Archive for 2007
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2007“I read a piece by Dennis Avery in today’s Minneapolis Star. Dennis expressed concern that ‘organic farms may have concentrated themselves on steep hilly land that is prone to mudslides.’ I have visited many farmers in the Upper Midwest and I can say without reservation that this assertion is incorrect. Their losses are not due […]
Jeffrey Smith – A Highest Flying Activist’s Hidden Scientific Beliefs?
Monday, September 17th, 2007By Alex Avery
Jeffrey Smith has been a dedicated activist against agricultural biotechnology at least since 2003, when he released his first self-published anti-biotech book Seeds of Deception. His second book, Genetic Roulette, was released in 2007, complete with a forward by former UK Environment Minister Michael Meacher. We wonder if Mr. Meacher knows who he […]
Be a Vegan or Else!
Friday, September 14th, 2007The Conservative Voice
by Alan Caruba
September 14, 2007
To put it quite simply, unless you and everyone else becomes a vegetarian or adopts the vegan (no animal products, period!) lifestyle, the Earth is going to come to an end or you will probably die from some horrid disease.
Sound extreme? Sound just a bit nutty? Not according to […]
Challenge to Scientific Consensus on Global Warming: Analysis Finds Hundreds of Scientists Have Published Evidence Countering Man-Made Global Warming Fears
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Washington, D.C., A new analysis of peer-reviewed literature reveals that more than 500 scientists have published evidence refuting at least one element of current man-made global warming scares. More than 300 of the scientists found evidence that 1) a natural moderate 1,500-year climate cycle has produced more than a dozen global warmings similar to ours […]
“Organic Abundance” Report: Fatally Flawed
Thursday, September 6th, 2007The recent report from Catherine Badgley et al. at the University of Michigan (Renewable Agriculture and Food Systems, July, 2007) claimed that “organic agriculture has the potential to contribute quite substantially to the global food supply” and said “organic methods could produce enough food on a global per capita basis to sustain the current human […]
Organic Farms Suffering Mudslides
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007A new danger has beset the nation’s struggling organic farms—too much rain. Hundreds of organic farms in southwestern Wisconsin and southeast Minnesota were drenched by a foot of rain in late August. The heavy downpour washed out plantings, eroded soil, and damaged fences and buildings. The owner of Wisconsin’s Harmony Valley Farm estimated his damages […]
Testing Produce Won’t Stop Deadly E. Coli
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007Mr. Will Daniels oversees food safety at Earthbound Farm in Salinas, CA—the company that last year grew and packaged the bagged spinach that killed three people, including a 2-year-old boy, due to contamination with E. coli 0157 bacteria. The spinach also sickened at least 200 other people, many with serious kidney failure.
“We thought we […]
ACSH Agrees rbST-Free Milk Marketing Misleading
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007ACSH
By Ruth Kava, Ph.D., R.D.
August 29, 2007
Both the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have ruled that companies that sell milk and other dairy products may state that the milk comes from cows that were not treated with recombinant bovine somatatropin (rBST)
http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.320/pub_detail.asp. This bioengineered hormone is identical to the one […]
Anti-Biotech Wactivist Group Forced to Retract Libelous Accusation
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007AgBioView
Andrew Apel, guest editor
August 22, 2007
Propaganda, Fraud and Libel
A long-standing dispute between scientists and activists over a scholarly paper has recently resulted in several embarrassing defeats for the activists.
The dispute began with the 2003 publication by the British Food Journal of “Agronomic and consumer considerations for Bt and conventional sweet-corn”, authored by Douglas A. Powell, […]
Ecologist: “Increased Use of Biomass Fuels Criminal”
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Our fear of global warming has now become the biggest threat to the world’s wildlife and forests, warns Jesse Ausubel, one of the nation’s pioneer ecologists.
American farmers are clearing trees and draining wetlands to grow millions more acres of corn for ethanol, even though the United States would need to plant corn on virtually all […]