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Friday, August 17th, 2007ACSH
By Thomas R. DeGregori
August 17, 2007
Here’s Part 5 of a 5-part article series by Tom DeGregori focusing on the affects media misinformation has on both biotech agriculture and industrial agriculture.
To conclude my look at anti-technology bias in the media, let us turn to the issue of E coli 0157:H7 in spinach. Fortunately, for the purposes […]
Maddening Media Misinformation on Biotech and Industrial Agriculture (Part 4 of 5)
Thursday, August 16th, 2007ACSHBy Thomas R. DeGregoriAugust 16, 2007Here’s Part 4 of a 5-part article series by Tom DeGregori focusing on the affects media misinformation has on both biotech agriculture and industrial agriculture.Since Thailand seems to be the focus of the attack by writer Wendy Orent and others on industrial (as opposed to old-fashioned, small-scale) chicken production in […]
Maddening Media Misinformation on Biotech and Industrial Agriculture (Part 3 of 5)
Thursday, August 16th, 2007ACSH
By Thomas R. DeGregori
August 16, 2007
Here’s Part 3 of a 5-part article series by Tom DeGregori focusing on the affects media misinformation has on both biotech agriculture and industrial agriculture.
Let me offer a concrete example of structural media bias, on avian influenza.
Not long after the avian influenza outbreak in Asia began to hit the […]
Maddening Media Misinformation on Biotech and Industrial Agriculture (Part 2 of 5)
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007ACSH
By Thomas R. DeGregori
August 14, 2007
Here’s Part 2 of a 5-part article series by Tom DeGregori focusing on the affects media misinformation has on both biotech agriculture and industrial agriculture.
The media mania for “both sides” of an argument means that one has to balance informed opinion with misinformed opinion. This frequently allows the public to […]
Unfair Dairy Pricing Trends
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007Alex Avery
Recently in his Animal and Dairy Sciences blog, Terry Etherton commented on the growing problem related to the pricing of dairy products marketed as “rbST-free” or “organic”. His own observations, he stated, were backed up by recent American Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Surveys which showed that conventional dairy products are sold at much […]
Can Organic Really Feed The World? Activism Disguised As Science
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007A new study published in an alternative agriculture journal has gained widespread attention by claiming that organic farming not only could adequately feed the world, it might even yield more food and require less farmland. It is a truly sensational claim.
In science, the more sensational the claim, the more robust the evidence needed to […]
Maddening Media Misinformation on Biotech and Industrial Agriculture
Monday, August 13th, 2007ACSH
By Thomas R. DeGregori
August 13, 2007
Here’s Part 1 of a 5-part article series by Tom DeGregori focusing on the affects media misinformation has on both biotech agriculture and industrial agriculture.
Media bias is a charge that one often hears when a group gets less than favorable coverage. There are arguments about whether there is media bias […]
Marketers are putting the ‘BS’ into rBST
Sunday, August 12th, 2007The Augusta Chronicle
Damon Cline
August 12, 2007
Excerpt…
Milk from rBST-treated cows is safe for human consumption and has not been found to be different from milk from non-treated cows.
– U.S. Food and Drug Administration position statement of March 16, 1994
You might have heard about the recent decision by Kroger Co. to stop selling milk produced by dairies […]
Letter: Growth hormone scare is overblown
Sunday, August 12th, 2007The Augusta Chronicle
Mark Tribby, D.V.M.
August 12, 2007
Excerpt…
I read with disappointment the announcement in The Augusta Chronicle recently by the Kroger Co. that they would no longer sell milk from cows that have been treated with rBST (a.k.a. recombinant bovine somatotropin, or growth hormone sold under the brand name Posilac). The reason stated was that customers […]
Great Rivers White Paper
Friday, August 10th, 2007Download Report (PDF)
The great river valleys have always been the key cradles of civilization, and the great river valleys may always be at the heart of human societies. The great river valleys had the world’s richest hunting grounds. They gave birth to the world’s first farms and then to the cities that produced the doctors […]