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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View Article“…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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleMcHughen 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...
View ArticleFrightening 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...
View ArticleIt’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...
View ArticleSwiss 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...
View Article“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....
View Article“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...
View ArticleLabels 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...
View ArticleThe 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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