Does Carey Gilliam's book measure up against the hype, and does it carefully address inconvenient data that runs contrary to its thesis? Here is my Whitewash review.
Tag: Book Review
“The GMO Deception” is, in fact, deceptive
Recycling can be a very good practice. Re-using components of electronics, waste paper, and food scraps that would otherwise head to the waste stream can be a great idea. However, sometimes re-use doesn't bring any value. Recycling bad claims and…
Tomorrow’s Table selected as one of the top 25 powerful and influential books of 2012 that educate, inspire, and drive change
New Earth Archive – The New Earth Archive Booklist. Raoul and I are honored that Tomorrow’s Table was selected as one the top 25 powerful and influential books of 2012 that educate, inspire, and drive change Each year they identify 100…
Chat with Jeffrey Smith, Monday
On August 20th, our friends at the Non-GMO Project hosted a Facebook 'book club' with Robyn O'Brien, author of The Unhealthy Truth. I read the brief conversation after the fact, and not too much happened. There was a bit of…
Organic Transgenic Food
Even before Tomorrow’s Table graced the shelves of bookstores across America, I was intrigued by the idea of combining science with traditional farming methods. In this week’s Nature Genetics, Jonathan Gressel reviewed Tomorrow’s Table and may have coined a term…
Fruitless Fall
If Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder: A Literature Review, my recent guest post by Kyle Bailey, just whet your appetite for information about CCD, you should check out the book I happened upon this weekend at my local library: Fruitless…
One organic farmer’s view of GM
Raoul Adamchak (at right) is a respected organic farmer and teacher who is stirring up new ideas with his wife, biotechnologist Pamela Ronald. They co-authored Tomorrow's Table, a book about combining organic methods with biotechnology to produce healthy, cost-effective, sustainable…
Science and emotion
I’ve finished reading Starved for Science: How Biotechnology is Being Kept Out of Africa. Robert Paarlberg describes the social and political issues that have led to distrust of agricultural science in the developed world, and how this distrust was exported…
Reason: as in rational thought
Reason magazine has always had rational articles on technology, including genetic engineering. Their commenters are also surprisingly lucid, understanding that technology can be used to help people live better lives while also protecting the world around us. A recent article…
The new organic
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison report that "organic forage crops yielded as much or more dry matter as their conventional counterparts with quality sufficient to produce as much milk as the conventional systems; and organic grain crops: corn, soybean,…