I just received word* that a special webcast will be happening tomorrow, Friday the 12th, called Now Serving 9 Billion: Global Dialogue on Meeting Food Needs for the Next Generation. The webcast will occur from 10 am-12 pm U.S. Eastern…
Tag: Food
Talked with Pollan, not too much, mostly about plants.
Anastasia was on the ball the other night with publishing her review of our evening with Michael Pollan. Mine comes a little late but not too little. We had all weekend to prepare our thoughts for what we wanted to…
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The Right to Know: Why GMO Labeling Law Isn’t So Black and White
By Rob Hebert Consumer advocacy groups are a strange animal. It seems that for every influential lobbying group with a senator's ear, there are hundreds or thousands with only vague mission statements and no clear agenda for attaining their stated…
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Biofortified Lettuce not a Bitter Pill
Calcium is the most abundant mineral in the human body, and most of it is found in our bones and teeth. Without this element to form the hard structures of our bodies, life as we know it as mammals would…
Cotton like Candy
Or Cottonseed you can Eat thanks to Genetic Engineering. A few years ago, I read about a research group that had used genetic engineering to remove a poisonous compound from cotton seed. Now, it seems, they are one step closer…
Are GMOs a plot to rule the world?
Editor's note: The following post was part of an April Fools Joke. Go here for more details. By William Harvey: Hello readers, I am William Harvey, the Director of Global GMO Policy at Greenpeace International. In exchange for support of…
World Food Prize Day
Today was the World Food Prize Symposium, where policy makers from around the world meet to discuss world food problems. The prize was started by Norman Borlaug. His took the idea of hybrids from corn production in Iowa (where he…