, a brilliant young scholar with the Johnson Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy discusses expert and citizen/consumer perceptions of risk in a paper published on the Valgen...

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How to Feed a Hungry World #hunger #food #FAO

‘Nature’ special issue: How to Feed a Hungry World – Editorial, Nature, July 29, 2010 v 466, p531-532 Full issue at http://www.nature.com/news/specials/food/index.html Producing enough food for the...

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McHughen and Wager address misconceptions around ag biotech

December 9, 2010 Here is a great article to follow up from what transpired on the Dr. Oz  show this week.  Alan McHughen and Robert Wager co-author an article in the December 2010 issue of New...

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Frightening people… simply irresponsible!

December 10, 2010 (see follow up related blog entry on the ‘Wizardry of Oz‘) The episode of the Dr. Oz show the other day on “GM / GE foods and technology” has further perpetuated common misconceptions...

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It’s a small world…full of funny names

March 5 2011 I was waiting for a flat white to be brewed at a kiosk in Canberra airport. “Is this yours?” I gesture towards a steaming cup of the Gods’ elixer that one of the apron-sporting, ‘how ya...

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Swiss consumers & choice…study with organic, conventional, GMO food

November 15, 2011 Here is a peer reviewed journal article in Food Policy (August 2011) outlining the results of a study exploring consumer choice about productsproduced through different ag production...

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“No More Food Fights” is a call to action!

No More Food Fights: Growing a productive food and farm conversation by Michele Payn-Knoper Agriculture and food production practices are often misunderstood by the public and maligned in the media....

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“10 ‘reasoned’ responses” to “10 reasons we don’t need #GMOs”

You may have run across this article “10 Reasons We Don’t Need GM Foods” on the FoodConsumer website.  It’s been making its rounds on social media (Facebook and Twitter). I would like to address some...

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Labels and other ‘Krafty’ Stuff #mythbusting101

I am a huge fan Kraft Mac n’ Cheese (AKA ‘KD’). When I was young, broke and living on my own, it was a food ‘staple’.  As a household, now, we probably consume only about 6 boxes per year. Times...

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The Right to Know What I'm Eating

Reblogged from The Food Ethics Blog: In the debate over the labelling (or non-labelling) of genetically-modified foods, one of the most common refrains is that consumers "have a right to know" what...

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